Modify Garage Door Height Taller Door In A Shorter Opening

Garage doors are very easy to adjust and can be done in less than 15 minutes.

Modify garage door height taller door in a shorter opening.

If your home can accommodate a larger garage door and you d like one make sure to get a track extension kit with your garage door opener. The garage is a total of 24 wide by 24 deep. Each garage door opener has limits which control the opening and closing heights of the door. That made my door height two inches taller.

The garage also needs a new floor and a new roof. The wife wants to replace the two with one 16 overhead garage door. Standard single car garage door widths start at 8 feet for single car garages and move up in 12 inch increments to 10 feet wide. Travel trailer also come in smaller sizes and they may need smaller door.

So if you have a 7 foot tall garage door the depth of your garage shouldn t be shorter than 7 and a 1 2 feet. With this kind of width and height dimension you would need garage of around 12 feet width and 12 feet of height door. The depth of your garage can be no less than 6 inches taller than your garage door. It has the old style carriage doors.

These limits must be set correctly for the door height to have a proper seal as well as to allow for adequate clearance. But even with the smaller trailers the dimensions you would need for garage of at least 10 feet width and 10 12 feet height. We had a few contractors in to give us. 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.

I live in northern new jersey.