How To Fill In Garage Door Opening

This lumber will be used to attach your garage door track and a portion of your assembly.

How to fill in garage door opening.

Header requirement 2 at minimum the header should be 12 wide with doubled 2 4 at opening and ceiling running the width of the door with a 2 4 in the center of the opening for the center bracket to attach to. I have shown option 3 but given the 24 stemwall and the 12 projection of the stemwall above the 4 slab it would seem more practical to go with option 2. Plan to add wooden framework to fill the empty space. Take down the garage door and tracking before you.

Construct a new sole plate across the opening. Draw the house with its present exterior materials. Take down the garage door and tracking before you implement the framework plan. How to design a fill in for a garage door opening step 1.

This would be a typical application with portal frames each side of the garage door. Plan to add wooden framework to fill the empty space. Include window space in the framework if you will install a single window or a larger window section. The end of day one was looking a lot like this.

That hanging plastic was there just to block the wind some and keep the debris outside. He started by ripping out the old door door frame and the flimsy insulation leaving a giant hole in the house. Move the doorway to the end of the wall and you have freed up two walls. The fact that the door is in the middle means that both sides of the wall around the door have to be kept clear and no furniture can be placed along that wall.

Headers should be a minimum of 12 wide. It is so surprising how a room can be made much larger simply by moving a door from the middle of a wall to the end. Add 2 by 4 inch framing boards on 16 inch centres to fill in the wall area. Use treated lumber rated for ground contact and insert a strip of aluminum or copper termite shield between the wood and the slab.

Attach the sole plate with masonry nails or with lag screws inserted into pre drilled holes in the slab. We decided to do a wood frame wall rather than a stone or masonry wall for one main reason. Pull a measurement from the floor of your space to the ceiling next to the door opening. A confused student is a good student.