Garage Door Wall Framing

An attached garage is a ready made enclosed space with the framing roof and siding already in place.

Garage door wall framing.

With the baseplate secure to the concrete floor i ve got a good base to attach my wall frame to. 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. Required tools for this project. We ll discuss all you need to know about garage door framing and its technicalities.

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. Then this article is for you. To assemble the long garage wall framing components we will start with the 2 x 4 sole plate and top plate by laying lengths of 2 x 4 material side by side on the ground or garage floor. Needed framing for new garage door opening 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.

Attach lumber to the face of the garage wall to the edge of the garage door header. Build the wall frame. Make the rough opening 3 wider than the garage door. My building department says that parts of my house plans such as the walls next to the garage door openings don t meet wall bracing rules.

The first step in converting a garage is to remove the door and build a wall. This is a crucial step to perform if you have plans of purchasing a new garage door or even replacing an existing one. Consider hiring a garage door contractor to remove the doors if you have this style spring. We are going to be marking the location of each stud on them simultaneously with a small framing square that is 1 1 2 wide.

Cut four 2 x 4 trimmers to this length and nail two each to either side of the rough. Now cut a 2 x 6 piece of lumber to that measurement. How to frame a garage door 1. In this section i ve cleared out some space on my garage floor.

Measure the distance from the bottom plate of the wall to a point that is 1 1 2 inches higher that the garage door height.