How To Put A Header Over A Garage Door

To slide the header in place steve used a spare 2 6 to push the header up and a maul sledge hammer to push the header over.

How to put a header over a garage door.

How to build a garage door header step 1. 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. Carefully measure the length of your door as the header must be at least 9 inches longer than that and at least 1 1 2 inches higher than the door. This header should be an inch and a half higher than the garage door and 9 inches wider than the door.

Go to your local building office and ask about the dimensions of the garage door header. These do carry weight. The guys repeated the process for the last 2 10 and put four nails every 16 oc. Lay a single piece of the 1 inch by 11 inch lumber cut in.

Push the new header into place. Cut three pieces of 1 inch by 11 inch lumber to the width measurement of the garage door rough opening plus 12. Header the header is ideally a minimum 12 wide micro laminated beam that spans the width of the garage door opening. As a bonus all this extra wood provides an ideal anchor for the nails used to install wood trim and moldings especially the wide stuff.

This allows the header to take the weight of your wall. Steve s crew finished the header by driving nails into the floor joists. Take some 2x4 s and use these to add 3 rows of supporting frames around the sides of the door and just below the header. These will help to support the new garage door header.