Making Garage Door Bigger

Next take the measurements you have and go buy your bigger garage door.

Making garage door bigger.

How to increase the size of your garage. Garage doors can be widened to allow easy passage of your vehicle. Pull a measurement from the floor of your space to the ceiling next to the door opening. The garage of course will need to be sized appropriately to handle these larger doors and larger vehicles.

Widening a garage doorway may be completed in less than a day. This lumber will be used to attach your garage door track and a portion of your assembly. Increasing the size of a garage can include a variety of design ideas with a wide spectrum of associated remodeling costs. The garage door on the house we are buying is too narrow to fit most cars through see photo.

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. A wider door also permits more natural lighting into the space when the garage is open allowing. 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. Older homes have smaller openings for garage doors making it more difficult to fit modern vehicles in.

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. Buy your larger garage door. It is possible to install larger garage doors to give. 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.

The picture is here. To make sure the door will fit your measurements ask the garage door sales associate once you find a door you like. Before you begin determine the.