Making Garage Door Wider

So my wife found an old solid oak door with a large oval window in it that she loves.

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. Before you begin determine the. There are going to be some changes. 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.

This frame does double duty. The next part involves constructing the wider and or taller door frame. Step 1 remove the existing door from the frame by unscrewing the screws on the hinges and lifting the door away. In order to easily drive your vehicle into your garage you may need to adjust the width of the opening.

Instead of replacing the door we decided to repaint it. 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. Widening a garage doorway may be completed in less than a day. You are doing basically the same thing just wider rather than higher so you will be neding an entirely new gaarage 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. First it provides support to the front part of the roof of the garage. Increasing the size of a garage can include a variety of design ideas with a wide spectrum of associated remodeling costs. How to increase the size of your garage.

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. With my father in law combining his workshop with mine over the next few months. Second it is the main support for the new garage door.