Hip And Valley Roof Load Bearing Walls

The roof lines ridgelines hip lines valley lines gable and eaves overhang lines at the ends of building sections and at junctions provide information regarding the required shape of the roof.

Hip and valley roof load bearing walls.

Its not just a frieze block anymore its holding up some weight. This type of roof is also called broken back hip and valley roof because the main hips are intconeected by the rafter of gables on one side and the rafter of the valley on the other. A hip and valley roof may be part of an irregular structure. A load bearing wall is not always easy to identify.

Some walls with giant openings and doorways can hold up massive loads. Such buildings may have more than four hips in the roofs and they form valleys at the inside corners. 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. Interior load bearing walls may also support the roof as they do in gable roof designs.

Some of that load will be transferred down to wall at the bottom of the hip rafter and some to the ridge the hip is definitely carrying a load and so is the ridge now that its a hip roof it is carrying what has been transferred by the hip rafter. Great id video here. These walls directly support roof trusses or rafters. 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.

There are no gable ends on a building with a hip roof. Stair well openings are also typically load bearing points. However a house with a hip roof structure suggests that all the exterior walls are bearing walls. 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.

A bearing wall will run in the same direction as the ridge of your roof. It is important to identify the load bearing walls on which the roof trusses will be supported in the following plan view drawings all load bearing walls are shown shaded.