Standard Garage Door Opening Size

This post is intended for purposes of clarifying how garage door sizes work and opening preparation.

Standard garage door opening size.

Always consider the car dimensions while designing a door opening and choosing right size of the garage door. Double car garage doors typically start at 12 feet wide and move. A 8 x 7 feet door will be the perfect option for any mid size sedans and most of suvs. A garage will need backroom that equals the door height plus 18 inches and possibly more.

Single garage doors are a height of 7 feet with widths from 8 to 10 feet. Standard systems require 10 inches of headroom while some require 12 inches while garage door openers often require an additional three inches of clearance. 99 of the residential garage doors that we run across are different than these widths. Rv garage doors are taller with a height of 8 to 9 feet and width of 16.

Custom doors range per home. If there isn t enough room above the opening this can t be done without raising the roof of the garage. 1 2 or 1 in one direction of the other will won t typically. Standard garage door sizes range from single doors to commercial doors.

Measure the backroom the distance from the garage door opening to the back wall of the garage. Standard garage doors in our area are 8 9 16 and 18 wide. Standard single car garage door widths start at 8 feet for single car garages and move up in 12 inch increments to 10 feet wide.