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Cost to increase garage door height.
Hi thanks again for the replies.
I had a 2x6 on the flat under the header so i just removed that and cut a half inch off the header.
Widening garage door opening in cinder block wall 6 answers hey i got a dilemma that is i have to increase a garage door opening from 7 feet to 12 feet and add a foot in height to the door from 9 to 10.
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That made my door height two inches taller.
You are doing basically the same thing just wider rather than higher so you will be neding an entirely new gaarage door.
The big job is raising the header 21 inches.
An alternative would be a pocket garage door that slides sideways on tracks from within the garage door itself so that again the height or width are not effected.
Also to be able to use my scissor lift fully as at present i can.
Yes my aim is to be able to be able to move things that are higher that 6ft in through the door.
The replacement garage door should be one that hangs above the front of the garage and lowers down from the outside so it doesn t affect the height of the garage.
The closest i have done to this is raising a 7 foot door to 8 for an 8 wide door and that ran 3000 roughly but only involved adding a panel to the door and added track sections for added height.
Standard spring anchor bracket kits cost 7 50 and the end bearing plate kits cost 9 00.
It s too late to change it with the builder but i m wondering what the cost is to do this after the build.
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.
My garage is 23 feet wide and when we installed the header we ran the header all the way across the width of the garage so the header is 23 feet long.
Increase garage door height.
Access was via galv external.
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