Building A Garage Door Header

Building headers over the garage doors.

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. Portal frame details within the irc specify simple span headers with a maximum finished opening width of 18. Proposed size of garage. Size of headers over all doors and window openings.

Show door and header size show overhead door size show header size sample floor plan dimension dimension provide scale sample. 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. Wide window and door openings and in most situations be code compliant for openings up to 6 ft. Show window and header size.

In all but the most bizarre situations they ll easily carry the weight for 4 ft. 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. Attach lumber to the face of the garage wall to the edge of the garage door header. This piece of.

Location and size of door and window opening. So your jack stud should be cut at 81 for a 6 8 tall door. Cut a 2 x 6 piece of lumber and nail to the face of wall exactly in the center of the garage header. The procedure for constructing a header for 6 inch exterior wall framing can be modified for any wall thickness.

When in doubt build a double 2 12 header sandwich like we explain next. If you are building a new bearing wall or cutting in a new doorway be sure to check your local building code span charts or consult an engineer to properly size the header. Show size spacing and direction of rafters or trusses.