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14 Apr ’12
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I have a detached 1 car garage. The only way in is through the garage door. the garage door only opens electronically. i have a window on the side of the garage. I want to turn that window into a door opening and i want to make a door. Any good tutorials for this? I saw part of a guy making a shed door on youtube, but it wasnt a good video.
why do i want to do this? well, if i am storing my generator in the garage and the power goes out, im screwed.
i think KVR made a door for his smoker, i imagine something like that would work, but im not sure.
Also, what is the best tool/saw to make the door opening with once i take the window out?
19 Feb ’12
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It's beyond me, but I think the first question is what is your garage made of? Wood, concrete, or cinder block? I would imagine you would want to use a sawzall for something like that, but it's just a guess. When all else fails, a sawzall ALWAYS does the trick. lol
16 Feb ’12
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I would think putting in a normal door first would be ideal. Then install the doggy door into that new door.
14 Apr ’12
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easytapper, it is just wood. a sawzall will cut it. i have one of those, just didnt know if it was best way
19 Feb ’12
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I'm not the handiest person in the world, but I wouldn't know what tool would be better in that situation than a sawzall. I imagine you'd make your hole, frame it out, then install a pre-hung exterior door, then finish it off. The hardest part might be the finish. Making sure it looks good, especially on the outside. The other issue is the structural integrity of the garage.
15 Feb ’12
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easiest way would be get a prehung door, it will have your rough opening required for the door, usually it's about a inch greater than the width of the door. What I would do is cut out the studs on the inside of the garage and frame everything out, you want a king stud that will run from the floor to wall plate, these will be full height. Then nail in jack studs, these will be the height of the rough opening for the door.
You then nail on a header spanning the jack studs to carry the weight of the load. Depending on what you have for framing will depend on the thickness of the header. If you have 2x4 wall nail 2 2x6 together with a piece of half inch plywood between them and this will give you your 3.5 inch thickness of the framing. A 2x4 is really a 1.5x3.5. If you have 2x6 framing your studs are actually 5.5 inch thick. So you would want to use 3 pieces of 2x6 and 2 half inch plywood to build it to 5.5 inch thick.
Once you have the header built, just nail it onto the jack studs and then put in some cripple studs between the top of the header and the top wall plate. Maintain the 16 or 24 inch on center, whatever your garage framing is, it will make it easier if you need to hang drywall or plywood, whatever.
It will look like this
Once that is framed out just take the sawzal and cut out the opening. If you have vinyl siding you want to remove it or else it will get all chipped to hell with using a sawzal.
To mount the door, I mount it on the hinge side first. If you are lucky the stud will be level, probably won't be though, so use cedar shims to level it out and then nail or screw through the frame and shims into the stud. I usually then go around and level the the bottom and sides and keep shimming as needed as I go.
That would be the easiest way, now if you actually want to build the door, the easiest way would be use 2x6 t&g spruce and cap them with a 2x6 on the top and bottom, you can see that in our barn thread. You would want to use a drill guide like this to angle into the wood so you can countersink the screws into the boards and you would be screwing each board together to hold them in place
here we were assembling the doors, you can see where we also screwed the top and bottom plate into the t&g
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