Rick shows you how he converted his garage door to high lift.
Modify garage door height.
Garage living can take this extra space and create enough clearance to accommodate a car lift.
Since 1982 quality overhead door has been providing homeowners and business owners in the toledo area with top quality garage doors and high lift garage door conversions.
Garage interiors can be as high as 12 15 feet.
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.
That made my door height two inches taller.
Garage door standard opening heights.
Typical garage doors arch open into the garage at a standard height of approximately 7 8 feet.
This is a significant amount of space that can be better utilized.
These limits must be set correctly for the door height to have a proper seal as well as to allow for adequate clearance.
Each garage door opener has limits which control the opening and closing heights of the door.
Double car garage doors typically start at 12 feet wide and move.
I had a 2x6 on the flat under the header so i just removed that and cut a half inch off the header.