Timeline for Best practice for making headers for deep (2x8) walls
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| Dec 2, 2015 at 4:02 | comment | added | alfreema | Ah just went and reviewed the advanced framing headers. Those panel box headers seem so chintzy, but great from an insulating standpoint. My layout will be reviewed and ultimately stamped by a structural engineer but I wondered what a best practice in this situation is. I better hit the header span tables again though, this span is longer than I originally remembered. | |
| Dec 2, 2015 at 3:50 | comment | added | alfreema | It is indeed very unusual. I can make 2x6 work (I have worked with advanced framing, and actually like both it and old school framing depending on the circumstance). This wall is filling in an old block wall with large airplane hanger sliding doors and the 2x8 wall just works perfectly in this case. | |
| Dec 2, 2015 at 3:31 | history | answered | Hank | CC BY-SA 3.0 |