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 to 3 inches wider than the garage door size you have selected. Steel door with a solid of honeycomb core not less than 1 3 8 thick. 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. 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.

Los angeles building code 12 interior environment 1211 hcd 1 hcd 2 garage door springs 1211 1 general 1211 1 1 extension garage door springs calculate code requirements code calculators automatically generate a detailed list of requirements. 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. Cut four 2 x 4 trimmers to this length and nail two each to either side of the rough opening. 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.

As for the door going into the house from the garage you will want it to be at least 32 inches 81 centimeters wide. It is also a good idea to have a 3 foot wide door to the exterior on the side of the garage. 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. Solid wood door not less than 1 3 8 thick.

Frame the rough opening to a height that is 1 5 taller than the door that you have selected. Here are examples we see during our inspections of when the safety standard has not been met. A door with a 20 minute fire rating. 1 inch 25 4 mm 1 foot 304 8 mm.

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. If the door is 7 tall frame the opening 7 1 5. Frame the rough opening for the garage door to 3 inches wider than the garage door you have selected.