Garage Door Header Replacement

The procedure for constructing a header for 6 inch exterior wall framing can be modified for any wall thickness.

Garage door header replacement.

Sagging garage door header lift system. Step 2 replace the header. You can t replace a 16 chunk of it and retain any structural integrity. It is a good idea to sandwich 1 2 plywood or osb between the pieces of 2x dimension lumber.

These will help to support the new garage door header. When a garage door lintel fails it causes the brick wall being supported to sag leaving a noticeable crack right above the garage door. This header should be an inch and a half higher than the garage door and 9 inches wider than the door. You can go with a wooden brace but depending on the load on your garage door header the sag could reoccur overtime.

We have an old cinder block garage shed building built in 1967 with 2 9 foot wide garage door openings. By using a steel beam there is less chance of a re occurrence in the sag. Push the new header into place. And you do that right inside the garage door.

The lintellift system fixes this issue by adding support underneath the sagging lintel. Over the years the garage door header has sagged du. By paul massey 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. To install the extra header jack your door up to correct the sag and bolt in the beam.

The lintellift system is a patented product that ensures garage door lintels or headers won t sag. 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. You basically build kind of a fake wall right up to the underside of those rafters to support them between the garage floor and the underside of the rafters while you do the disassembly and replacement of the header.