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. 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. As for the door going into the house from the garage you will want it to be at least 32 inches 81 centimeters wide. It is also a good idea to have a 3 foot wide door to the exterior on the side of the garage. Frame the rough opening to 3 inches wider than the garage door size you have selected.

Steel door with a solid of honeycomb core not less than 1 3 8 thick. Figure r602 10 6 3 method pfg portal frame at garage door openings in seismic design categories a b and c. A door with a 20 minute fire rating. If the door is 7 tall frame the opening 7 1 5.

Solid wood door not less than 1 3 8 thick. 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. If you are installing a 9 wide door the opening will be 9 3 wide. 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.

Frame the rough opening for the garage door to 3 inches wider than the garage door you have selected. 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. 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. 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.

Cut four 2 x 4 trimmers to this length and nail two each to either side of the rough opening. 1 inch 25 4 mm 1 foot 304 8 mm. 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.