Wood Beam Over Garage Door

Rarely a steel or iron if very old house beam would be in there but is more common in solid brick or stone construction but unless the lintel is a substantial.

Wood beam over garage door. Tables providing size selections for various beam spans and loading combinations for southern pine dimension lumber and southern pine glued laminated timber are available for the following applications. We always build garage beams with 2x12 s and 1 2 osb usually on a 16foot opening a 2x12 with a 2x6 on top will suffice put a rip of osb in between with plenty of construction adhesive and nails and on the other side reverse the 2 x s 2x12 on top of 2x6 on one side 2x6 on top of 2x12 on the other this will leave you with a beam about 14 3 4 tall enough for a standard 7 garage door on. Window door garage door headers supporting roof loads only. The procedure for constructing a header for 6 inch exterior wall framing can be modified for any wall thickness.

Window door garage door headers supporting roof wall floor loads. 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. Continuous garage door header. Usually in a wood frame house there will be a wood header beam supporting the garage door opening the metal lintel supports only the brick facade and is bolted to the beam.