HEADER & BEAMS | SIZING AND INSTALL FOR DIY

To provide that building weights are transferred down to the ground in a proper manner, all projects are going to have some type of beam or header installed over an opening. Sizing these structural components are essential to a safe building and need to be sized and installed properly. Check out this video and make sure headers and beams for your home project are done correctly - and safely.
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[@sambusini]

very informative. I wish all building inspectors were as nice.

[@scottpeters5105]

Great video!! Thanks very much for this information.

[@buildingcodetips]

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[@topofhill]

Very helpful! Thank you Sir!

[@joshuaburks3110]

HEY MAN. lookin good. Nice video

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Hey Cous! Hope all is well up north

[@LoriReed-we5ru]

I wish all inspectors were as helpful!
I’m in a tricky situation, on the ground floor of a 2 storey 1920 addition attached to an 2 storey 1880 barn, where the exterior kitchen wall attached to a barn was already cut for a tight stove placement. I am trying to enlarge that opening, and put a back door into the house portion. Whew! Each corner has a true 4x6 post. There are studs inside the barn wall, and more studs inside the kitchen portion. The enclosure sides and ceiling don’t attach to the barn.
I want to cut 2 studs on the barn wall for a total 7’ span. I have a 30” door to install on the perpendicular wall to the back yard, but that damn post! It’s on the left, and if I go right, I lose almost all my cabinets and counter. But there is currently no way to access the backyard!
I’m so confused. Anyone with advice?TIA

[@buildingcodetips]

Hi Lori, Am I right in understanding that there are 2 questions here? First is removing some studs in the existing barn wall to create a 7ft opening and the other is needing to cut in an exterior door on one of the exterior walls on the addition to create access to the back yard?
Typically with any opening a beam can be installed on the barn wall where the proposed removal of studs is. I would recommend going to a local lumber yard with some pictures of what you want to do and asking them to size a beam for you. This could get trickier if the floor system and roof system bear on this wall, possibly creating excessive point loads, requiring some pad footings under the beam.
For the door, what is the 4x6 post holding up? Is this a pole barn type structure, is it holding the 2nd floor over continuous footings? Could the header that will need to be installed over the door carry into the post by notching it and then the section below the header be reduced in size. This might depend on if you would be notching into the 6" side and not the 4" side I would assume. I would suggest doing the same thing as above and taking some pictures of what you have and speaking with someone at the lumber yard about post size. maybe a 6x6 would work under the header and that will gain the extra inches you need.
Thanks - Ben