Garage Door Framing Requirements

My building department says that parts of my house plans such as the walls next to the garage door openings don t meet wall bracing rules.

Garage door framing requirements.

If you are installing a 9 wide door the opening will be 9 3 wide. Figure r602 10 6 3 method pfg portal frame at garage door openings in seismic design categories a b and c. The single 16 foot wide 4 9 meter wide garage door is large enough to allow two cars to fit. Steel door with a solid of honeycomb core not less than 1 3 8 thick.

A private garage attached to a dwelling shall have materials as approved for one hour fire resistive construction on the garage side of any common wall and extending to the roof. Solid wood door not less than 1 3 8 thick. Frame the rough opening to a height that is 1 5 taller than the door that you have selected. Measure the distance from the bottom plate of the wall to a point that is 1 1 2 inches higher that the garage door height.

Los angeles building code 12 interior environment 1211 hcd 1 hcd 2 garage door springs 1211 1 general 1211 1 1 extension garage door springs calculate code requirements code calculators automatically generate a detailed list of requirements. Here are examples we see during our inspections of when the safety standard has not been met. Any doorway into the house shall have a self closing tight fitting solid wood door of not less than 1 3 8 inches in thickness. Where supporting a roof or one story and a roof a method pfg braced wall panel constructed in accordance with figure r602 10 6 3 shall be permitted on either side of garage door openings.

As for the door going into the house from the garage you will want it to be at least 32 inches 81 centimeters wide. Frame the rough opening to 3 inches wider than the garage door size you have selected. We are going to be marking the location of each stud on them simultaneously with a small framing square that is 1 1 2 wide. 1 inch 25 4 mm 1 foot 304 8 mm.

It is also a good idea to have a 3 foot wide door to the exterior on the side of the garage. To assemble the long garage wall framing components we will start with the 2 x 4 sole plate and top plate by laying lengths of 2 x 4 material side by side on the ground or garage floor. Cut four 2 x 4 trimmers to this length and nail two each to either side of the rough opening.