Header Over Garage Door

Sagging garage door header lift system.

Header over garage door.

Garage wall framing typically utilizes this technique encompassing the vehicle doors. The header for a door is much like a bridge transferring the weight above it to the floor and foundation below. C to fill in the space between the top of a header and top of a wall. When a garage door lintel fails it causes the brick wall being supported to sag leaving a noticeable crack right above the garage door.

Tbe row of 6 blocks have a 2 x 10 on top and a 2 x 10 below them. The garage door header is the large piece of wood at the top of the garage which supports the roof of the garage and any living space above it. Building a structural header for a garage door opening can be handled on the jobsite and will offer the same structural support as more expensive solid wood beams. The header is usually made out of dimensional lumber installed on its edge.

Also see assumptions for table development. Sometimes cripples are installed over a window or door fig. In an attempt to construct portal frames some garages are built with one continuous garage header extending over two or three garage door openings as shown in figure a. Window door garage door headers supporting roof loads only.

The lintellift system is a patented product that ensures garage door lintels or headers won t sag. Loading conditions are detailed below. The procedure for constructing a header for 6 inch exterior wall framing can be modified for any wall thickness. Header the header is ideally a minimum 12 wide micro laminated beam that spans the width of the garage door opening.

These 9 foot openings are only supported by a makeshift header consisting of 6 cinder blocks sitting horizontally across the top of the opening. Header requirement 2 at minimum the header should be 12 wide with doubled 2 4 at opening and ceiling running the width of the door with a 2 4 in the center of the opening for the center bracket to attach to. For each application a pdf download is available. As a bonus all this extra wood provides an ideal anchor for the nails used to install wood trim and moldings especially the wide stuff.

We have an old cinder block garage shed building built in 1967 with 2 9 foot wide garage door openings. Window door garage door headers supporting roof wall floor loads. The best way to fix this problem is to replace the header.