My garage has a brick facade and those who built it 25 years ago trimmed the opening with two 2 x 6 vertical pieces against the ends of the brick and flush with the concrete driveway. I was pulling out the old caulk between the trim and the brick, in preparation for recaulking the gap and painting the trim and door, when I started thinking about the bottoms of the trim pieces. I understand that you should not have wood abuting concrete, since the wood will wick moisture from the concrete and eventually rot. However, I checked our new garage, a separate structure, and see that the current framers are still butting the wood trim against te concrete along the garage door opening.
Is there a better way to frame the garage door opening? Both the trim piece (2 x 6) and the end of the framing around the door butt against the concrete floor/apron along the bottom end, and it just doesn’t seem to me that that is a good way to frame a garage.
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I have left the 2by6 up about 2 inches and then trim everyting out with azeck which will never rot. I hope this sort of helps and answers your question
What is azeck? I am not familiar with it.
It is a ceader substatute. It is made out of pvc (just like the pipe) So glue joints are awesome and the stuff will never rot and the cost is slightly more than ceder, but if you want it white you dont need to paint it and it will last forever.
Whenever I have a situation like this. Trim around a garage door, trim around a basement door, etc. I dip the ends of the trim into some plantable wood preservative or paint the end with a couple of coats of oil primer to seal them before nailing them on.