Sectional Garage Door With No Lintel Above

Ensure you have all the components shown in figure 3 1.

Sectional garage door with no lintel above.

The door should also overlap with 30mm at the top of the garage above the lintel. Ensure the lintel is level. When a garage door lintel fails it causes the brick wall being supported to sag leaving a noticeable crack right above the garage door. A 19mm square weather bead should always be fitted to the under side of the door frame lintel in front of the door to hide the top gap.

Up and over door sizes are approximately 19mm narrower and 25mm shorter to allow for operating clearances and tolerances. First thing to do is hire an acrow bar from andy hire and get that brick work back to it s level position supported. Fabricated of 16 gauge flush galvanized steel exterior these 2 51 mm thick doors offer an r value of 7 35. Having cleared out the old rotten lintel i took the measurements for new concrete wooden lintels the wooden to sit behind the.

Wall underlay turned in to door opening with flexible flashing tape to corners flexible flashing tape to head flashing upstand or additional layer of underlay. This is especially advantageous if for example the garage ceiling must remain free to store items e g. It s got no lintel as such above the door but i think it. The old wooden lintel over the garage door has rotten away leaving the brick work over to sag and bow.

Installing the flag brackets a. It s in quite a dangerous state. Equipment ladders or the door leaf cannot be stowed underneath or fixed to the ceiling due to construction reasons sloped roof low lintel or other obstruction. The lintellift system fixes this issue by adding support underneath the sagging lintel.

Sectional garage door indsordoorsconz installation instructions before you begin installing the flag brackets a. 36 december 2016 january 2017 build 157 figure 3 garage door head detail with bevel back horizontal weatherboard cladding over a cavity. Insulated sectional steel doors the insulated sectional steel door model 418 is a high quality heavy duty door that provides protection against hot and cold environments. My little old garage has had a door in it for 30 odd years it s 2 panels wide so i guess they left out 2 put in the frame door.

All sectional overhead doors need to overlap on each side with a minimum of 30mm to a maximum of 50mm on the inside side walls of the garage. The lintellift system is a patented product that ensures garage door lintels or headers won t sag.