Window door garage door headers supporting roof wall floor loads.
Lvl garage door header span table.
Span charts and 2012 irc building codes for girders and headers.
On longer spans the beam may require much more bearing space as indicated by this table.
According to the 2012 irc codes any beam joist or header shall never have a bearing of less than 1 1 2.
Choose the required center to center span for the beam in the span column.
If you want to build it right go with the lvls.
Beams of more than one ply must be fastened together with either nails or bolts.
Our manufacturing process minimizes many of the natural inconsistencies found in wood.
Window door garage door headers supporting roof loads only.
And the garage door header is based on a 2 car garage door opening.
Anything 5 and above we always at least double cripple.
Tables providing size selections for various beam spans and loading combinations for southern pine dimension lumber and southern pine glued laminated timber are available for the following applications.
Engineered wood products ewp lvl span and size charts.
Microllam lvl header benefits.
Header spans are typical for a window and a patio door.
Our versa lam lvl is manufactured in either alexandria lena louisiana in eastern united states or in white city oregon for the western united states.
Select the correct table for the supported floor joist condition simple or continuous see notes below.
And that s with a 7 12 hip roof avg.
The structural ridge span represents the size of a large family room.
I have seen too many garage door openings sagging after 10 15 years.
Microllam lvl headers work well in applications from window openings to garage door headers.
Includes span tables for all load bearing locations and the number of jack studs.
These charts are for 30 pound per square foot snow load on the roof.
Lvl 2 0e floor beam quick reference tables arried span to use.
Click to view table 1.
Versa lam laminated veneer lumber lvl beams and headers eliminate twisting shrinking and splitting and deliver flatter quieter floors and structures.
11 run 20 year shingles and no snow load whatsoever.
Resists warping splitting and shrinking while supporting heavy loads.
All other data is available on page 121 of the 2012 international residential code.
For other conditions such as concentrated loads unequal spans etc contact your lp solidstart distributor.
Only for uniform loads on simple single or equal continuous multiple span members as noted in each table.
Select the span carried by the beam across the top of the table.
