Fill In A Garage Door Opening

The first step in converting a garage is to remove the door and build a wall.

Fill in a garage door opening.

Take down the garage door and tracking before you implement the framework plan. Pull a measurement from the floor of your space to the ceiling next to the door opening. This lumber will be used to attach your garage door track and a portion of your assembly. Filling in a door or window opening is not hard and as long as you have the correct equipment it can be done fairly quickly.

With the garage door removed attach a pressure treated bottom wall plate to the concrete to be used for the new wall. Consider hiring a garage door contractor to remove the doors if you have this style spring. A confused student is a good student. Include window space in the framework if you will install a single window or a larger window section.

Plan to add wooden framework to fill the empty space. Cut two 2 x 6 pieces of lumber and attach to the face of the wall running from the edge of your garage door jambs to the ceiling of your garage. 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. Plan to add wooden framework to fill the empty space.

Take down the garage door and tracking before you implement the framework plan. 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. Add 2 by 4 inch framing boards on 16 inch centres to fill in the wall area. He started by ripping out the old door door frame and the flimsy insulation leaving a giant hole in the house.

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. Add 2 by 4 inch framing boards on 16 inch centers to fill in the wall area. Garage door torsion springs mounted above the door are under high tension and can unwrap with great force. If the garage has a support column build a temporary bridge support by doubling up some 2 by 6 temporary headers and wedging them under the garage door header with 2 by 4 stilts on either side.

We decided to do a wood frame wall rather than a stone or masonry wall for one main reason. See our project on removing window and door frames to first get the old wooden frame out of the way. That hanging plastic was there just to block the wind some and keep the debris outside.