Making A Garage Door Bigger

Buy your larger garage door next take the measurements you have and go buy your bigger garage door.

Making a garage door bigger.

In order to easily drive your vehicle into your garage you may need to adjust the width of the opening. I made it happen so i think anybody armed with minimal 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.

It is possible to install larger garage doors to give you more room to function in your garage. Homemade carriage house garage doors. The garage also needs a new floor and a new roof. First class garage door repair does affordable quality garage door installation.

I have a detached two car garage that is getting up there in years. The garage door on the house we are buying is too narrow to fit most cars through see photo. To make sure the door will fit your measurements ask the garage door sales associate once you find a door you like. 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.

Widening a garage doorway may be completed in less than a day. 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. Pull a measurement from the floor of your space to the ceiling next to the door opening. 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.

I live in northern new jersey. The wife wants to replace the two with one 16 overhead garage door. It has the old style carriage doors. The picture is here.

The garage is a total of 24 wide by 24 deep. He she can confirm that the door will fit. 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. Widening or lengthening a garage can create room for additional vehicles a workshop or additional storage space.