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Header: Framing for a Window |
Though the word header dates back to Fifteenth Century England as the name given to an executioner, its earliest use as a building term occurred a couple of hundred years later. It did --and still does--refer to a brick or stone placed with its end--or head-- facing the wall, a practice that fortifies a wall's construction.More frequently today, however, the word header refers to a beam-like support in wood-frame construction. The header spans an opening for a window or door, or a cut-out in the roof or floor for a skylight, chimney or staircase. Typically at least twice the size of surrounding framing members, a header is often built-up from two studs, joists or rafters. It runs between full-length supports and, along its length, carries the loads of the shorter studs, joists or rafters that terminate at the opening.
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