Remove any outside wall covering to expose the wall where the door will be installed.
House exit door into garage.
For many people the entryway between house and garage is the most used door in the home.
The opening in the wall needs to be 4 inches wider and one inch taller than the pre hung entry door.
A remodeler doing a flip house changes out all the doors in the home to update the interior and replaces the old door to the garage with a hollow core interior door.
Remove two of the studs in the wall and create a 41 inch opening with the studs that were removed.
Since garage doors are an exit we would install the doors to open in the path of least resistance.
View all house to garage doors.
Garage entry doors we install doors that open from the garage into the house on either side of the frame.
The door between your house and an attached garage is considered an exit door from the home and should swing into the house and not the garage.
Do the same inside the garage.
We recommend that the door between garage and residence should be equipped with a self closing device although no longer required by the irc and fbc.