How To Finish A Garage Door Opening

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How to finish a garage door opening.

Use a hack saw to cut the trim to the length you need. Also remove the garage door opener brackets and support the opener on a ladder. 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. Then measure the size of your garage door opening with a tape measure and write down the size.

Measure from the nearest wall and from the floor. Consider this when making the choice of what opener to buy. Choose a garage door opener. How to installing exterior trim 23 doing it dan s way.

Several garage door people have told me they want 18. Once all the trim has been removed you may close your garage door. Unscrew or unbolt the brackets that support the garage door tracks and remove them. The garage door sits on the front of your house facing the road like a giant blank canvass.

Re trimming a garage door opening is a small thing that a homeowner can do to make a huge impact. Does 15 leave enough room for the door tracks and a center mount chain driven electric door opener. 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. There are two basic types of garage door openers chain driven and belt driven.

You will need to measure both the height and the width of the garage door. This will determine how long your trim will need to be. Both operate in roughly the same way but just use a slightly different part for operation. How to frame a garage doors opening in this case 9ft wide by 8ft tall.

Then close the garage door lock it closed and unplug the opener to disable it. All of the rough framing has just been completed.