Making A Garage Door Bigger

Sometimes it may be more budget friendly to demolish an existing garage constructing a larger more accommodating design as a replacement.

Making a garage door bigger.

Widening a garage doorway may be completed in less than a day. Homemade carriage house garage doors. The garage is a total of 24 wide by 24 deep. This lumber will be used to attach your garage door track and a portion of your assembly.

The picture is here. 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. I live in northern new jersey. For example an aging neglected garage in disrepair.

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. 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. 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. Garage doors can be widened to allow easy passage of your vehicle. 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. 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.

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. The garage door on the house we are buying is too narrow to fit most cars through see photo. The garage also needs a new floor and a new roof. The wife wants to replace the two with one 16 overhead garage door.

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. We had a few contractors in to give us. There needs to be enough room height wise lengthwise and depth wise to accommodate a larger garage door.