Garage Door Header Detail

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Garage door header detail.

The width of the rough opening should be 3 inches greater than the width of the garage door you are purchasing. 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. You get the picture. Free how to buy a garage door guide nationwide dealer network.

Amarr offers 300 styles of garage doors. Portal frame details within the irc specify simple span headers with a maximum finished opening width of 18. Header details 24 25 nailing on narrow face 25 allowable holes 26 bearing length requirements 26 tapered end cuts 27 multiple member connections 28 29 columns 30 31 product warranty 32 some sizes may not be available in your region. If the door is 7 tall frame the opening 7 1 5.

Header the header is ideally a minimum 12 wide micro laminated beam that spans the width of the garage door opening. For deeper depth parallam. For instance if the width of the garage door is 8ft the rough opening should be 8ft 3 inches wide. Depending on your opening the lumber width will be 6 to 8 wide.

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.