Required tools for this project.
How to build a wall garage door.
Building garage partition walls can give you additional workspace in your home.
It is not uncommon for homeowners seeking more space in their house to convert their garage into a living space by covering the interior of the garage door with a false wall.
The plate markings are sort of like a map that you utilize for garage wall framing when building a garage.
Waterproof your garage walls with drylok.
Step one measuring you want to start by measuring.
Cut plywood to make the doors to fit these openings.
If you want to follow along with the entire process here s how i did it.
Insulate a garage step by step.
This is the more complicated of the short walls since it contains the overhead door rough opening.
A garage wall can be sealed for building an interior room.
The plan is still to insulate my garage door but that s further down the road.
A false wall may be as simple as fabric attached to a frame or more complex like drywall attached to a frame.
The opening must be finished framed before a garage door can be installed.
The first step in converting a garage is to remove the door and build a wall.
Here s how you can do this.
Taking down the door and tracking is probably the most time consuming part of the process.
Most garage door openings are just rough openings when the home is built.
Many people with large two car garages will do this to separate a workshop space away from their car.
Now cut a 2 x 6 piece of lumber to that measurement.
Garage door torsion springs mounted above the door are under high tension and can unwrap with great force.
The jambs need to be 17 inches.
The technique of building a garage door frame is straightforward and a finished frame can be completed in an hour.
Consider hiring a garage door contractor to remove the doors if you have this style spring.
Attach lumber to the face of the garage wall to the edge of the garage door header.
Next pull a measurement between the 2 x 6 lumber that you just attached to the face of the garage wall.
To frame out the cabinets secure 8 foot 2x4s perpendicular at 36 across and 60 across.
The small walls on each side of an overhead garage door need additional beefy bracing to tie the walls to the foundation as well as the header to the wall talk to your local building official for details.
Build the front of the frame in the same pattern as the back 8 feet wide and 8 feet tall.
This will give you two 3 feet wide cabinets on the ends and a 2 foot wide cabinet in the middle.
Now lets look at the short garage wall framing elevation components diagram at the right.
