Posted by: "carmen s." mom2mini@bellsouth.net
> The headers over both French doors did not pass
> our local code for the french doors.
> The reason given was the headers were "over-spaned"
> ... what does that mean?
Hi Carmen;
To put it in simplest terms. If your header (the beam
above the door opening) is 2 2x6s, it will need to be
replaced by 2 2x8s (or 2x8s with 2x10s). The current
header (usually 2 pieces of 2x_) is not large enough.
There are multiple ways this might be remedied.
But, the most straight forward is to replace the
header with a larger size.
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