Rough Opening For A 10 Foot Wide Garage Door

This will give you room to space the door frame off of the sub floor.

Rough opening for a 10 foot wide garage door.

Step 1 measure the old door if you are replacing an existing door with one of the same size or the new door of choice if you are building a new garage. If you are installing a 9 wide door the opening will be 9 3 wide. 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. 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.

When pricing your door you will need to price a garage door exactly the size of the opening so when calling around for price points be sure that you have this information in hand. 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. Standard garage doors start at 7 tall and increase in increments of one foot. If you are unsure of exactly what size you need please see our article on how to measure your rough opening for a roll up door.

Make the rough opening 3 wider than the garage door. Measure inside dimensions of the door jamb. All of our available models in the 10 foot wide by 10 foot high size range. Also make the rough opening 1 5 taller than the garage door.

You should add 2 1 2 to the height of the actual door. Measure the width of the rough opening at the widest point. Cut four 2 x 4 trimmers to this length and nail two each to either side of the rough opening. For residential homes 99 of doors are either exactly 7 or 8 tall.

Calculate your measurements to the closest fraction of an inch to make sure you have an accurate door size. Framing rough opening sizes are really quite simple. Frame the rough opening to a height that is 1 5 taller than the door that you have selected. Leave at least 5 of space on the sides of the door.

Leave a headroom of 14 or 12 minimum. If the door is 7 tall frame the opening 7 1 5. Install the header jambs and center pad of the frame using a 2 x 6 lumber for the header jambs and center pad. This is the distance between the right and left sides of the rough opening in feet and inches to the closest fraction of an inch.

Just add 2 to the width of the actual door size. This is a collection of our door models available in size of 10 wide by 10 high this also covers rough openings ranging from 9 1 to 9 11 in width and 9 1 to 9 11 in height. Frame the rough opening to 3 inches wider than the garage door size you have selected. Frame the rough opening for the garage door to 3 inches wider than the garage door you have selected.