Making Garage Doors Wider

An old pc spiral carbide cutter planer.

Making garage doors wider.

This is highly effective in reducing the wide swing of carriage garage doors to the dimensions of each individual panel. Each of our panels will be 12 feet by 3 feet 3 7 meters by 9 meters. You also can base the new opening size on the width of the new door you purchase for the garage. Make three panels each measuring the width of the door by the height obtained in step 2.

Cut two pieces of 1 by 2 inch wood studs to the width of the door less 2 inches 5 centimeters. Increasing the size of a garage can include a variety of design ideas with a wide spectrum of associated remodeling costs. These will allow the door to roll freely. Make sure you leave an inch to make the aligned properly.

If you are widening the door because of a new vehicle widen the door to the equivalent of two additional feet per side of vehicle. For example eight feet tall with 4 feet wide are the best solution for one swing door. 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. Best tool for the job.

An alternative twist to the swing out garage doors fiberglass is the use of the bifold garage door which reduces the size of each swing out garage door panel to half its size with alternating hinge orientations creating a collapsible set of doors to either side of the garage door opening. How to increase the size of your garage. Use a black marker to mark the new location for the side of the doorway along the interior of the existing wall. Use an exterior glue if this will be an exterior door.

Before you begin determine the. We needed a replacement garage door and i perfer one that swings out so i can use. On the non hinge side there may be a bevel which should be removed prior to gluing additional stock. You can start to buy materials after making the plans such as proper lumbers rails and other carpenter stuff.

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. Step 1 remove the existing door from the frame by unscrewing the screws on the hinges and lifting the door away. I love to make things myself and especially saving money doing it myself.