Making A Garage Door Wider

How to increase the size of your garage.

Making a garage door wider.

With my father in law combining his workshop with mine over the next few months. Increasing the size of a garage can include a variety of design ideas with a wide spectrum of associated remodeling costs. 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. Since you have a camera pics of the inside framing wide angle if possible would help the experts advise you.

This frame does double duty. A wider door also permits more natural lighting into the space when the garage is open allowing you to easily locate items. Is the interior finished. We needed to focus on making the garage door look better.

Before you begin determine the. Unfortunately it is only 32 wide and we need that door to be 36 because of where it is in relation to the stairs we carry furniture and beds and other large items through it. 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. Instead of replacing the door we decided to repaint it.

You d have to replace the header all the way across and the material for that might run at least a couple of hundred. First it provides support to the front part of the roof of the garage. Step 1 remove the existing door from the frame by unscrewing the screws on the hinges and lifting the door away. The next part involves constructing the wider and or taller door frame.

So my wife found an old solid oak door with a large oval window in it that she loves. New good quality garage door alone will run 1000 1200 if you install it yourself. Second it is the main support for the new garage door. How would you make an exterior door wider.