Garage Door Header Steel Beam

This header spans a 6 opening and supports 4 floor joists with 2 stories and a roof above it.

Garage door header steel beam.

A beam with a 10 span carries 15 0 simple span joists on each side. Select the span carried by the beam across the top of the table. What size and guage of steel i beam do i need for a garage header. Wait it gets worse.

The beam they have specified now is 3 1 2 x 12 x 18 9. Using the continuous span floor joists table with 30 0 span carried select either 3 1 2 x 11 1 4 or 5 1 4 x 9 1 4. It weighs 31 pounds per foot of beam length. Window door garage door headers supporting roof wall floor loads.

The beam is 8 wide and 8 deep. You can use a w8x31 50 ksi steel beam for your 18 clear span beam. What you re seeing here is a header built with a 2 6 bottom plate 2 4 cripple studs and a 2 4 top plate resting on the adjacent block walls. The only added weight on the header will be 4 by 8 joists 3 4 plyw read more.

Opening is 18 ft wide and beam will rest on 2 18 by 18 posts. The person doing the takeoff had interpreted my request for an 18 9 garage door header to the least expensive 20 long beam. Lvl is ideal for floor beams garage doors window and door headers and ridge and hip beams multiple pieces of boise versa lam laminated veneer lumber can be assembled for greater thicknesses that can carry even heavier loads across even longer spans ordinary nail assembly installs as easily as ordinary lumber. On previous projects i have been supplied a glu lam boise makes specifically for garage door headers that was 3 1 2 x 11 1 4 x 18 9.

The lowest point is at the middle and it sags down about 1 2. Window door garage door headers supporting roof loads only.