Increase Height Of Garage Door Opening

Use a step ladder to more easily measure the ceiling height.

Increase height of garage door opening.

The garage of course will need to be sized appropriately to handle these larger doors and larger vehicles. I had a 2x6 on the flat under the header so i just removed that and cut a half inch off the header. First class garage door repair does affordable quality garage door installation. Yes my aim is to be able to be able to move things that are higher that 6ft in through the door.

Widening garage door opening in cinder block wall 6 answers hey i got a dilemma that is i have to increase a garage door opening from 7 feet to 12 feet and add a foot in height to the door from 9 to 10. A garage will need backroom that equals the door height plus 18 inches and possibly more based on the installation of an automatic garage door opener. Measure the backroom the distance from the garage door opening to the back wall of the garage. Because garage doors are usually sized to snugly fit the dimensions of the garage itself making the door larger usually means making the garage larger.

That made my door height two inches taller. The height of the rough opening would be the height of the garage door plus the thickness of whatever you are putting underneath the header in addition to the thickness of the mortar etc. Turn it only a quarter of a turn. Many such trucks have lost those mirrors trying to squeeze into a 9 foot wide opening.

I had had problem getting my tractor in with the rops up and getting some larger tru. Hi thanks again for the replies. I solve a big problem i have had with this garage door being too small. One way to do it would be to get wall extensions for the entire the garage and then cut the roof of the garage off lifting it up to the height you want it.

I removed some siding and and re did the trim on the top of the door and then recovered every thing with aluminum and installed new rubber garage door sill around the opening. In this case you might want to give serious thought to going with doors 10 feet wide doors and perhaps increasing the height to 8 feet. Also to be able to use my scissor lift fully as at present i can. Step 4 test the opener to see if the door height is now at the desired level.