Rough Garage Door Framing Diagram

This diagram is not intended as designs for building a new garage it shows the minimum framing needs for the installation of an overhead style garage door.

Rough garage door framing diagram.

Several garage door people have told me they want 18. Does 15 leave enough room for the door tracks and a center mount chain driven electric door opener. All of the rough framing has just been completed. Frame the rough opening for the garage door to 3 inches wider than the garage door you have selected.

It is the owner and or the owners contractor to prepare the opening for the garage door. While garage doors close against rough openings other types of residential doors fit inside the opening. 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. A rough opening refers to the space left inside a door or window frame door in this case where the actual door will be fitted.

Cut four 2 x 4 trimmers to this length and nail two each to either side of the rough opening. It s essential to get this measurement right else your newly purchased garage door won t fit the opening or might actually be smaller than the opening. Therefore before determining a rough opening for the garage door you need to decide upon the jamb material you ll use. Now lets look at the short garage wall framing elevation components diagram at the right.

If this is going to be a problem i guess we could lower the height of the opening for the door 6 and use a 7 6 high garage door. Pay close attention that both short walls will fit between the two long walls which will be erected and braced first.