Making A Garage Door Wider

The single 16 foot wide 4 9 meter wide garage door is large enough to allow two cars to fit.

Making a garage door wider.

If you are having a new garage built there s a good chance that the builder will suggest a door 9 feet wide and 7 feet high assuming you are planning one door for each vehicle in the garage. That s a good size for most of us but what if you happen to have a large truck with large mirrors projecting from the sides or a snowplow on the front. Even so the posts were only like five bucks apiece so you could use them to help plumb in a not so vertical opening or for just. As for the door going into the house from the garage you will want it to be at least 32 inches 81 centimeters wide.

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. My first problem was that i could probably build doors just fine but there is brick on both sides of my garage door opening. For a garage attached or detached from your house of around 18 x 24 feet most popular width for a garage door is 16 feet. If you have an rv the door can go up to 10 feet.

Then the garage door would be 6 x 6 6. As for the height it is 7 or 8 feet. A wider door also permits more natural lighting into the space when the garage is open allowing you to easily locate items. Widening a garage doorway may be completed in less than a day.

I love to make things myself and especially saving money doing it myself. 2 a double door. It is also a good idea to have a 3 foot wide door to the exterior on the side of the garage. In order to easily drive your vehicle into your garage you may need to adjust the width of the opening.

We needed a replacement garage door and i perfer one that swings out so i can use. If you have wood or metal covered wood around your garage door opening then you could optionally skip ahead to actually building the door.