Rough Garage Door Framing Diagram

The diagram below shows one of the long garage walls that will be needed.

Rough garage door framing diagram.

It is the owner and or the owners contractor to prepare the opening for the garage door. This wall contains the rough opening for the man door. Several garage door people have told me they want 18. These trimmers should be.

Does 15 leave enough room for the door tracks and a center mount chain driven electric door opener. 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. 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. Step 1 measure the width of the rough opening at the widest point.

Notice that the wall framing dimension is 1 shorter than our overall length of 24. Take these measurements and call us to purchase the roll up door that is right for you. 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. All of the rough framing has just been completed.

How to measure for your new roll up door use the illustration and instructions below to measure your garage roll up door. Cut four 2 x 4 trimmers to this length and nail two each to either side of the rough opening. 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. 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.