These limits must be set correctly for the door height to have a proper seal as well as to allow for adequate clearance.
Modify garage door height taller door in a shorter opening.
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.
We had a few contractors in to give us.
The depth of your garage can be no less than 6 inches taller than your garage door.
Double car garage doors typically start at 12 feet wide and move.
I have a detached two car garage that is getting up there in years.
It has the old style carriage doors.
The garage is a total of 24 wide by 24 deep.
The wife wants to replace the two with one 16 overhead garage door.
With this kind of width and height dimension you would need garage of around 12 feet width and 12 feet of height door.
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.
I had a 2x6 on the flat under the header so i just removed that and cut a half inch off the header.
So if you have a 7 foot tall garage door the depth of your garage shouldn t be shorter than 7 and a 1 2 feet.
But even with the smaller trailers the dimensions you would need for garage of at least 10 feet width and 10 12 feet height.
The garage also needs a new floor and a new roof.
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.
Garage doors are very easy to adjust and can be done in less than 15 minutes.
I live in northern new jersey.