How To Install A Garage Door In A Cinder Block Wall
If your rough opening is made of cinder blocks it will be easiest to find a pre hung door that is smaller than your rough opening rather than trying to enlarge your door opening.
How to install a garage door in a cinder block wall. Once both the top and bottom are secure the sides are secured based on whatever material is on the wall next to it. We had to replace the outer one. The previous occupant had one of the lintels trashed by trucks raming the loading dock. Cutting a hole in a masonry block wall is something that many people find is necessary if they want to add a new door.
The easiest doors to install are pre hung doors. Normally done with welded or bolted structural steel outer frame for the door to reinforce the opening you are making then normal door put inside that outer frame and commonly adding reinforcing and or grout filling of the block voids on the blocks surrounding the door opening. Cutting through a block wall but not the concrete footer would. My shop has 12 concrete block with 10 x 12 gar doors.
To install a door in a concrete block wall you ll need to first create an opening for the door. To determine the width of your future wall decide how many cinder blocks you want to use for the wall width then calculate the width using the block s measurements. The ceiling ht is well over 19 which means there is over 7 above each dr opening. When placing a door in an opening these doors must be fastened to the base material that is present in this location.
This is very common during a remodeling project where you want to finish off a basement or have a walk through door to the garage. For example if your cinder blocks are 8x8 in 20x20 cm and you want to use 2 blocks to make up the wall s width your total wall width would be 16 in 40 cm. These doors come in a solid frame that must be fit into a rough opening. In most cases one of those walls usually the one with the garage door itself will be concrete block.
It has three 4x8 concrete lintels at the doors. The task of installing the door itself is relatively simple while creating an opening in the wall is often a bit more challenging. Most frequently this base material will be concrete brick or block and will require the use of special concrete fasteners door frames may range from solid wood to hollow steel.