Rough Opening For 16 Foot Garage Door

This guide is intended primarily for our builder customers to explain in detail the measurements and condition we need the work site to be in to properly co.

Rough opening for 16 foot garage door.

Frame the rough opening for the garage door to 3 inches wider than the garage door you have selected. 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 old door if you are replacing an existing door with one of the same size or the new door of choice if you are building a new garage. If it s 9ft the opening must be 9ft 3 inches and so on.

For residential homes 99 of doors are either exactly 7 or 8 tall. To make my. The width of the rough opening should be 3 inches greater than the width of the garage door you are purchasing. The 16 7 opening should be after the header and all the trim work is installed.

For instance if the width of the garage door is 8ft the rough opening should be 8ft 3 inches wide. The height of the rough opening would be the height of the garage door plus the thickness of whatever you are putting underneath the header in addition to the thickness of the mortar etc. In our business we refer to rough openings as the size of the opening before the finished lumber has been added to the jambs. 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.

Cut four 2 x 4 trimmers to this length and nail two each to either side of the rough opening. You get the picture. Width meaning your header should be 16 feet 9 inches long. 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.

When pricing your door you will need to price a garage door exactly the size of the opening so when calling around for price points be sure that you have this information in hand. That for a 16 foot wide garage door the header should be at minimum 9 inches longer than the door. For instance if you have a 16 door and are using river stones that are approximately 2 to 2 1 2 you will want the rough opening to be roughly pun intended 16 6. Ordering a garage door based on a rough opening size can leave you with a door that is too big.

The extra length for the header is to.