The doors extend beyond the finished trim you see from the front a fact that must be taken into consideration when framing and preparing the area for installation.
Roughin dim for 9 wide garage door.
Frame the rough opening to a height that is 1 5 taller than the door that you have selected.
Single garage doors can be small enough for golf carts or large enough for tractors depending on your home or community for most homes the standard single car garage door is 8 to 9 feet wide and 7 to 8 feet high.
Standard garage doors in our area are 8 9 16 and 18 wide.
Now all you need to know is how to properly frame your door rough opening.
Building codes while designing a garage and an opening for a door in particular always check your local building codes.
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.
This will give you room to space the door frame off of the sub floor.
Frame the rough opening for the garage door to 3 inches wider than the garage door you have selected.
The garage of course will need to be sized appropriately to handle these larger doors and larger vehicles.
99 of the residential garage doors that we run across are different than these widths.
Many such trucks have lost those mirrors trying to squeeze into a 9 foot wide opening.
If you are installing a 9 wide door the opening will be 9 3 wide.
You should add 2 1 2 to the height of the actual door.
New construction frequently offers 9 x 7 garage doors but increasingly offers door widths of 10 feet.
However if you are putting bricks thick river rock stones marble or anything else on both sides that is more than 1 thick you will want the rough opening the same.
Therefore making the width of the garage door rough opening the same size as the door would be fine if you are going to use a thin layer of stucco vinyl siding or 1 by lumber.
How to frame a garage door 1.
If the door is 7 tall frame the opening 7 1 5.
In this case you might want to give serious thought to going with doors 10 feet wide doors and perhaps increasing the height to 8 feet.
Dimensions of such doors might start from 6 in width and go up to 18 with one feet increment and from 6 6 to 9 in height with 0 5 feet increment.
Frame the rough opening to 3 inches wider than the garage door size you have selected.
Cut four 2 x 4 trimmers to this length and nail two each to either side of the rough.
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.
Next you will need to know your door height.
These garage door dimensions.
