Making Garage Door Taller

Garage door openings are famous for having undersized headers and rotten out sill plates.

Making garage door taller.

Have your contractors figure this in. What kind of load is the header over the garage supporting. Easy to do and it can solve alot of problems. 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.

Wall extensions 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. That made my door height two inches taller. To raise the opening you will have to remove the header. If you have the room on the back side of your garage you can make your garage into what is called a jack jill garage.

You are only raising the roof line the studs can be extended by installing say a 6 stud 3 4 of it above the top of the existing stud you will have to remove the top plate and save as you can then re attach it to the new top of the walls double plate included it depends on how your garage was made.