Hip Roof Interior Load Bearing Walls

Load bearing walls are those walls in a structure that support the weight of the structure above.

Hip roof interior load bearing walls.

Yes interior walls that run perpendicular to the run of the floor joists above and below are almost always load bearing walls. A gable roof is a roof that slopes downward from a central ridge to a building s exterior walls on two. Stair well openings are also typically load bearing points. Yes it s clearly load bearing since you have ceiling joists sistered over the wall.

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. But there are many a wall such as this in a home that are not bearing any weight whatsoever. Note how the floor joists above are passing over the wall at a 90 degree angle. 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. 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. However a house with a hip roof structure suggests that all the exterior walls are bearing walls. Gonna have to chat with an engineer to know for sure.

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.