For double car styles you can typically expect dimensions to be 16 feet wide by 7 feet high but note that garage doors are not all created equal.
Single garage roller door sizes.
Broadly speaking there are two types of garage doors.
Counter top and or personal access doors are also manufactured starting as small as 900mm wide.
A standard tilt door.
Roller doors are the ones you re probably thinking of.
Single garage doors can be small enough for golf carts or large enough for tractors depending on your home or community for most homes the standard single car garage door is 8 to 9 feet wide and 7 to 8 feet high.
The most popular standard size up and over garage doors in the uk are still 7 x 6 6 and 7 x 7 for a single garage and 14 x 7 for a double garage even though these sizes are not sufficient for so many modern vehicles to have easy access through the drive through dimensions when the door is open.
Roller doors and sectional doors.
The side room is required to mount the l shaped supporting brackets as well as the roller curtain guides.
Stratco produce all standard size roller doors as well as customised doors up to a huge 5 6 metres wide and 5 metres high.
A standard roller door is produced to measure and fit openings up to 3m high x 5 5m wide and.
A common measurement for many homes with a single door garage is 8 to 9 feet wide and 7 to 8 feet high.
Garage door s standard sizes.
On either side of the door leave a minimum 150 mm to fit the garage door hardware as door is always wider than opening.
New construction frequently offers 9 x 7 garage doors but increasingly offers door widths of 10 feet.
Ensure there is a minimum of 2100mm unobstructed space to allow garage door to open correctly people often angle the roof of garage make sure at lowest point there is a minimum of 350 mm lintel headroom clearance.
Standard double door opening size.
A standard panel door is produced to measure and fit openings up to 3m high x 6 4m wide.
They re continuous curtains of ribbed steel that roll up like a carpet on the ceiling.
Standard single door opening size.
Sectional doors are made of a series of rigid panels and run on a flat track against the ceiling when opened.
Generally for a roller door you install the tracks and the support brackets for the curtain roll inside the garage opening for maximum use and in many cases because the average roll size for a roller door is between 300 and 450mm it needs to go behind the lintel to maintain drive through height.