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.

Garage door header.

Cut a 2 x 6 piece of lumber and nail to the face of wall exactly in the center of the garage header. Also see assumptions for table development. 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. If you notice that your garage door header is starting to sag or has developed cracks then you may have a serious structural problem.

Garage wall framing typically utilizes this technique encompassing the vehicle doors. 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 wall floor loads. Attach lumber to the face of the garage wall to the edge of the garage door header.

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. Hows this sound will it work or sag like a old horse. Loading conditions are detailed below.

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 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. Framing up a garage door 18 wide and will carry the 5 12 rafters on 2 center 240lb a sq shingles i m planning on 3 2x12s with 2 plys of 7 16 ply sandwiched in between also i m not sure if this helps much but sitting on top of the header will be 3 2 6 s to fill in to the top plate. For each application a pdf download is available.