10 Foot Wide Garage Door Rough Opening

Many 16 x 7 garage doors will be designed with a pair of single 8 foot garage door bays separated by a central post or column.

10 foot wide garage door rough opening.

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. Standard garage doors start at 7 tall and increase in increments of one foot. All of our available models in the 10 foot wide by 10 foot high size range. If you are installing a 9 wide door the opening will be 9 3 wide.

You get the picture. For residential homes 99 of doors are either exactly 7 or 8 tall. Now all you need to know is how to properly frame your door rough opening. The standard size for double garage doors is 16 feet wide and 7 to 8 feet high.

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. 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. The height is 80 which is considered 6 8 or 6 8 add 2 1 2 to the actual door height and frame it 82 1 2 high. The rough opening is equal to the size of the door but you need to figure back head and side room before choosing and installing the new garage door.

So if you have a bedroom door that is 30 wide which is considered a 2 6 or 2 6 door just add 2 to the width and frame it 32 wide. Many home builders do not consider this a structural necessity but a style and price choice for the homeowner. The width of the rough opening should be 3 inches greater than the width of the garage door you are purchasing. Frame the rough opening to a height that is 1 5 taller than the door that you have selected.

For instance if the width of the garage door is 8ft the rough opening should be 8ft 3 inches wide. 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 header the header is ideally a minimum 12 wide micro laminated beam that spans the width of the garage door opening. 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. 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.

Frame the rough opening to 3 inches wider than the garage door size you have selected.