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Originally Posted by jbrown132
This may be totally wrong but I was told by the builder that there are no load bearing walls in standard Villages designs. The loads are all dispersed through the type of roofs they build. The reason for this was so they could use the same footprint for several home designs.
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You may mean no loadbearing INTERIOR walls. the EXTERIOR walls are ALL load bearing. They are carrying the weight of the roof trusses, which in most houses here extend from exterior wall To exterior wall. The interior walls are sort of loosely connected to the trusses so the walls don’t wobble, but the outer walls actually support the roof weight. Ideally, (and perhaps in all new construction,) the trusses are connected to the outer wall top plates not only with nails but with steel straps properly nailed in which make it much less likely that a hurricane will pull off your roof. It’s known as Wind Mitigation, and if you have proof that you have them, your house insurance will be much lower.