How To Install A Garage Door New Construction

A quick tutorial on the various steps.

How to install a garage door new construction.

The door must be level even if the floor isn t so use shims under the section to level it. Finish the corners with a sharp wood chisel. With your safety glasses on start the cut with the blade clear of the siding and then lower the moving blade into it. Cut along the outline down to the sheathing.

Installing a garage door. The rubber gasket on the bottom section will fill the gaps created by an unlevel floor. Continental has expertise in all kinds of custom door fabrication and installation and you ll find our experience with new construction jobs is tough to match. Insert the bottom piece into the door frame and use a level to properly set the piece.

Measure the various areas where the door will be installed. Drill pilot holes image 1 and secure the bar with screws. Be sure the bar is centered on the panel. This is a quick video on installing a garag.

Once the piece is in. How to install a garage door. Our extensive experience ranges from new construction installations and retrofit remodels to replace existing garage doors for multi family homes apartments new subdivision. Door opening height and width headroom from top of.

Stop just short of the corners to prevent damaging the siding that will remain. Begin installing your new door. Center and level the first section after you install the brackets. If you re installing a two car garage door place a reinforcing bar on the top panel to prevent the door from bowing in the center.

Install the second.