Framing Garage Door Headers

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

Framing garage door headers. 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. How to frame a garage door 1. Measure the distance from the bottom plate of the wall to a point that is 1 1 2 inches higher that the garage door height.

Together the headers king studs and trimmers act as a system that transfers weight from above down and around the window and door openings to the floor and foundation below. The procedure for constructing a header for 6 inch exterior wall framing can be modified for any wall thickness. Header the header is ideally a minimum 12 wide micro laminated beam that spans the width of the garage door opening. The longer the distance a header spans and the heavier the load it supports the more substantial it needs to be.

Framing for a non load bearing door header. Loading conditions are detailed below. Window door garage door headers supporting roof wall floor loads. A portal frame is defined as two uprights connected at the top by a third horizontal member the header.

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. The beam they have specified now is 3 1 2 x 12 x 18 9. 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. For each application a pdf download is available.

This piece of. Cut the header from 2 x 12 lumber and to a length of the rough opening plus 6 inches. Also see assumptions for table development. The person doing the takeoff had interpreted my request for an 18 9 garage door header to the least expensive 20 long beam.

Window door garage door headers supporting roof loads only. Frame the rough opening for the garage door to 3 inches wider than the garage door you have selected. Interior and exterior doors are framed basically the same way but interior doors are. 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.