Garage Door Header Replacement

And you do that right inside the garage door.

Garage door header replacement.

We have an old cinder block garage shed building built in 1967 with 2 9 foot wide garage door openings. 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. The lintellift system is a patented product that ensures garage door lintels or headers won t sag. Step 2 replace the header.

You can t replace a 16 chunk of it and retain any structural integrity. If any portion of your garage door header has rotted or softened due to water exposure you need in replace the entire header. 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. Over the years the garage door header has sagged du.

Push the new header into place. When a garage door lintel fails it causes the brick wall being supported to sag leaving a noticeable crack right above the garage door. To install the extra header jack your door up to correct the sag and bolt in the beam. Sagging garage door header lift system.

The lintellift system fixes this issue by adding support underneath the sagging lintel. These 9 foot openings are only supported by a makeshift header consisting of 6 cinder blocks sitting horizontally across the top of the opening. By using a steel beam there is less chance of a re occurrence in the sag. 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. Tbe row of 6 blocks have a 2 x 10 on top and a 2 x 10 below them. It is a good idea to sandwich 1 2 plywood or osb between the pieces of 2x dimension lumber.