Garage Door vs Brick Sizes?

[Ivor Windybottom]

I'm designing a new garage. Hopefully a simple question...

How are garage doors normally specified? They're normally still sold in increments of feet and inches, then you add a 75mm frame and end up with some awful random measurement, which is often miles away from standard brick lengths.

E.g. a 8'0" x 7' door is 2578w x 2191h including the frame.

The next biggest brick opening would be 2710mm, leaving a 66mm gap either side of the frame.

The next biggest opening height would be 2250mm, leaving a 59mm gap at the top.

How are newbuild garages normally designed? Do housebuilders fit imperial, metric or brick-sized doors? If so I need to find some.

Thanks!

 

[jj4091]

You can get garage doors in both standard off the shelf sizes and made to measure the opening. Size of opening depends on which type of door you want.

 

[noseall]

I'm designing a new garage. Hopefully a simple question...

How are garage doors normally specified? They're normally still sold in increments of feet and inches, then you add a 75mm frame and end up with some awful random measurement, which is often miles away from standard brick lengths.

E.g. a 8'0" x 7' door is 2578w x 2191h including the frame.

The next biggest brick opening would be 2710mm, leaving a 66mm gap either side of the frame.

The next biggest opening height would be 2250mm, leaving a 59mm gap at the top.

How are newbuild garages normally designed? Do housebuilders fit imperial, metric or brick-sized doors? If so I need to find some.

Thanks!

7' x 7' plus goal posts i.e. 6" for the sides 3" for the top.

The metal framed garage door we had fitted had a lot more adjustment than the wooden posted one we had previously. Trims can be added to the sides and top.

 

[Harry Bloomfield]

How are garage doors normally specified?

All can be made to measure, but the roller shutter doors always are made to your specified size.

 

[stevie888]

Designing to standard brick format is all well and good, but half decent brickies will get the dims you want.

 

[Ivor Windybottom]

Thanks all. I'll make the opening a standard brick dimension and order a custom one.

I can't believe they don't just make standard doors to suit metric brick sizes, they've been around for 50 years. I'm guessing the housebuilders must have their preferred suppliers who make them specifically for them, I doubt they'll be cobbling together brick offcuts and bits of trim. I'll have a hunt, hopefully they exist in some corner of the internet.

I'm sure a brickie could build to suit, but I'd prefer the nice clean look of whole and half bricks and consistent mortar joints. Besides, that brickie may be me, I haven't decided yet. There are only a few bricks either side of the door, so anything non-standard would look quite obvious.

 

[jj4091]

There are only a few bricks either side of the door, so anything non-standard would look quite obvious.

Roller doors are usually fitted inside and you may need up to 300 mm either side of it if that is the type of door that you decide on.

 

[Ivor Windybottom]

Yeah, it's unusually wide for a garage. I'm not going to maximise the door space right out to the corners, it's useful to keep space for some shelves/storage either side of the door, so the door doesn't crash into things against the walls as it opens.

It will probably never see a car anyway, it's just storage, but I want to keep it usable if necessary. It could take a 9' door but I'll settle for 8' or similar. 7' is probably a bit mean for modern cars, that was probably the standard in the days of the Escort Mk1, the same size as the parking bays that cars don't fit in any more.

 

[Ivor Windybottom]

I've decided that side-hinged makes most sense, and most of these are made to measure anyway. So hopefully problem solved, I'll make the opening in standard brick increments and order after building.