Making A Garage Door Taller

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.

Making a garage door taller.

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. The garage is a total of 24 wide by 24 deep. Begin by using a tape measure to determine the width and height of the door opening in inches. I have extra track etc.

I live in northern new jersey. But even with the smaller trailers the dimensions you would need for garage of at least 10 feet width and 10 12 feet height. Travel trailer also come in smaller sizes and they may need smaller door. The wife wants to replace the two with one 16 overhead garage door.

Measuring a residential garage door is more than determining the dimensions of the door but making sure the garage can accommodate a garage door opener and the door in both open and closed positions. Just wondering if it would work to add a panel to a garage door to get more height. Standard single car garage door widths start at 8 feet for single car garages and move up in 12 inch increments to 10 feet wide. That is the easy project as the building is plenty tall for this.

For example i have a 9w x 7h garage door 4 21 panels. Anyone ever done this with success. The door track should be easy as well. With this kind of width and height dimension you would need garage of around 12 feet width and 12 feet of height door.

Can i add an additional 21 panel to make a taller door. I have a detached two car garage that is getting up there in years. The garage also needs a new floor and a new roof. We had a few contractors in to give us.

That made my door height two inches taller. I need to cut the opening to the garage 6 taller. It has the old style carriage doors.