How to frame a garage door 1.
Roughin dim for 9 wide garage door.
Next you will need to know your door height.
1 2 or 1 in one direction of the other will won t typically cause you to have to shop for a non standard garage door size.
Single garage doors can be small enough for golf carts or large enough for tractors depending on your home or community for most homes the standard single car garage door is 8 to 9 feet wide and 7 to 8 feet high.
In this case you might want to give serious thought to going with doors 10 feet wide doors and perhaps increasing the height to 8 feet.
Building codes while designing a garage and an opening for a door in particular always check your local building codes.
Measure the distance from the bottom plate of the wall to a point that is 1 1 2 inches higher that the garage door height.
These garage door dimensions.
If you are installing a 9 wide door the opening will be 9 3 wide.
Dimensions of such doors might start from 6 in width and go up to 18 with one feet increment and from 6 6 to 9 in height with 0 5 feet increment.
However if you are putting bricks thick river rock stones marble or anything else on both sides that is more than 1 thick you will want the rough opening the same.
You should add 2 1 2 to the height of the actual door.
Frame the rough opening for the garage door to 3 inches wider than the garage door you have selected.
The doors extend beyond the finished trim you see from the front a fact that must be taken into consideration when framing and preparing the area for installation.
This will give you room to space the door frame off of the sub.
The rough opening is equal to the size of the door but you need to figure back head and side room before choosing and installing the new garage door.
If the door is 7 tall frame the opening 7 1 5.
99 of the residential garage doors that we run across are different than these widths.
Frame the rough opening to 3 inches wider than the garage door size you have selected.
Framing rough opening sizes are really quite simple.
Just add 2 to the width of the actual door size.
Many such trucks have lost those mirrors trying to squeeze into a 9 foot wide opening.
Standard garage doors in our area are 8 9 16 and 18 wide.
Getting the rough opening size right the first time will save you from frustration when installing your doors.
The garage of course will need to be sized appropriately to handle these larger doors and larger vehicles.
Frame the rough opening to a height that is 1 5 taller than the door that you have selected.
New construction frequently offers 9 x 7 garage doors but increasingly offers door widths of 10 feet.
