Help W/Hdr and Patio Unit in Gable Wall
I am to install a 4-panel sliding patio unit in HO’s Gable end (1 story) wall what now has 4 3-10×4-10 fixed windows in it.
They are looking at a 12’x6’8″ 4 panel sliding patio door unit, the middle two slide, the outer are fixed. from Milgaard–fiberglass or wood clad…
Can anybody school me as to calculate for the required header to span the 12′ over the door unit, which I will just assume provides no structural support? I understand the gable end wall is not bearing, per se.
The wall is the gable end of a 24′ wide room, TRUSSES, 5 pitch roof and a perpendicular interior wall with closets in it @ 16′ from the ext wall. Doors go in that 16′. I think there’s 1/2″ ply sheathing, then board and batten siding. 1/2 ply roof sheathing and shake roof. This part of the house is built on a slab.
Also, can anybody suggest a better 4 panel sliding unit to go in this wall? I’ve installed plenty patio units but never a 4 panel slider.
Thank you.
Edited 7/6/2007 8:01 pm ET by Waters
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Greetings W,
This post, in response to your question, will bump the thread through the 'recent discussion' listing again which will increase it's viewing.
Perhaps it will catch someone's attention that can help you with advice.
Cheers
-Thoreau's Walden
Let's try running this thru again.
bump
- Thoreau
I've put in 12' (and 16') Windsor units that worked nicely. Are the 4 existing windows ganged together under one header? If not, I'd think you'd need some sort of engineered lumber, but I ain't no engineer<G>
Good luck.
Whoever it is I wish they'd cut it out but when they will I can only guess.
They say I shot a man named Gray and took his wife to Italy,
She inherited a million bucks and when she died it came to me.
I can't help it if I'm lucky.
How'd you finally decide to handle it?
"In any weather, at any hour of the day or night, I have been anxious to improve the nick of time, and notch it on my stick too; to stand on the meeting of two eternities, the past and future, which is precisely the present moment; to toe that line."
-Thoreau
Sorry,
Didn't check msgs for a while.
I will install double LVL x10 or by 12 depending on the space I have. As well I will likely shore up the opening once all's removed and b4 the HDR goes in, one of two at a time.
Big door!