Making A Garage Door Wider

That s a good size for most of us but what if you happen to have a large truck with large mirrors projecting from the sides or a snowplow on the front.

Making a garage door wider.

I love to make things myself and especially saving money doing it myself. For a shed the best size for installing a garage door is 8 x 14 feet. In order to easily drive your vehicle into your garage you may need to adjust the width of the opening. A wider door also permits more natural lighting into the space when the garage is open allowing you to easily locate items.

If you have wood or metal covered wood around your garage door opening then you could optionally skip ahead to actually building the door. Then the garage door would be 6 x 6 6. 2 a double 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.

A wider door also permits more natural lighting into. We needed a replacement garage door and i perfer one that swings out so i can use. For a garage attached or detached from your house of around 18 x 24 feet most popular width for a garage door is 16 feet. If you have an rv the door can go up to 10 feet.

It is also a good idea to have a 3 foot wide door to the exterior on the side of the garage. Widening a garage doorway may be completed in less than a day. My first problem was that i could probably build doors just fine but there is brick on both sides of my garage door opening. Even so the posts were only like five bucks apiece so you could use them to help plumb in a not so vertical opening or for just.

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 you are having a new garage built there s a good chance that the builder will suggest a door 9 feet wide and 7 feet high assuming you are planning one door for each vehicle in the garage.