Fink Roof Truss Load Bearing Wall

Roof trusses used with pitched roofs relieve stress placed on a roof by the weight of its own material.

Fink roof truss load bearing wall.

Also he said because there is no beam below the wall or anything else to carry the load to the slab in the basement that automatically disqualifies the wall from being load bearing because a home would never be designed to carry roof load on your floor joists. They do this by distributing that weight down a series of lines designed to disperse load bearing stress. 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. He said the chances the wall is load bearing are very small to none because the bottom plate of a fink truss is designed to be in tension not compression.

If there is a column that supports the truss found in the wall the wall still would not be load bearing because the column is taking the load. Interior walls might be load bearing or may not be. Calculate all angles and lengths necessary to build the truss. Each truss is responsible for a 2 foot section through the roof as trusses are typically placed 24 apart and thus must carry 12 on either side.

Trusses provide weight distribution for numerous systems including roofs and floors. In this roof design the exterior walls on which the roof s sloping rafters rest are load bearing walls. Photograph the trusses draw them to scale take the pictures and elevation plan of the trusses to a reseller lumberyard and ask would a new truss like that be a clear span design if yes you can remove the wall use floating slotted clips between the top plate and truss bottom cord to reduce drywall cracking.