Garage Door Framing Requirements

This framing detail explains the minimum.

Garage door framing requirements. The plate markings are sort of like a map that you utilize for garage wall framing when building a garage. 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. How to frame a garage door opening. It is the owner and or the owners contractor to prepare the opening for the garage door.

The small walls on each side of an overhead garage door need additional beefy bracing to tie the walls to the foundation as well as the header to the wall talk to your local building official for details. Frame the rough opening for the garage door to 3 inches wider than the garage door you have selected. Cut four 2 x 4 trimmers to this length and nail two each to either side of the rough. This is the more complicated of the short walls since it contains the overhead door rough opening.

Garage doors use either torsion springs or extension springs to raise and lower the door. How to frame a garage door 1. Required tools for this project. Torsion springs mount on a bar above the door while extension springs stretch down the side of the upper tracks.

Pull a measurement from the floor of your space to the ceiling next to the door opening. The face of a garage door tells only a portion of the story. Now lets look at the short garage wall framing elevation components diagram at the right. 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.

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. Behind the door lies an entire system of components that allow the door to work.