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blazinzuk

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First header question.

2 12' ft wide doors with a single man door.

Going in this opening


From inside



Am I right in thinking the header doesn't need to be much? I was thinking a couple 2x6s glued and screwed together.

Second header question. This involves preparing for future plans.

I plan on adding a 15' addition out the back. Think lean to.

I intend on joining half of it with the main garage. To do what I want it means taking out one of the main posts. Can I span a 20 ft gap with a LVL?

What size LVL

Picture.



The post being cut is the one with the shelf thing on it.

Or is there an easier way to do this?

I think that's all for now
 
For the Garage doors you will need a taller header, not for strength to hold stuff up just to allow a large enough area for the door system to attach to correctly. I would just do a couple doubled up 2X12 for good measure. For the man door a couple of 2X4 will suffice.

The Header for the post in the back will probably end up being a 14" tall triple LVL header and maybe more? If there is no real difference visible between the truss that clear spans the front area now and the last truss above your back wall you are really only going to be supporting the new roof load and a minor bit of exterior cladding load that is already there. Shear resistance comes into play here but some plywood on the inside of the remaining area will probably suffice.
 
^^^^^ What he said. For the rear wall, as mentioned, if the trusses are all the same then there isn't much load on that post. The strength/requirement of the LVL will mainly depend on what is going in the opening. If it is just going to be an opening then the 14" will be more then enough.
 
I'm not sure what I can add, but I think I used a couple of 2x12's for my header over the door. It's not holding anything up but the doors, so I can't imagine it needs much.
 
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Brandon, like usual, pretty much covered it with great advise. :bow:

I'd say a triple 14" would do great on that gable end. But it also depends on what kind of a load your putting on it. I really wouldn't be too concerned with the truss load of the main building, as those are built to carry the span. Some inside shear is a great bonus on that, as mentioned.

What I would be worried about is the span of lean to roof your going to be hanging off of the triple. Your going to hanger all of those new lean to rafters off of the new lam, correct? How far out are you thinking of going? Over ten feet, or so, you're going to want to mid span those rafters anyways, so that would help with the load. Unless you're going with monster rafters of TJI's or something. But, If you're going out 20 feet without an additional center beam inside your lean to, I'd be a little worried with your snow load and all.
 
So progress

First studs going up.



Built the wall in place as scheduling didn't work to get equipment to raise a whole wall.

Headers for over the garage doors. 2 trimmers and 2 king studs nailed and glued.


Also insulated the headers with 2" blueboard and some foam in a can

Final product for tonight

 
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