Making A Wood Garage Door

If you have wood or metal covered wood around your garage door opening then you could optionally skip ahead to actually building the door.

Making a wood garage door.

To make a door start by getting a 4 foot by 8 foot sheet of plywood that s 1 2 inch thick. However odd sized doors are typically a special order item that can cost much more and take additional time. I love to make things myself and especially saving money doing it myself. Divide the height evenly by three.

Even so the posts were only like five bucks apiece so you could use them to help plumb in a not so vertical opening or for just. A beautiful exterior wooden door can be built from standard 2 by 6 and 2 by 4 lumber and 1 2 inch plywood. My first problem was that i could probably build doors just fine but there is brick on both sides of my garage door opening. The first step in making swing out garage doors is designing the door.

Make three panels each measuring the width of the door by the height obtained in step 2. The only way i would ever consider building a garage door out of wood would be if there wasn t enough room for an overhead door i might build some swinging wood doors. We ll make a 12 foot 3 7 meter wide and 9 foot 2 7 meter high door opening. Raised panel wood garage doors 300 series.

The most efficient way to design it is by drawings. Then measure the height and width of the doorway you ll be installing the door in and mark the dimensions on the plywood. Next use a circular saw to cut out the plywood and sand the wood so the faces and edges are smooth and level. Wood garage doors 7100 series.

Hi all some thoughts please i want to make some new garage doors my neighbour is making some from 25mm 20mm finished thick tongue groove he is putting his timber horizon tal groove down tongue up every door i see is made with t g vertical his does look different but will it work. Each of our panels will be 12 feet by 3 feet 3 7 meters by 9 meters. There are many better things to do with limited time on this earth than monkey around with garage doors but it is all in what you enjoy doing i guess. Measure the width and height of the door opening.

It is okay with rough sketches because the key is to make it all clear in your mind to get easier work while installing it. Video of the day. If you are planning to stain your door choose lumber and plywood with a similar grain pattern. Three simple steps to build swing out garage doors.