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.

Header the header is ideally a minimum 12 wide micro laminated beam that spans the width of the garage door opening. This piece of. Window door garage door headers supporting roof loads only. I suggest you go through the entire article at least once before you start.

Leave at least 5 of space on the sides of the door. Loading conditions are detailed below. 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. 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 longer the distance a header spans and the heavier the load it supports the more substantial it needs to be. Interior and exterior doors are framed basically the same way but interior doors are. For each application a pdf download is available. Window door garage door headers supporting roof wall floor loads.

Framing a garage door opening. I ll explain the process more extensively as we proceed. Attach lumber to the face of the garage wall to the edge of the garage door header. Framing for a non load bearing door header.

Install the header jambs and center pad of the frame using a 2 x 6 lumber for the header jambs and center pad. The beam they have specified now is 3 1 2 x 12 x 18 9. The person doing the takeoff had interpreted my request for an 18 9 garage door header to the least expensive 20 long beam. 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.

All doors are set into a frame an opening inside the wall. 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.