Making A Garage Door Bigger

This lumber will be used to attach your garage door track and a portion of your assembly.

Making a garage door bigger. For example an aging neglected garage in disrepair. Pull a measurement from the floor of your space to the ceiling next to the door opening. Next take the measurements you have and go buy your bigger garage door. 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.

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 have a detached two car garage that is getting up there in years. The wife wants to replace the two with one 16 overhead garage door. I made it happen so i think anybody armed with minimal car.

To make sure the door will fit your measurements ask the garage door sales associate once you find a door you like. The garage door on the house we are buying is too narrow to fit most cars through see photo. There needs to be enough room height wise lengthwise and depth wise to accommodate a larger garage door. 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.

We had a few contractors in to give us. Buy your larger garage door. 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.

The garage also needs a new floor and a new roof. A wider door also permits more natural lighting into the space when the garage is open allowing. I live in northern new jersey. It has the old style carriage doors.

Homemade carriage house garage doors. 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. Widening a garage doorway may be completed in less than a day. Garage doors can be widened to allow easy passage of your vehicle.