Hip Roof Bearing Walls

Roof structure types for load bearing walls load bearing walls.

Hip roof bearing walls. A bearing wall will run in the same direction as the ridge of your roof. 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. This kind of roof doesn t have any vertical slides or gables.

A gable roof is a roof that slopes downward from a central ridge to a building s exterior walls on two. These walls directly support roof trusses or rafters. However a house with a hip roof structure suggests that all the exterior walls are 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.

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. Stair well openings are also typically load bearing points. 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.