Custom garage doors are designed to allow extra height and width primarily to match larger vehicles such as vans or trucks.
Standard garage door width metric.
Building codes while designing a garage and an opening for a door in particular always check your local building codes.
Width 31ft 9 4m minimum length 20ft 6m minimum door width 9ft 2 7m minimum single garage door width door width 16ft 4 8m minimum.
A standard tilt door is produced to measure and fit openings up to 2 5m high x 5 5m wide and require 75mm 100mm of headroom.
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.
Standard external door sizes in metric.
Again the door configuration makes no difference to the minimum recommended dimensions.
Learn more about tilt doors here.
Although metric sizes are becoming more common there is often a mix of sizes just to keep us on our toes.
Standard door sizes.
Custom garage door sizes.
External doors usually have a thickness of 44mm.
Dimensions of such doors might start from 6 in width and go up to 18 with one feet increment and from 6 6 to 9 in height with 0 5 feet increment.
I love having a garage.
Discover the standard garage dimensions and sizes here for 1 2 3 and 4 car garages.
We set out illustrated diagrams setting out all key dimensions including width depth and more.