Older homes have smaller openings for garage doors making it more difficult to fit modern vehicles in.
Making garage door opening taller.
Pull a measurement from the floor of your space to the ceiling next to the door opening.
Begin by using a tape measure to determine the width and height of the door opening in inches.
This lumber will be used to attach your garage door track and a portion of your assembly.
The door track should be easy as well.
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.
It should be obvious that you don t use twice the thickness for the height since you will not be putting anything on the floor but you have been reminded.
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.
That is the easy project as the building is plenty tall for this.
The height of the rough opening would be the height of the garage door plus the thickness of whatever you are putting underneath the header in addition to the thickness of the mortar etc.
I solve a big problem i have had with this garage door being too small.
I need to cut the opening to the garage 6 taller.
It is possible to install larger garage doors to give.
Each garage door opener has limits which control the opening and closing heights of the door.
Garage doors are very easy to adjust and can be done in less than 15 minutes.
That made my door height two inches taller.
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.
These limits must be set correctly for the door height to have a proper seal as well as to allow for adequate clearance.