Rafter Roof Load Bearing Wall

Rafters 12 ceiling joists 15 hanging beams member16 underpurlins 17 strutting beams 18 roof beams 20 verandah beams 22 garage roof.

Rafter roof load bearing wall.

Coupled unstrutted ridge support. Although they don t bear the full weight load of the roof the gable end walls are also typically load bearing and an interior wall running parallel to the roof ridge in the center of the building often bears a load from the ridge. Lw trussed roof. The house s roof framing consists of collar and rafter ties with the rafter ties sitting directly on exterior walls and are also acting as the ceiling joists.

Additionally a wall parallel to and within 2 or 3 feet of the joist may also be load bearing. 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. Any joist or wall with a wall directly above running parallel might be a load bearing wall. The homeowner insists it is not a load bearing wall because the roof is built with a frame type trusses.

Rafter span tables use these tables to determine lengths sizes and spacing of rafters based on a variety of factors such as species load grade spacing and pitch. In this roof design the exterior walls on which the roof s sloping rafters rest are load bearing walls. 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. I cannot find any information pointing to the need for an interior load bearing wall with this design.

This house is a side split house and the area we are talking about is the side with no upper floors. In lower storey load bearing walls. Determination of roof load width determination of floor load width.