Removing A Wall On A Hip Roof

The hip roof is the most commonly used roof style in north america after the gabled roof.

Removing a wall on a hip roof. However a house with a hip roof structure suggests that all the exterior walls are bearing walls. When you have your eye set on removing a load bearing wall you may be thinking of removing the whole wall to turn two rooms into one or maybe just removing a piece of the wall to widen a doorway or create a pass through between rooms. There are no gable ends on a building with a hip roof. In hip roof designs all four exterior walls support the ends of roof rafters so all exterior walls bear a weight load from the roof above them.

A pyramid hip roof differs from the more common hip roofs that are built on top of. A hip roof has four slanted sides unlike a gable roof that is shaped like a tent and has only two sides. Watch this video before. A pyramid hip roof is built on a square building with four triangular sides that meet at a point at the top.

First determine if the wall you want to remove is a load bearing wall meaning it supports the floor above. A hip roof is a roof in which the roof slopes upward from all four exterior walls to meet at a central ridge. This style of roofing became popular in the united states during the 18 th century in the early georgian period. These are large pieces of lumber going across the house from side to side supporting the floor roof and are generally 16 apart.

Go into your basement or crawlspace and look at the alignment of floor joists. 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. 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.