Failed Brick Veneer Over Garage Doors

How it has stayed up i have no idea much less how it was done.

Failed brick veneer over garage doors.

If any component is missing problems will develop. The garage wall and the brick veneer are a totally different arena altogether. The brick is sitting on the lintel so you would have to take out the door trim to get to it. Not as cheep as caulk but looks better.

You could fill the crack and wait a year to see if there is more movement. Surprise there is no lintel. The sheathing paper is needed to shed the water and keep the underlayment dry. The other nice thing is that the garage doors are not ugly metal or fiberglass doors but carriage style doors that look like they are constructed of multiple planks of wood.

I am cutting a jigsaw. As for a cosmetic correction you could cut out the cracked brick and reset new in their place. I have a 16 foot garage opening in a remodeling job whose exterior is brick veneer. Again this is attributable to builder error or stupidity.

It is only serious if it needs to be repaired. Reface your garage door with this wood veneer and make it look like a 10 000 door. It s an attractive. Bia brick masonry techniques for builders.

The wood frame behind all that brick is sagging at the doorway and has caused that crack. If the brick veneer was installed properly there should be a moisture barrier over the sheathing a one inch air gap between the brick veneer and sheathing and last weep holes to drain moisture. Or you could get an inspector out to take a look and. Sag in double wide garage door lintel beams can be tragic.

I have 5 courses of bricks above the oening. With brick filling in between and around the paths. Is it a double garage with one door. The steel angle lintel that supports the brick located above the garage door opening must be bolted or welded to a structural back up that carries or supports the entire weight of the brick.

It s a bad spot to be in and fixing problems like this could easily cost six figures. P i know this has come up before but most of the forums that i have looked at seem to pass the buck. Probably yes to both. My question is what size lintel to install.

Some wood header manufacturers will design wood headers to carry brick loads. Is that brick veneer. Longer spans such as those over garage doors should be designed by a structural engineer to carry brick floor and roof loads. We recommend a minimum l5x3x5 16 llv to be bolted to the wood header with 1 2 x 3 1 2 galvanized lag bolts at 2 0 c c.