Making A Garage Door Bigger

I made it happen so i think anybody armed with minimal car.

Making a garage door bigger.

I d like to get an estimate on expanding the door frame area see red circle properly reinforcing the top and installing a new garage door single car. This lumber will be used to attach your garage door track and a portion of your assembly. Cut two 2 x 6 pieces of lumber and attach to the face of the wall running from the edge of your garage door jambs to the ceiling of your garage. There needs to be enough room height wise lengthwise and depth wise to accommodate a larger garage door.

The picture is here. This is a step by step on how your average schmoe can build beautiful carriage house style garage doors i m a computer programmer and this is the first time i ve done anything like this. I live in northern new jersey. A wider door also permits more natural lighting into the space when the garage is open allowing.

For example an aging neglected garage in disrepair. Next take the measurements you have and go buy your bigger garage door. It has the old style carriage doors. In order to easily drive your vehicle into your garage you may need to adjust the width of the opening.

Widening a garage doorway may be completed in less than a day. The wife wants to replace the two with one 16 overhead garage door. Buy your larger garage door. The garage also needs a new floor and a new roof.

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. Sometimes it may be more budget friendly to demolish an existing garage constructing a larger more accommodating design as a replacement. The garage door on the house we are buying is too narrow to fit most cars through see photo. Garage doors can be widened to allow easy passage of your vehicle.

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. Pull a measurement from the floor of your space to the ceiling next to the door opening. To make sure the door will fit your measurements ask the garage door sales associate once you find a door you like. The garage is a total of 24 wide by 24 deep.