Load Bearing Wall Roof

When in doubt it s always a good idea to consult with an engineer who can gauge the weight load affected and advise on what you will need to do in order to keep your home upright.

Load bearing wall roof.

Unsupported the weight of the home can result in buckling and an unfortunate roof collapse. Load bearing walls are critical to the structure of your home. In this roof design the exterior walls on which the roof s sloping rafters rest are load bearing walls. Floor ceiling and roof loads from above are common loads that bear down on a bearing wall.

Using this technique you ll get a better idea of the location of the load bearing walls in your house. Load bearing walls cross roof beams in a perpendicular direction. 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. By contrast a non load bearing wall sometimes called a partition wall is responsible only for holding up itself.

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. It is a structural element within a house or home. If a wall is located on the ground floor go down to the basement to observe the ceiling beams. Load bearing walls support the weight of a floor or roof structure above and are so named because they bear a load.

They typically are carrying and transferring a load from one point to another.