Hip Roof Load Bearing Walls

These walls directly support roof trusses or rafters.

Hip roof load bearing walls.

The exception would be in the case of a hip roof were ceiling joists often change direction at each end of the house and a wall is run crossways to support the inside ends of the joist the ceiling joists appear to change direction directly above one of the walls. Roof structure types for load bearing walls load bearing walls. Advantages of prefabricated hip roof trusses. Firstly premade hip roof trusses span a longer distance and can do without the presence of inside weight bearing walls.

Secondly prefabricated hip roof trusses are much less expensive than stick roof framingsince they come in short lengths of 2 4 stock. Stair well openings are also typically load bearing points. Any wall on all floors directly above or parallel to a basement beam typically wood steel i beam or a basement wall must be considered by a layman as directly load bearing. Just to be on the side of caution i would install an 8ft 4x4 directly centered under the splice with lag bolts and remove the vertical.

Load bearing walls are those walls in a structure that support the weight of the structure above. The wall you are wanting to remove is not a bearing wall by looking at the framing in the attic and the roof lines of the house. A bearing wall will run in the same direction as the ridge of your roof.