Hip Roof Support Walls

The exterior walls on houses that support the roof are primary bearing walls.

Hip roof support walls. Each of the four sides of the roof slope downward there are no upright or vertical parts no gables etc on a hip roof. Looking at a brick ranch built in the 70 s the roof is hip with a ridge board house is l shape configuration so 2 ridge boards and each board has a 2x4 a couple feet from the end nailed to the side of the ridge board and toe nailed into the top of the wall or ceiling joist. 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. A bearing wall will run in the same direction as the ridge of your roof.

Because i have a hip roof that slopes towards each exterior wall each of those walls is carrying some roof weight. A hip roof or a hipped roof is a style of roofing that slopes downwards from all sides to the walls and hence has no vertical sides. Not all exterior walls are bearing walls though. These walls directly support roof trusses or rafters.

There are many houses where just the front and back walls are bearing walls. 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. This style of roofing became popular in the united states during the 18 th century in the early georgian period.

Hip roofs a hip roof is a roof in which the roof slopes upward from all four exterior walls to meet at a central ridge. Dynocon civil environmental op 21 feb 17 01 50. My home is different. A hip roof design refers to a roof where the roof sides slope downwards from a middle peak with the rafter ends meeting the exterior walls of the house.

In hip roof designs all four exterior walls support the ends of roof rafters so all exterior walls bear a weight load from the roof above them. 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.