You won t need a new garage door as the actual dimensions of the door opening won t change.
Standard rail garage door opener for high lift door.
Dimensions listed cover the most common applications up to 8 high doors and using standard torsion springs with track vertical resting on the floor.
Than a rail with a belt chain or screw suspended from the.
10 inch being the lowest lift and 15 inch radius being your high lift garage door application.
This is a significant amount of space that can be better utilized.
Garage living can take this extra space and create enough clearance to accommodate a car lift.
Need for the opener rail and moves the motor to the side of the garage.
Typical garage doors arch open into the garage at a standard height of approximately 7 8 feet.
A high lift garage door extends your garage door s track so that the door hugs the wall and goes up higher before the horizontal curve.
Maintenance for a high lift garage door.
Some door or spring configurations will need additional headroom due to different components required to counter balance the door.
In addition you ll need a jack shaft opener that relocates the motor to one side of the door and eliminates the need for the opener rail.
Changed to a jack shaft opener.
Garage door track replacement service.
Garage door standard opening heights.
Only thing that a high lift garage door does is gets the door closer to the ceiling of the garage.
A jack shaft opener opens the garage using the spring bar rather.
It makes better use of the vertical space in your garage and gives you at least 12 15 more headroom in your garage by moving the garage door track closer to the ceiling.
When changing to a high lift system the opener will also need to be.