Making A Garage Door Taller

Begin by using a tape measure to determine the width and height of the door opening in inches.

Making a garage door taller.

It has the old style carriage doors. 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. That is the easy project as the building is plenty tall for this.

Travel trailer also come in smaller sizes and they may need smaller 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. I need to cut the opening to the garage 6 taller. With this kind of width and height dimension you would need garage of around 12 feet width and 12 feet of height door.

Just wondering if it would work to add a panel to a garage door to get more height. We had a few contractors in to give us. I live in northern new jersey. The wife wants to replace the two with one 16 overhead garage door.

The garage also needs a new floor and a new roof. 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. Anyone ever done this with success. 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.

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 is a total of 24 wide by 24 deep. For example i have a 9w x 7h garage door 4 21 panels. The door track should be easy as well.

And the headroom above for a taller door. But even with the smaller trailers the dimensions you would need for garage of at least 10 feet width and 10 12 feet height. I have extra track etc.