Rafter Roof Load Bearing Wall

Coupled unstrutted ridge support.

Rafter roof load bearing wall.

I am about to do some wall removal where the homeowner does not want a header between the rooms after the wall comes out. Any joist or wall with a wall directly above running parallel might be a load bearing wall. 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.

Lw trussed roof. This house is a side split house and the area we are talking about is the side with no upper floors. Visit the roof framing page for more information on cutting roof rafters and visit the roof pitch calculator for determining rafter lengths based on rise and run. 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.

Rafters 12 ceiling joists 15 hanging beams member16 underpurlins 17 strutting beams 18 roof beams 20 verandah beams 22 garage roof. The homeowner insists it is not a load bearing wall because the roof is built with a frame type trusses. Additionally a wall parallel to and within 2 or 3 feet of the joist may also be load bearing. 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.

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. Determination of roof load width determination of floor load width. I cannot find any information pointing to the need for an interior load bearing wall with this design.