Hip Roof Bearing Walls

However a house with a hip roof structure suggests that all the exterior walls are bearing walls.

Hip roof bearing walls.

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

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. 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.

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