Hip Roof Interior Load Bearing Walls

A gable roof is a roof that slopes downward from a central ridge to a building s exterior walls on two.

Hip roof interior 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. 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. However it is only supporting the ceiling not the roof so not a tremendous load but you do have to properly distribute the point loads you create by opening the wall to the earth.

This is a load bearing wall. 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. But there are many a wall such as this in a home that are not bearing any weight whatsoever. Roof structure types for load bearing walls load bearing walls.

However a house with a hip roof structure suggests that all the exterior walls are bearing walls. 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. Gonna have to chat with an engineer to know for sure. A bearing wall will run in the same direction as the ridge of your roof.

Yes it s clearly load bearing since you have ceiling joists sistered over the wall.