Making Your Garage Door Taller

Measure the width and height of the door opening.

Making your garage door taller. If your home can accommodate a larger garage door and you d like one make sure to get a track extension kit with your garage door opener. How to measure the finished width and height use of 2x4s for the sides and header. The depth of your garage can be no less than 6 inches taller than your garage door. That means if you do want to raise the height of your door you may need to raise the roof line of your entire garage.

Maybe go from my current 13x22 to a 15x24. Raising garage door height. Knock the garage down and build a new one that is slightly bigger. How to frame a garage doors opening in this case 9ft wide by 8ft tall.

We ll make a 12 foot 3 7 meter wide and 9 foot 2 7 meter high door opening. Cut the legs of the racks a few inches. 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. Wall extensions 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.

If your garage isn t detached and is built within the main structure of your house you will likely find raising the roof line to be either impossible or so cost prohibitive that it isn t worth the investment. You answered the question yourself. It s only a small increase in size but it would give me enough room for a work bench my tools and a car. Divide the height evenly by three.

Make three panels each measuring the width of the door by the height obtained in step 2.