Hip Roof Bearing Walls

Side walls are primary load bearing walls in simple gable end framing but hip roofs and complex roof lines depend on more than just the side.

Hip roof bearing walls.

Roof structure types for load bearing walls load 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. A gable roof is a roof that slopes downward from a central ridge to a building s exterior walls on two. 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.

Load bearing walls are those walls in a structure that support the weight of the structure above. A hip roof is a kind of roof whose slides come with a gentle slope and it tends to slope down toward the walls. 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. This kind of roof doesn t have any vertical slides or gables.

A bearing wall will run in the same direction as the ridge of your roof. Hip roofs require an extremely complicated system of trusses and rafters. 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.