Making A Garage Door Bigger

I have a detached two car garage that is getting up there in years.

Making a garage door bigger.

We had a few contractors in to give us. This lumber will be used to attach your garage door track and a portion of your assembly. It is possible to install larger garage doors to give you more room to function in your garage. The wife wants to replace the two with one 16 overhead garage door.

In order to easily drive your vehicle into your garage you may need to adjust the width of the opening. Homemade carriage house garage doors. I live in northern new jersey. Knocking out an exterior wall allows you to expand the size of an existing garage.

Widening a garage doorway may be completed in less than a day. The garage is a total of 24 wide by 24 deep. 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. To make sure the door will fit your measurements ask the garage door sales associate once you find a door you like.

The garage also needs a new floor and a new roof. 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 next take the measurements you have and go buy your bigger 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.

The garage door on the house we are buying is too narrow to fit most cars through see photo. 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. Garage door garage doors can be widened to allow easy passage of your vehicle. It has the old style carriage doors.

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 picture is here. I made it happen so i think anybody armed with minimal car. He she can confirm that the door will fit.