Garage Door Framing Requirements

The single 16 foot wide 4 9 meter wide garage door is large enough to allow two cars to fit.

Garage door framing requirements. Frame the rough opening for the garage door to 3 inches wider than the garage door you have selected. If you are installing a 9 wide door the opening will be 9 3 wide. Frame the rough opening to a height that is 1 5 taller than the door that you have selected. Cut four 2 x 4 trimmers to this length and nail two each to either side of the rough opening.

As for the door going into the house from the garage you will want it to be at least 32 inches 81 centimeters wide. Any doorway into the house shall have a self closing tight fitting solid wood door of not less than 1 3 8 inches in thickness. Where supporting a roof or one story and a roof a method pfg braced wall panel constructed in accordance with figure r602 10 6 3 shall be permitted on either side of garage door openings. 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.

A door with a 20 minute fire rating. 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. It is also a good idea to have a 3 foot wide door to the exterior on the side of the garage. 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.

A private garage attached to a dwelling shall have materials as approved for one hour fire resistive construction on the garage side of any common wall and extending to the roof. Steel door with a solid of honeycomb core not less than 1 3 8 thick. Solid wood door not less than 1 3 8 thick. Frame the rough opening to 3 inches wider than the garage door size you have selected.

Figure r602 10 6 3 method pfg portal frame at garage door openings in seismic design categories a b and c. Here are examples we see during our inspections of when the safety standard has not been met. 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.