Framing A Wall With A Garage Door

It is the owner and or the owners contractor to prepare the opening for the garage door.

Framing a wall with a garage door. Build the wall frame. It is not uncommon for homeowners seeking more space in their house to convert their garage into a living space by covering the interior of the garage door with a false wall. An attached garage is a ready made enclosed space with the framing roof and siding already in place. Next pull a measurement between the 2 x 6 lumber that you just attached to the face of the garage wall.

A rough opening refers to the space left inside a door or window frame door in this case where the actual door will be fitted. 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. The first step in converting a garage is to remove the door and build a wall. Let s talk about the garage door rough opening first.

For those who are not familiar with what this is. Attach lumber to the face of the garage wall to the edge of the garage door header. The small walls on each side of an overhead garage door need additional beefy bracing to tie the walls to the foundation as well as the header to the wall talk to your local building official for details. How to frame a garage door 1.

Once you re finished you should have a secure baseplate where you can mount the wall frame that we re going to build in the next step. A false wall may be as simple as fabric attached to a frame or more complex like drywall attached to a frame. Consider hiring a garage door contractor to remove the doors if you have this style spring. The plate markings are sort of like a map that you utilize for garage wall framing when building a garage.

Frame the rough opening for the garage door to 3 inches wider than the garage door you have selected. Now lets look at the short garage wall framing elevation components diagram at the right. Rough opening of garage door. In this section i ve cleared out some space on my garage floor.

With the baseplate secure to the concrete floor i ve got a good base to attach my wall frame to. Cut four 2 x 4 trimmers to this length and nail two each to either side of the rough. Required tools for this project.