Free Standing Headers
Can be used on older buildings
Need Extra Building Support
Fast & easy way to add extra support
Easy to position and layout on the building
All in One.
Self-Supporting.
Attaches to your building.
Includes - Endwall girts/wind bracing.
Talk About Free Standing Headers
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Schweiss Bi-Fold Doors manufactures the entire free standing header. You may retrofit it to your building endwall or sidewall. The free standing header is a quick and easy way to prepare your building for a bi-fold door. It consists of two side columns and the main header frame. |
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The free standing header must be attached to the building and the building must be able to support the vertical and horizontal weights of the bi-fold door. You must tie the header and side columns to your building and provide a solid footing under the legs of the free standing header. |
| WHY USE A FREE STANDING HEADER? | |
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It's a nice easy way to prepare an existing building for a Bi-Fold Door. |
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It provides a clean,flat,flush surface to attach your bi-fold door too. |
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The free standing header will offer extra strength. |
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It provides a nice straight and level place to attach your door to -especially on those older buildings. |
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It's a quick fix -It's easier than remodeling the existing end wall for a bi-fold -and many times cost effective! |
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It's a trade off -You would have to build a header up to your existing end wall and that's not free (Labor and material?) |
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Free Standing Headers are made out of 4"x 4"x11ga tubes (2 across the full width, 2 legs and base plates). |
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Larger free standing headers are made out of larger member sizes. |
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The header comes all welded together -you must field weld or bolt both of the legs on. |
INSTALLATION OF THE FREE STANDING HEADER |
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Installation is easy;attach the legs to your side columns and tie the header back into your existing building. |
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Anchor the base plates to your concrete footing with anchor bolts. |
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If there are no footings for smaller doors, just attach the side columns to your building posts or columns. |
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We provide a step by step installation manual that is very easy to follow. |
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If you want to build your own header we will provide you drawings on how to build it your self. |
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Take pictures to send to the factory of your large opening, especially for larger header questions. |
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The customer, contractor/owner and the building manufacturer are responsible to ensure that the building's structural design is capable of handling all the imposed loads that the bi-fold door exerts to your door header,endwall,and building. |
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When your bi-fold door is in the full open position,the bi-fold door tends to pull away from the building at the hinge line exerting considerable horizontal loads on the building structure in the open position. |
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Your building header design must meet standard deflection and strength criteria,both in vertical and horizontal directions to support the bi-fold door in all positions. |
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Schweiss Bi-Fold Doors will provide you with those loads that are applied to your building and door.We will provide you with our A-1, A-2, A-3, and A-4 Spec sheets for your actual measurements, movements, weights, and hinge locations.
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On A Steel Building
Free Standing Header
Bi-Fold Door is Attached
Lateral Bracing
Free Standing Header
Free Standing Header
Clear
Opening
Custom Built - Above Roof Line - Lose No Headroom
Flashing Behind the Free Standing Header
Diagonal Support Bracing
Free Standing Header Details
Flashing
Back Bracing
Base Trim
Steel Siding
Top Flash
Rubber
Trim - Side View
Bracing Back the Free Standing Header
Lateral Bracing
Building Purlins
2nd Building
Mainframe
Free Standing
Header
Building Endwall
Mainframe
To left header leg
to finished floor
On Wood Buildings
Free Standing Header
Offset Building Endwall
Lateral Bracing back to Building
Free Standing Header
On Building Sidewall
Side Wall
Lateral Bracing
Free Standing Header
Substitute Hangar Bracket
3" x 4" x 1/4" Angle Extension Bracket
(Sized per door / place by each hinge)
Building Side Column
wood or steel
Side View
Lateral Bracing
Free Standing Header
Building Sheeting
Door Frame
I-beam bolted to column
Building Side Column
wood or steel
Extension Header
Bracket
Roof Purlin
Single Hinge
On Round Roof Building
Horizontal Support
Steel Siding
Rubber
Base Trim
SIDE VIEW OF FLASHING
BEHIND THE HEADER
Extension Header
Bracket
Roof Purlin
Top Flash
On Brick or Concrete Building
Steel Plates for added strength
SIDE VIEW
Plate
bolted to
bldg.
Finished Look After Assembly
This is the way your free standing header should look after you assemble it
Field Drill
these Holes
Leg
Base Plate
Leg
Header Mainframe
Specs / Measurements
Base Plate
Bracing Back to the Building
How to tie your free standing header into the building
The customer must supply these methods of tieing the header with the building
Tied to the building
mainframe or endwall
(Not included
customer
must supply)
Tie onto the building's side columns
Not Included
CUSTOMER MUST SUPPLY
*Fast and easy way to add extra support.
*Can be used on existing buildings.
*Easy to position and layout on the building.
Lateral Bracing
Lateral bracing and side plates aren't furnished by Schweiss Bi-Fold Doors.
Side PLates (Clips)
Assembly
Leg
Leg
Slide Each Leg Against The Header Mainframe. It Is Very Important That The Legs Be Straight, Flush, And Flat With THe Header Mainframe.
Weld all around the tube
and the angle irons
Angles are pre-welded onto the header.
Base Plate
pre-welded to
the leg bottom
Base Plate pre welded to
the leg bottom
Header Mainframe
Must be Flush with Main Frame
CORRECT
CORRECT
WRONG!!
WRONG!!
Header mainframe
is flush with the legs
Header mainframe
is flush with
the legs
Header
mainframe is
flush with the legs
Straight,
Flush and Flat
Legs aren't resting flush
with the header mainframe.
Attaching The Legs to Concrete Footing
Existing Building Post
Free Standing Header
Bi-Fold Door
3/4" dia.
holes
Footing Detail Can be either
round or square
Free
standing
header leg
Door rolls
on here
Floor Level
Door Frame
Door Sheeting
Bottom Trim
Bottom Rubber Seal
Base Plate
Should be flush with the
inside floor or where door
will be sitting on.
Anchor Bolt - by customer
Footing - by customer goes below frost line
Not Included
Customer Must Supply The
Anchor Bolts And Concrete Footing
Footing
goes
below
frost line
