16 Garage Door Brick Lintel

When a garage door lintel fails it causes the brick wall being supported to sag leaving a noticeable crack right above the garage door.

16 garage door brick lintel.

Anytime i ve done a new construction double car garage the steel is already mounted by the framers and i m pretty sure it s an h beam with a brickledge welded to it. It s bowing by maybe 1 so all the joints are cracked and they want it repaired. We use 3 4 x 6 lags and we use 16 of them in to the glulam headers. We usually have around 60 of brick masonry above them being supported we are being questioned if our lintels are thick enough.

Fortunately most houses i get are not brick veneer or i think i would shoot myself. I have some folks that have a 16 garage door opening and the lintel above is not up to the job. We currently use a 4 x6 x 1 2 lintel with a span of 204 for masonry support over 16 garage door openings. The lintellift system is a patented product that ensures garage door lintels or headers won t sag.

It s in quite a dangerous state. I have gone the tube steel route as well. Understanding that the sheer weight of this size lintel is not practical on the job the smaller sized lintels are designed to be attached the header which is designed to carry the load. Strength of steel lintels does not govern in these tables.

Sagging garage door header lift system. Longer spans such as those over garage doors should be designed by a structural engineer to carry brick floor and roof loads. The old wooden lintel over the garage door has rotten away leaving the brick work over to sag and bow. For a proper lintel to span a 16 garage door opening it would have to minimally be 4 x 11.

Having cleared out the old rotten lintel i took the measurements for new concrete wooden lintels the wooden to sit behind the. Basement garage on two story house. Many times i work on houses where there is 10 to 15 ft or more of brick above the lintel hardly limited. We have limited spans to 12 0 for economical angle sizes.