Garage Door Header Replacement

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

Garage door header replacement.

The old header came free without too much trouble. To install the extra header jack your door up to correct the sag and bolt in the beam. The garage is located in the basement level of my house with the main level being over the basement. The lintellift system is a patented product that ensures garage door lintels or headers won t sag.

Take out the header by sawing through the center piece. And you do that right inside the garage door. Before removing anything else steve and his crew built a temporary wall to support. I have a raised ranch house built in the 1970 s and i am looking in to replacing the header over the garage.

Take down any trim or any external pieces of wood which are not part of the garage door header. The best way to fix this problem is to replace the header. Step 1 remove the 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.

When a garage door lintel fails it causes the brick wall being supported to sag leaving a noticeable crack right above the garage door. Remove the old header. Find garage doors at lowe s today. Build a temporary wall.

The new header will consist of. The lintellift system fixes this issue by adding support underneath the sagging lintel. How to replace a load bearing door header step 1. If any portion of your garage door header has rotted or softened due to water exposure you need in replace the entire header.

I noticed that the header over the garage door has sagged about an inch in the middle. Support the ceiling of the garage using some lumber. By using a steel beam there is less chance of a re occurrence in the sag.