Fill In A Garage Door Opening

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.

Fill in a 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. Add 2 by 4 inch framing boards on 16 inch centres to fill in the wall area. Plan to add wooden framework to fill the empty space. Garage door torsion springs mounted above the door are under high tension and can unwrap with great force.

This lumber will be used to attach your garage door track and a portion of your assembly. The first step in converting a garage is to remove the door and build a wall. We decided to do a wood frame wall rather than a stone or masonry wall for one main reason. Include window space in the framework if you will install a single window or a larger window section.

Take down the garage door and tracking before you implement the framework plan. 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. He started by ripping out the old door door frame and the flimsy insulation leaving a giant hole in the house. 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.

Pull a measurement from the floor of your space to the ceiling next to the door opening. With the garage door removed attach a pressure treated bottom wall plate to the concrete to be used for the new wall. Add 2 by 4 inch framing boards on 16 inch centers to fill in the wall area. That hanging plastic was there just to block the wind some and keep the debris outside.

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. Take down the garage door and tracking before you implement the framework plan. Consider hiring a garage door contractor to remove the doors if you have this style spring. We have seen many people try and save time and money by leaving the frame in when they try to block up an opening but this never works.

The end of day one was looking a lot like this. Most garage designs i work on have portal frame or shearwalls on each side of the garage door so my thinking is a continuous stemwall might be stronger and better resist the bending moments imposed on the foundation by the lateral loading of the shearwalls. See our project on removing window and door frames to first get the old wooden frame out of the way.