Load Bearing Wall Roof

In this roof design the exterior walls on which the roof s sloping rafters rest are load bearing walls.

Load bearing wall roof.

Using this technique you ll get a better idea of the location of the load bearing walls in your house. 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. 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. Load bearing walls cross roof beams in a perpendicular direction.

Load bearing walls are critical to the structure of your home. They typically are carrying and transferring a load from one point to another. Load bearing walls support the weight of a floor or roof structure above and are so named because they bear a load. If a wall is located on the ground floor go down to the basement to observe the ceiling beams.

Floor ceiling and roof loads from above are common loads that bear down on a bearing wall. It is a structural element within a house or home. By contrast a non load bearing wall sometimes called a partition wall is responsible only for holding up itself. A bearing wall is a wall that has loads weight bearing down on it from above.

Even without a second story the roof weighs a lot and load bearing walls bear most of the.