Garage Door Header Replacement

You can t replace a 16 chunk of it and retain any structural integrity.

Garage door header replacement. These will help to support the new garage door header. You can go with a wooden brace but depending on the load on your garage door header the sag could reoccur overtime. 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.

Step 2 replace the header. It is a good idea to sandwich 1 2 plywood or osb between the pieces of 2x dimension lumber. Push the new header into place. By using a steel beam there is less chance of a re occurrence in the 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. The lintellift system fixes this issue by adding support underneath the sagging lintel. And you do that right inside the garage door. 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.

We have an old cinder block garage shed building built in 1967 with 2 9 foot wide garage door openings. The procedure for constructing a header for 6 inch exterior wall framing can be modified for any wall thickness. Tbe row of 6 blocks have a 2 x 10 on top and a 2 x 10 below them. This header should be an inch and a half higher than the garage door and 9 inches wider than the door.

Sagging garage door header lift system. Over the years the garage door header has sagged du. These 9 foot openings are only supported by a makeshift header consisting of 6 cinder blocks sitting horizontally across the top of the opening.