What is the correct way to reinforce this? Installing garage door opener
Hello Reddit! Replacing a garage door opener. Instructions are below. It wants me to mount the header bracket in a very specific spot. This will be one of two main supports for the entire rail/garage door opener. Header Bracket Instructions Here is my current rail. Notice the giant gaping hole Current Rail Here is what it looks like when I hold the header bracket where it is supposed to go: New Header Bracket Here is a picture with no brackets in the way: https://preview.redd.it/si8tkbc65ire1.jpg?width=4032&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=a6e3cb0b3e37f9e4faf0d99e32e85b5428d4d984 Wondering at this point, how I should reinforce this area. My first thought is to find a piece of wood (or cut to size) something about a foot wide, place it in the hole, and then reinforce it using brackets like these. So it'd look something like this (excuse my art skills, I'm not an artist lol). Proposed fix Is this the correct/best way to do this? It's going to be kind of a pain in the ass because the opening is just slightly smaller than a 2x4, so I'll have to do a dangerous length wise cut (OR find a really wide piece of wood and do a single, cut across the width). And that's work that might not even be the safest way (or strongest) way to do this. Any advice or feedback would be greatly appreciated! submitted by /u/Draoken [link] [comments]
| | Hello Reddit! Replacing a garage door opener. Instructions are below. It wants me to mount the header bracket in a very specific spot. This will be one of two main supports for the entire rail/garage door opener. Here is my current rail. Notice the giant gaping hole Here is what it looks like when I hold the header bracket where it is supposed to go: Here is a picture with no brackets in the way: Wondering at this point, how I should reinforce this area. My first thought is to find a piece of wood (or cut to size) something about a foot wide, place it in the hole, and then reinforce it using brackets like these. So it'd look something like this (excuse my art skills, I'm not an artist lol). Is this the correct/best way to do this? It's going to be kind of a pain in the ass because the opening is just slightly smaller than a 2x4, so I'll have to do a dangerous length wise cut (OR find a really wide piece of wood and do a single, cut across the width). And that's work that might not even be the safest way (or strongest) way to do this. Any advice or feedback would be greatly appreciated! [link] [comments] |
