Roof Load Bearing Wall

Load bearing walls cross roof beams in a perpendicular direction.

Roof load bearing wall.

The distance in this case is 12 ft 2 ft 14 ft. There s a good chance this wall is load bearing especially if it runs parallel to a central basement support beam. Often these load bearing walls are roughly near the center of the house because the center of the house is the farthest point from any of the exterior walls. Engineered roof truss systems may be designed to eliminate the need for load bearing walls or change where the bearing walls are located.

Look for an internal wall that s near the relative center of your house. By contrast a non load bearing wall sometimes called a partition wall is responsible only for holding up itself. A wall that is set directly over one of those beams is probably not a load. The roof trusses are too long to span the whole house so the load bearing wall runs down the center of the house to support the trusses at the perpendicular intersection in the middle.

If a wall is located on the ground floor go down to the basement to observe the ceiling beams. Using this technique you ll get a better idea of the location of the load bearing walls in your house. Even without a second story the roof weighs a lot and load bearing walls bear most of the. Load bearing walls support the weight of a floor or roof structure above and are so named because they bear a load.

The exterior wall and the headers within will carry all loads from the mid point of the house between the supporting walls to the outside of the house including the roof overhang. Foundation wall gravity and soil lateral loads headers girders joists interior load bearing walls and columns footings gravity loads exterior load bearing walls and columns gravity and transverse lateral load 3 roof rafters trusses and beams. Every house uses load bearing walls to stabilize the structure and support the weight of the home above. Roof and wall sheathing gravity and wind loads floor diaphragms and shear walls.