Metal Ceiling - Garage Door Track

[ddurrett896]

doing metal ceiling panels in my garage and down to the last row which includes the garage door tracks.

The track uses angle iron that is attached to the truss in two spots, making a Y. Planned to do 1 or 2 small pieces around the support, then one big piece that covers most of it but it's kicking my....

How strong are the tracks without the support? Do I need a 2x4 vertical support under to support the weight?

Thinking about taking one side down, doing the run, then drilling two small 1.5" holes then re attaching the channel. Fill with some type of foam and painting.

OR

Cutting half the angle iron off where it attached to the truss, so it's just a single flat piece of metal that extends thru the panel. Then below you would still see the true angle iron. Thanks!

 

[The Cobbler]

the tracks will support themselves fine if the door's aren't opened. just take measurements so you get them back in the same place , and keep the heights the same as they are now

 

[NUTTSGT]

The house garage, I used some 1" square tubing welded to some 3" wide stock. The 3" stock is lagged to the bottom chord of the trusses and the square tube passes through a hole in the ribbed metal ceiling. The track is then bolted to the square tubing. I merely caulked around the hole with white caulk to match the white ceiling.

 

[Innovate1]

Mine are attached like in my house garage with drywall ceiling - both were done by a garage door company. The angle upright connects to a horizontal angle lagged to the bottom of the truss so the only thing that goes through the ceiling are the lag screws. When they put in the tin ceiling I didn't watch them but think they just unscrewed them and fastened them back up after the tin was in place. I needed to adjust the height a little because of the ridges in the tin and they just slapped them back up so there was a bit of bow in the tracks.

 

[chaosracing]

Here is what my garage door installer did. They are a large company that serves a large area (not overhead door company) They lagged the angle into the roof truss at each end.

 

[ddurrett896]

Here is what my garage door installer did. They are a large company that serves a large area (not overhead door company) They lagged the angle into the roof truss at each end.

Looks good! Just got some scrap angle iron and did the same thing. Thanks!