Rough Opening Garage Door Framing Diagram

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.

Rough opening garage door framing diagram.

It s essential to get this measurement right else your newly purchased garage door won t fit the opening or might actually be smaller than the opening. Install the header on top of the trimmers and nail. In our business we refer to rough openings as the size of the opening before the finished lumber has been added to the jambs. Words like rough opening are thrown around and i m not sure if we are speaking about the same thing.

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. The diagram below shows one of the long garage walls that will be needed. You can see all of the necessary components of the wall required to assemble frame it. To make my.

Notice that the wall framing dimension is 1 shorter than our overall length of 24. Step 1 measure the old door if you are replacing an existing door with one of the same size or the new door of choice if you are building a new garage. After installing the jambs your garage door opening should now be the same size as the garage door. This wall contains the rough opening for the man door.

Nail or screw 2 x 6 jambs to the framing on the top first and then the sides of the rough opening. It is the owner and or the owners contractor to prepare the opening for the garage door.