How to Build Garage Door Jamb

hello hi customer this is Dave with affordable Doreen game I want to show you they properly built Jam let's get to it little noisy I apologize for the noise I'm up flip the camera out and we're gonna show you the properly built crash door jamb so as you can see here somebody's been drinking besides that we have a jam with a concrete block here but the wood is flush I can run my hand across this very evenly it's flush it's not stepped in if it stepped in this is incorrect this will be wrong this will be problems you can see that they put a board out here then they put their the outside fascia I guess you'd call it out here and then what I like to see is that I typically would want to see a 2 by 6 this is a 2 by 4 I'd rather see a 2 by 6 on here and if it was my place I would just do treated the reason being it doesn't split when we put our screws into it it last a little bit longer but as you can see this customer actually put them all the way to ceiling I believe that that is always the right way the correct way to do it also you can see that he had a her out this header board up here so it goes across and then as he goes across as we go across he's also got a board for our spring pad it would be for a spring pad and for our opener to connect to so this is all one even surface so the surface has continues on it's all even and as we can see again we have the the board that goes always a ceiling which I believe is the right way to do it I like it because when guys put their drywall up here they leave this exposed and I think it looks better and it gives us because you do have to remember that our door doesn't just stop right here our door track goes up a little bit higher and then across and that's where a lot of people don't seem to understand so as you can see flush again that's wonderful so I would definitely say this is a very good and then this guy here he actually put a lot of reinforcement in for that spring pack because that's gonna get a lot of torque that's where a lot of your abuse happens with the opener kicking on and off that'll be a really good that's a good spot for failure if you don't do it right so definitely anchor that really well so other than that it's looking really good and I think that's about it so another thing that sometimes people confuse is that they think that the garage door sits in let's say like this house door here this house store right here it goes inside the jam you know it goes inside this this cavity let's just say a lot of people who understand that the garage door does not go inside the hole it sticks on the back side so it's just like a piece of board or a piece of something that's flat and it rides on the back side of this so to have your jam a little bit under is better than a little over for the garage door guy the reason being is that you will actually your weather seal will cover better so let's say this one I know is uh it's it's made for 18-foot he's probably got it so it's a like 17 11 is probably what he's got on the the distance apart and then it's 7-foot 4 tall but we probably want more like you know 6 6 11 somewhere in there you know this grows your grad store grows about an inch with the bottom seals so 7 foot on this one is not the worst thing if your rate at 7 you just don't want to exceed that's the biggest thing don't exceed that's where we run into problems because if the concrete's off a little bit your doors sitting down you're gonna have a gap up here what not so anyways yeah so thanks for watching I hope this is informational for you and you guys can learn something that how you make a garage door jamb the proper way I wanted to make this quick little video this just because there's a lot of people have questions how to make door jambs so this is a properly done one I'm very impressed this is a good job a lot of times builders and that they'll leave us uh they won't put these boards in here and then we got this gap and then we got to do a bunch of Shemin and stuff it's just not pretty so this is the proper way to do a garage door jamb I hope you guys have a wonderful day and take care

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Length: 4min 21sec (261 seconds)

Published: Wed Jul 31 2019