How To Finish A Garage Door Opening

Re trimming a garage door opening is a small thing that a homeowner can do to make a huge impact.

How to finish a garage door opening.

How to frame a garage doors opening in this case 9ft wide by 8ft tall. All of the rough framing has just been completed. You will need to measure both the height and the width of the garage door. How to installing exterior trim 23 doing it dan s way.

This will determine how long your trim will need to be. Use a hack saw to cut the trim to the length you need. Measure from the nearest wall and from the floor. 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.

Unscrew or unbolt the brackets that support the garage door tracks and remove them. Consider this when making the choice of what opener to buy. 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. Choose a garage door opener.

I install all of the exterior trim on the garage. Then close the garage door lock it closed and unplug the opener to disable it. There are two basic types of garage door openers chain driven and belt driven. Both operate in roughly the same way but just use a slightly different part for operation.

How to measure the finished width and height use of 2x4s for the sides and header. I also go over some of the little things that are s. 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.

Also remove the garage door opener brackets and support the opener on a ladder. Does 15 leave enough room for the door tracks and a center mount chain driven electric door opener.