How To Cut A Door In Garage

After i in installed a 8 x 10 wide garage door on.

How to cut a door in garage.

Cutting up my garage doors with a utility knife to demonstrate the poor quality of the builder grade garage doors on my home then replacing them with high quality garage doors. Published on sep 10 2012. Use a chalk line to connect the marks and define the cut line for the opening. Cut pieces of vinyl jamb material starting with the top jamb to match these.

Repeat this for the other two parts of the doorframe and the other side of it as well. Measure up from the bottom of the frame up to the inch mark at the top of the frame. Measure the top of the door s rough opening height from the bottom line and mark a level horizontal line to complete the perimeter of the cut line for the opening. So that said if you have the space on the inside to move the tracks for the new door in all reality you wouldn t need to cut the door at all.

Please try again later. Rating is available when the video has been rented. If you really want to cut it and it has panels it doesn t seemnlike a good idea as it ll look off. Measure the inside dimensions of the garage door jamb horizontally across the top and vertically along both sides.

Step 3 using a circular saw with a masonry blade cut the layout line around the perimeter of the opening.