Finished Garage Door Opening

If there isn t enough room above the opening this can t be done without raising the roof of the garage.

Finished garage door opening.

It may be easier to entirely disconnect the opener and set it aside. 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. Several garage door people have told me they want 18. Unscrew or unbolt the brackets that support the garage door tracks and remove them.

Also remove the garage door opener brackets and support the opener on a ladder. Does 15 leave enough room for the door tracks and a center mount chain driven electric door opener. Once again it should be obvious that if you have an arched opening the height would be the same as the highest point of the arch. This way the door will have a nice tight seal once the weatherseal or door stop molding is applied.

As i stated earlier you will want the finished opening to be the same size or slightly smaller than the door. The span above the door opening is framed with a long header that supports the wall area above the door and this header will need to be raised or rebuilt in order to increase the overall door size. So the rough opening depends on how you are going to finish the opening. Reinstall the garage door track brackets using a new section of angle iron on the ceiling.

The size of the finished opening should be the exact same size as the sectional garage door or down to 1 smaller on each side and or the top. While technically the door could overlap the opening as much as the space will allow the design on the outside of the door disappearing behind the jamb will tend to distract from the overall outside. Width of garage door opening standard widths are 8 9 10 12 14 16 17 and 18 height of the garage door opening standard residential heights are 7 7 6 8 header the header is ideally a minimum 12 wide micro laminated beam that spans the width of the garage door opening. If you are finishing the opening with 2x8 then the rough opening is 3 inches wider and 1 1 2 inches higher than the door or 9 3 x 7 1 1 2 etc etc.

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. How to measure the finished width and height use of 2x4s for the sides and header. The garage ceiling will not be sheetrocked or finished this leaves 15 from the top of the door to the bottom of the ceiling joists.