Building A Garage Door Header

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.

Building a garage door header.

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. Proposed size of garage. The procedure for constructing a header for 6 inch exterior wall framing can be modified for any wall thickness. Wide window and door openings and in most situations be code compliant for openings up to 6 ft.

This piece of. Location and size of door and window opening. Cut a 2 x 6 piece of lumber and nail to the face of wall exactly in the center of the garage header. Portal frame details within the irc specify simple span headers with a maximum finished opening width of 18.

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. Size of headers over all doors and window openings. In all but the most bizarre situations they ll easily carry the weight for 4 ft. Wide a common patio door width.

Building headers over the garage doors. Your header size is determined by the load it carries. Attach lumber to the face of the garage wall to the edge of the garage door header. Show size spacing and direction of rafters or trusses.

If you are looking to save money on getting door headers you can use materials that you may already have on hand and do it yourself instead of hiring someone to do it for you you need to keep in mind that structural support is very important and the framed wall you are working with needs to be durable. When in doubt build a double 2 12 header sandwich like we explain next. Show window and header size.