Garage Door Framing Requirements

Knowing garage door clearance requirements will help you avoid ordering the wrong garage door set up for your needs.

Garage door framing requirements.

Doortech wants to provide you with as much information as necessary to ensure your garage door installation is trouble free. Garage doors use either torsion springs or extension springs to raise and lower the door. This framing detail explains the minimum. It is the owner and or the owners contractor to prepare the opening for the garage door.

Required tools for this project. Torsion springs mount on a bar above the door while extension springs stretch down the side of the upper tracks. How to frame a garage door opening. Pull a measurement from the floor of your space to the ceiling next to the door opening.

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. To prepare for the new installation you will need to follow these instructions and pay special attention to the requirements laid out in the sketch below. Cut four 2 x 4 trimmers to this length and nail two each to either side of the rough. 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.