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.

Roof structure types for load bearing walls load bearing walls. A bearing wall will run in the same direction as the ridge of your roof. This is a load bearing wall. 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.

Note how the floor joists above are passing over the wall at a 90 degree angle. 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. Yes it s clearly load bearing since you have ceiling joists sistered over the wall. 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. 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. A gable roof is a roof that slopes downward from a central ridge to a building s exterior walls on two.

Gonna have to chat with an engineer to know for sure.