Making A Garage Door Bigger

Widening a garage doorway may be completed in less than a day.

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. It is possible to install larger garage doors to give you more room to function in your garage. Knocking out an exterior wall allows you to expand the size of an existing garage. 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.

We had a few contractors in to give us. Buy your larger garage door next take the measurements you have and go buy your bigger garage door. He she can confirm that the door will fit. I live in northern new jersey.

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. 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. Pull a measurement from the floor of your space to the ceiling next to the door opening.

I have a detached two car garage that is getting up there in years. To make sure the door will fit your measurements ask the garage door sales associate once you find a door you like. It has the old style carriage doors. This lumber will be used to attach your garage door track and a portion of your assembly.

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. The wife wants to replace the two with one 16 overhead 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. Widening or lengthening a garage can create room for additional vehicles a workshop or additional storage space.

The picture is here. I made it happen so i think anybody armed with minimal car. The garage door on the house we are buying is too narrow to fit most cars through see photo. The garage is a total of 24 wide by 24 deep.