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.
Garage door header framing.
The procedure for constructing a header for 6 inch exterior wall framing can be modified for any wall thickness.
Loading conditions are detailed below.
Leave at least 5 of space on the sides of the door.
The person doing the takeoff had interpreted my request for an 18 9 garage door header to the least expensive 20 long beam.
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The longer the distance a header spans and the heavier the load it supports the more substantial it needs to be.
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Install the header jambs and center pad of the frame using a 2 x 6 lumber for the header jambs and center pad.
Also see assumptions for table development.
Attach lumber to the face of the garage wall to the edge of the garage door header.
Last pull a measurement from the top of the 2 x 6 piece of lumber that you just installed to the ceiling of the garage.
Header the header is ideally a minimum 12 wide micro laminated beam that spans the width of the garage door opening.
Window door garage door headers supporting roof loads only.
Cut a 2 x 6 piece of lumber and nail to the face of wall exactly in the center of the garage header.
Framing for a non load bearing door header.
I ll explain the process more extensively as we proceed.
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.
On previous projects i have been supplied a glu lam boise makes specifically for garage door headers that was 3 1 2 x 11 1 4 x 18 9.
I suggest you go through the entire article at least once before you start.
All doors are set into a frame an opening inside the wall.
Framing a garage door opening.
Interior and exterior doors are framed basically the same way but interior doors are.