In case of low headroom garage doors you can use a jack shaft garage door opener.
Straighten garage door high lift jack.
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.
Finally fill in the outside of the wall with tapered pieces of sheathing and siding.
This conversion is accomplished by adding new tracks new springs new drums and new cables all while utilizing your existing garage door.
Only a torsion spring system can be used with a jackshaft garage.
If you have a high lift garage door you should know how crucial.
When you release the pressure on the jacks and remove the ledger and buttresses the wall should settle and any gap should disappear.
You won t need a new garage door as the actual dimensions of the door opening won t change.
Jackshaft garage door openers can be used on the following doors.
Full vertical lift garage doors.
If you re concerned about tackling this project on your own consider hiring out the job to a professional.
If it stays in place you did the job correctly.
Standard lift garage doors.
A high lift garage door conversion is a modification to an existing garage door s operating components to open at a higher level within the garage space.
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.
If a gap doesn t close up try laying a plank across the roof and pound on it with a sledgehammer.
Maintenance for a high lift garage door.
Lift the door up about 3 feet 0 91 m high and let it go.
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.