Making Garage Door Taller

Older homes have smaller openings for garage doors making it more difficult to fit modern vehicles in.

Making garage door taller.

The garage also needs a new floor and a new roof. Travel trailer also come in smaller sizes and they may need smaller door. 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. It has the old style carriage doors.

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 wife wants to replace the two with one 16 overhead garage door. I live in northern new jersey. Double car garage doors typically start at 12 feet wide and move.

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 have a detached two car garage that is getting up there in years. We had a few contractors in to give us. 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.

The garage is a total of 24 wide by 24 deep. But even with the smaller trailers the dimensions you would need for garage of at least 10 feet width and 10 12 feet height.