16 Garage Door Brick Lintel

It s in quite a dangerous state.

16 garage door brick lintel.

We have limited spans to 12 0 for economical angle sizes. Sagging garage door header lift system. The inspector noticed that a steel plate acting as lintel beam is running over the garage door to support the brick layer above but it ended up 3 inches short on one end. Fortunately most houses i get are not brick veneer or i think i would shoot myself.

We currently use a 4 x6 x 1 2 lintel with a span of 204 for masonry support over 16 garage door openings. Having cleared out the old rotten lintel i took the measurements for new concrete wooden lintels the wooden to sit behind the. 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. I have some folks that have a 16 garage door opening and the lintel above is not up to the job.

First thing to do is hire an acrow bar from andy hire and get that brick work back to it s level position supported. The lintellift system is a patented product that ensures garage door lintels or headers won t sag. It s bowing by maybe 1 so all the joints are cracked and they want it repaired. Many times i work on houses where there is 10 to 15 ft or more of brick above the lintel hardly limited.

We usually have around 60 of brick masonry above them being supported we are being questioned if our lintels are thick enough. 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. We recommend a minimum l5x3x5 16 llv to be bolted to the wood header with 1 2 x 3 1 2. When a garage door lintel fails it causes the brick wall being supported to sag leaving a noticeable crack right above the garage door.

The old wooden lintel over the garage door has rotten away leaving the brick work over to sag and bow. I have gone the tube steel route as well. For a proper lintel to span a 16 garage door opening it would have to minimally be 4 x 11. Basement garage on two story house.