Hip Roof Interior Load Bearing Walls

This is a load bearing wall.

Hip roof interior load bearing walls.

Yes it s clearly load bearing since you have ceiling joists sistered over the wall. A gable roof is a roof that slopes downward from a central ridge to a building s exterior walls on two. But there are many a wall such as this in a home that are not bearing any weight whatsoever. Roof structure types for load bearing walls load bearing walls.

However a house with a hip roof structure suggests that all the exterior walls are bearing walls. Gonna have to chat with an engineer to know for sure. Note how the floor joists above are passing over the wall at a 90 degree angle. The exception would be in the case of a hip roof were ceiling joists often change direction at each end of the house and a wall is run crossways to support the inside ends of the joist the ceiling joists appear to change direction directly above one of the walls.

Yes interior walls that run perpendicular to the run of the floor joists above and below are almost always load bearing walls. Stair well openings are also typically load bearing points. Any wall on all floors directly above or parallel to a basement beam typically wood steel i beam or a basement wall must be considered by a layman as directly 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.

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.