Load-Bearing Walls with Trusses
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What happens here
The presenter discusses an alternative scenario involving roof trusses. If a truss has a continuous bottom chord that spans completely across, it is designed to hold the load of the floor above it. In such cases, an interior wall might only be supporting dead loads like ceiling or drywall, not structural loads. However, he cautions that this is not always the case.
Goal: Differentiate load-bearing walls in truss vs. joist systems.
Tools and materials
- Pointer — Illustrating the continuous bottom chord of a truss
- Wooden Model House N/A — The structure used for conceptual explanation