Removing Interior Walls With Hip Roofs

But there are five possible exceptions to look out for.

Removing interior walls with hip roofs. Interior walls can also provide load bearing support for the roof system for the floors above or for intermediate support of long spans and splices in the ceiling joists. Go into your basement or crawlspace and look at the alignment of floor joists. 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. Interior walls often provide hidden passage for utilities such as hvac heating ventilation and air conditioning electrical wiring and plumbing.

I m a home builder carpenter 25yrs experience fixing others screwed up stuff. However a house with a hip roof structure suggests that all the exterior walls are bearing walls. 1 when the home has an l or t shape there may be an interior bearing wall under the intersection of the perpendicular rows of trusses. These are large pieces of lumber going across the house from side to side supporting the floor roof and are generally 16 apart.

Residentiall roof trusses are designed to bear only on the exterior walls at each end of the span. First determine if the wall you want to remove is a load bearing wall meaning it supports the floor above.