Hip And Valley Roof Load Bearing Walls

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.

Hip and valley roof load bearing walls. A bearing wall will run in the same direction as the ridge of your roof. Such buildings may have more than four hips in the roofs and they form valleys at the inside corners. Its not just a frieze block anymore its holding up some weight. 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.

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. Stair well openings are also typically load bearing points. There are no gable ends on a building with a hip roof. 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.

Some walls with giant openings and doorways can hold up massive loads. Great id video here. However a house with a hip roof structure suggests that all the exterior walls are bearing walls. Interior load bearing walls may also support the roof as they do in gable roof designs.

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. 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. 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. A hip and valley roof may be part of an irregular structure.

These walls directly support roof trusses or rafters. A load bearing wall is not always easy to identify.