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Structural
- Aug 6, 2007
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I have a client that wants to remove some interior wood stud walls in a single story house. The roof system is 2x4 roof trusses and span approximately 30ft. Let me also say that I have very limited experience with roof trusses and probably no knowledge of typical rules of thumb concerning design of residential roof trusses.( I specialize in custom residence and hillside homes)
I have attached the roof plan with dashed red walls to be removed.
I went into the attic at the wall line at the red cloud to the right, behind the master bedroom and I verified that there is gap between the bottom truss chord and the dbl 2x top plate. Based on this I am assuming that that wall line in non bearing.
This is located in Southern California so there is no snow load so I do not believe that truss arching would be an issue here.
My question is, in lieu of running a calculation for the truss would a field observation such as this be an acceptable way of determining if the roof trusses are bearing on an interior wall?
Thanks
I have attached the roof plan with dashed red walls to be removed.
I went into the attic at the wall line at the red cloud to the right, behind the master bedroom and I verified that there is gap between the bottom truss chord and the dbl 2x top plate. Based on this I am assuming that that wall line in non bearing.
This is located in Southern California so there is no snow load so I do not believe that truss arching would be an issue here.
My question is, in lieu of running a calculation for the truss would a field observation such as this be an acceptable way of determining if the roof trusses are bearing on an interior wall?
Thanks