How To Fill In Garage Door Opening

Take down the garage door and tracking before you.

How to fill in garage door opening.

Move the doorway to the end of the wall and you have freed up two walls. 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. This lumber will be used to attach your garage door track and a portion of your assembly. Plan to add wooden framework to fill the empty space.

Headers should be a minimum of 12 wide. Add 2 by 4 inch framing boards on 16 inch centres to fill in the wall area. Pull a measurement from the floor of your space to the ceiling next to the door opening. Attach the sole plate with masonry nails or with lag screws inserted into pre drilled holes in the slab.

Construct a new sole plate across the opening. Include window space in the framework if you will install a single window or a larger window section. 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. Sketch the curbside view of the door space in various ways.

The end of day one was looking a lot like this. How to design a fill in for a garage door opening step 1. That hanging plastic was there just to block the wind some and keep the debris outside. This would be a typical application with portal frames each side of the garage door.

Doubled 2 4 s at minimum should be at each edge of the garage door to allow for the mounting of the tracks and jamb brackets. 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. A confused student is a good student. Plan to add wooden framework to fill the empty space.

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. We decided to do a wood frame wall rather than a stone or masonry wall for one main reason. Use treated lumber rated for ground contact and insert a strip of aluminum or copper termite shield between the wood and the slab. Take down the garage door and tracking before you implement the framework plan.