Garage Door Header Framing

Cut a 2 x 6 piece of lumber and nail to the face of wall exactly in the center of the garage header.

Garage door header framing. The procedure for constructing a header for 6 inch exterior wall framing can be modified for any wall thickness. I ll explain the process more extensively as we proceed. The beam they have specified now is 3 1 2 x 12 x 18 9. Attach lumber to the face of the garage wall to the edge of the garage door header.

This piece of. 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. Window door garage door headers supporting roof loads only. 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.

All doors are set into a frame an opening inside the wall. 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. The longer the distance a header spans and the heavier the load it supports the more substantial it needs to be. The person doing the takeoff had interpreted my request for an 18 9 garage door header to the least expensive 20 long beam.

Framing a garage door opening. Loading conditions are detailed below. I suggest you go through the entire article at least once before you start. Also see assumptions for table development.

Window door garage door headers supporting roof wall floor loads. Interior and exterior doors are framed basically the same way but interior doors are. For each application a pdf download is available. 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.

Leave at least 5 of space on the sides of the door. Framing for a non load bearing door header.