Making Garage Door Wider

Instead of replacing the door we decided to repaint it.

Making garage door wider.

A wider door also permits more natural lighting into the space when the garage is open allowing you to easily locate items. With my father in law combining his workshop with mine over the next few months. We needed to focus on making the garage door look better. Increasing the size of a garage can include a variety of design ideas with a wide spectrum of associated remodeling costs.

In order to easily drive your vehicle into your garage you may need to adjust the width of the opening. The next part involves constructing the wider and or taller door frame. To make a door frame wider the do it yourself should also ensure that the planned construction does not cut into any existing electrical or heating and air conditioning equipment. How to increase the size of your garage.

Step 1 remove the existing door from the frame by unscrewing the screws on the hinges and lifting the door away. How would you make an exterior door wider. Widening a garage doorway may be completed in less than a day. 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.

First it provides support to the front part of the roof of the garage. There are going to be some changes. Before you begin determine the. Unfortunately it is only 32 wide and we need that door to be 36 because of where it is in relation to the stairs we carry furniture and beds and other large items through it.

So my wife found an old solid oak door with a large oval window in it that she loves. The closest i have done to this is raising a 7 foot door to 8 for an 8 wide door and that ran 3000 roughly but only involved adding a panel to the door and added track sections for added height. 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.