Garage Door Framing Requirements

How to frame a garage door opening.

Garage door framing requirements.

This framing detail explains the minimum. Frame the rough opening for the garage door to 3 inches wider than the garage door you have selected. It is the owner and or the owners contractor to prepare the opening for the garage door. To prepare for the new installation you will need to follow these instructions and pay special attention to the requirements laid out in the sketch below.

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. Doortech wants to provide you with as much information as necessary to ensure your garage door installation is trouble free. 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. 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.

Required tools for this project. Knowing garage door clearance requirements will help you avoid ordering the wrong garage door set up for your needs. Garage doors use either torsion springs or extension springs to raise and lower the door. Cut four 2 x 4 trimmers to this length and nail two each to either side of the rough.