Hip Roof Interior Load Bearing Walls

Roof structure types for load bearing walls load bearing walls.

Hip roof interior 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. A gable roof is a roof that slopes downward from a central ridge to a building s exterior walls on two. Note how the floor joists above are passing over the wall at a 90 degree angle. This is a load bearing wall.

Gonna have to chat with an engineer to know for sure. 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. 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. 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. But there are many a wall such as this in a home that are not bearing any weight whatsoever. Yes interior walls that run perpendicular to the run of the floor joists above and below are almost always load bearing walls. However a house with a hip roof structure suggests that all the exterior walls are bearing walls.

A bearing wall will run in the same direction as the ridge of your roof.