Garage Door Rough Opening Forum

If you are installing a 9 wide door the opening will be 9 3 wide.

Garage door rough opening forum.

The rough opening of a garage door should be 3 inches wider than the door itself. A 16 door gets a 16 3 rough opening. Standard garage doors in our area are 8 9 16 and 18 wide. The size of the door will be approximately the same as this sometimes called the rough opening next measure the sideroom or space available on the left and right sides of the opening.

On each side although some systems can require up to 5 1 2 in. Next your rough opening height should be 1 5 inches taller than the door. On the inside of the jambs we nail 2x4 s around sides and top extending the sides up 1 we call them goal posts and that s what the garage door tracks get bolted to. After this you just need to bring in the opening size to the exact size of the garage.

If you are installing a 9 wide door the opening will be 9 3 wide. So if your door is 9ft wide your rough opening should be 9ft 3 inches. 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. An 8 door gets a 8 3 rough opening.

Frame the rough opening to 3 inches wider than the garage door size you have selected. After that we nail a 2x jamb on the sides and the top of the r o. 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. Most vertical track systems with torsion springs or other hardware require 3 3 4 in.

99 of the residential garage doors that we run across are different than these widths.