Engineered Roof Trusses Load Bearing Walls

Support for a roof built with engineered trusses comes from the sides of the house and is distributed that way so you wouldn t need a load bearing wall in the house.

Engineered roof trusses load bearing walls.

Roof trusses support a roof s weight by transferring the weight load downward and outward to the building s bearing walls. Engineered roof truss systems may be designed to eliminate the need for load bearing walls or change where the bearing walls are located. Some spans have a lower rate per foot than others. The span in short is the length of the bottom of the truss.

By contrast a non load bearing wall sometimes called a partition wall is responsible only for holding up itself. No expert but a traditionally constructed roof needs some type of support in the form of a beam or load bearing wall in the house. We usually build on the exterior walls set the trusses and do all of the chord blocking and truss bracing before buildin. Most simple construction truss roof home s roof and trusses are supported by the exterior walls perpendicular to the trusses.

Load bearing walls support the weight of a floor or roof structure above and are so named because they bear a load. Factors that affect truss pricing and cost. For example a gable end truss may be designed with support members that transmit the roof weight load outward to the side walls allowing the end wall directly below it to have breaks or openings in it that would otherwise be impossible. A gable wall will be load bearing if there is no truss is used at this point this is due to traditional framing methods being used for end of the gables but saying that you could use a truss at that point and have the wall open but this would need to be engineered to suit the situation.