Is this notch cut into a structural piece?

[remy50]

Hello,

Right side of pic, vertical piece inside of door.
Notch was cut into this vertical piece by an &^#@). Is this structural and does this size notch matter?
Should it be filled with something?
It was cut to fit the bottom horizontal trim piece(instead of cutting the trim piece more).
As of now, that trim piece would slide into it.

Also, originally, the weather strip was nailed to some 2x4s that were run horizontally, between drywall and
garage door.
Did they provide any type of support as now the trim piece would be extended and the weather strip
nailed to that.

And is the exposed beam in center of underside going full length supportive? It was never resting on anything, originally,only screwed
into above piece. New one is done, similarly(I think).

Tried to find diagrams of what is structural and not but could not find something that matched up with
a definiteive answer. If there is a good source for this, will have a look to not further waste anyone's time.

Thank you.

 

[DGersic]

That looks like trim to me.

 

[The Cobbler]

I can't make out from your picture what you're dealing with but I agree that it's probably trim pcs

 

[Viper98912]

You seem pretty angry about this little notch?

To me, I looks like it's a large 2x (2x8 is my guess) that's running on your wall. That 2x is probably holding your garage track (the vertical part) and quite possibly holding your winding drum as well. Is it structural? Well, sort of, yes, because it's holding the winding drum to the wall. But is it a big deal? Probably not, since this 2x probably has many many screws holding it along it's length, and there's not a lot of force being placed on this piece up/down or in/out. The 2x creates a nice flat surface to bolt everything down to (at a 1.5" gap from your original wall).

As for the upper piece going horizontal, that looks like an extra piece of wood that was probably bolted in to fill a gap in your original door framing and make your garage door fit better (not having a gap at the top). It's probably just a simple member; the real mccoy is what's above that, which is your header - now that is a real structural member.

You are way too angry about this, drink another beer and calm down

 

[PCustoms]

Not structural, non-issue.

Calm down.

 

[CombatNinja]

Meaningless notch.

 

[egdede]

the tiny chunk missing from the 2x4 in the 2nd picture is fine. New lumber often has worse scarf than that.

 

[BillK]

I cannot seem to see a "notch" anywhere ????

 

[PCustoms]

I cannot seem to see a "notch" anywhere ????

Looking at this again I'm not sure what that 2x is really there for, seems to space the door off the wall an awful lot...

 

[BillK]

Looking at this again I'm not sure what that 2x is really there for, seems to space the door of the wall an awful lot...

Ok, Like egdede said, most of the lumber at Home Depot looks worse than that LOL.

 

[DGersic]

Looking at this again I'm not sure what that 2x is really there for, seems to space the door off the wall an awful lot...

Without seeing more of it, yeah, it does look like the whole door could move forward 1 1/2”.

 

[The Cobbler]

Looking at this again I'm not sure what that 2x is really there for, seems to space the door off the wall an awful lot...

normally the doors have a 2x layed flat inside the opening to screw the track in to . but this does look like it was added at some point, judging from the outer trim .

 

[PCustoms]

normally the doors have a 2x layed flat inside the opening to screw the track in to . but this does look like it was added at some point, judging from the outer trim .

The track, yes.

But I've never seen one where the face of the door hits the 2x. Have my doors been installed wrong?

 

[The Cobbler]

But I've never seen one where the face of the door hits the 2x?

I'm thinking the door was replaced with an off the shelf std size door and it was made to fit an odd ball opening .

 

[remy50]

Thanks to everyone who replied. What a response. The gap from the door to the drywall had a horizontal 2x4 where the weather strip was attached. The vertical board with the notch has braces for the garage door. It does not look like a brace but I know
the short vertical board over the center of the door(16 ft) is for stability for long beams or so I read.

Indeed very angry about the notch and the absolute horror job that was done. Basically, redoing it all. If anything was straight
that would be much easier.

Since we're here. Any ideas about the waterproofing and how to keep the cut siding down? It was j channel but was going
to do drip cap but the siding was held by the j channel so need to figure out something. Don't really want to put j on top
of drip cap if something else is feasible. And notice this same $^&(( nailed the siding down (never finished waterproofing)
so there are holes. Best if whatever solution goes above those to hide them even if they get patched.

 

[firebirdparts]

With all the garage door questions we get, I'm amazed some of you guys didn't know what that board was for.

I don't understand the phrase "keep the cut siding down". Do you mean finish it? Hold it against the house? J channel is pretty standard. I don't know that there's another option with vinyl over an opening.

 

[nmk_61802]

normally the doors have a 2x layed flat inside the opening to screw the track in to . but this does look like it was added at some point, judging from the outer trim .

You also don't normally have the drywall sandwiched between the buckboard, and the door framing. Drywall usually ends at the buckboard, with the buckboard directly attached to the framing.