Rough Opening For 8 X 16 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 8 x 16 garage door.

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. 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. Next you will need to know your door height.

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. 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. 99 of the residential garage doors that we run across are different than these widths. 1 2 or 1 in one direction of the other will won t typically cause you to have to shop for a non standard garage door size.

Standard garage doors in our area are 8 9 16 and 18 wide.