Hip Roof Load Bearing Walls

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.

Hip roof load bearing walls.

Firstly premade hip roof trusses span a longer distance and can do without the presence of inside weight bearing walls. Load bearing walls are those walls in a structure that support the weight of the structure above. Secondly prefabricated hip roof trusses are much less expensive than stick roof framingsince they come in short lengths of 2 4 stock. 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.

These walls directly support roof trusses or rafters. Roof structure types for load bearing walls load bearing 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. Stair well openings are also typically load bearing points.

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