Supporting Roofs With Brick Walls

Take away the wall and i can guarantee your ceiling won t look very good.

Supporting roofs with brick walls.

In both cases the weight of the roof is. A lot depends on the roof construction. In a shed roof the rafters intersect the wall at a right angle at their upper ends and their lower ends rest on the exterior wall of the addition. Supporting brick veneer can include steel angles bolted to wall framing or steel angles supported by beefed up rafters.

One brick thick wall 40 m. Engineered roof truss systems may be designed to eliminate the need for load bearing walls or change where the bearing walls are located. The first is to support the brick veneer by a steel angle that bears directly on roof rafters. The roof rafters must be sized to support the weight of the brick veneer with a deflection less than 1 600 of the span of the supporting member.

A structural brick wall is built to actually support the building floors and roof. In older houses the roof structure often relies on support from an internal wall. Tear roof sheathing from supporting framing see figure 7 4 and rip roof framing from supporting walls. At a minimum a structural brick wall is comprised of at least two wythes of brick bonded together by bricks placed crosswise in the wall or by metal fasteners.

If you have a trussed rafter roof then the wall u may u be able to be removed with further consideration. Masonry roof systems are relatively new to the market and are being used by some builders in single family custom homes. All these roof systems are discussed herein. Supporting wall could have been a design factor when the truss was enginneered.

The loss of roof coverings and roof decking can allow water to enter a building and damage or destroy interior finishes and contents or even worse may destabilize a structure and lead to building collapse. The trusses on my father in law s house was designed to span the full width of the house even though there were walls that could be load bearing. Connecting a roof system to a concrete masonry wall is similar to connecting a floor system to a concrete masonry foundation wall in that most roof systems bear directly on. A movement joint is required to be installed between veneers supported by foundation and veneers supported by wood or steel.