How To Finish A Garage Door Opening

This will determine how long your trim will need to be.

How to finish a garage door opening.

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. I install all of the exterior trim on the garage. Consider this when making the choice of what opener to buy. You will need to measure both the height and the width of the garage door.

Then close the garage door lock it closed and unplug the opener to disable it. The garage door sits on the front of your house facing the road like a giant blank canvass. A belt driven garage door opener can be a bit quieter during operation. Then measure the size of your garage door opening with a tape measure and write down the size.

I also go over some of the little things that are s. Choose a garage door opener. Both operate in roughly the same way but just use a slightly different part for operation. Use a hack saw to cut the trim to the length you need.

Once all the trim has been removed you may close your garage door. How to frame a garage doors opening in this case 9ft wide by 8ft tall. How to installing exterior trim 23 doing it dan s way. Also remove the garage door opener brackets and support the opener on a ladder.

How to measure the finished width and height use of 2x4s for the sides and header. There are two basic types of garage door openers chain driven and belt driven. 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. Does 15 leave enough room for the door tracks and a center mount chain driven electric door opener.

Several garage door people have told me they want 18. Unscrew or unbolt the brackets that support the garage door tracks and remove them.