Anyone gone from 7' to 8' overhead door?

[EB.Bldr]

Wondering if anyone has installed a taller, 8', door on there garage.?.

I have plenty of height to go with a taller door and would really enjoy the extra clearance for my truck. Currently I have a 7x18 door and clear the opening, with the weather stripping removed, by about 1/8".

Dosent seem it would be to difficult.

 

[EB.Bldr]

Couple pics for reference. Interior shows plenty of room. And an additional of the clearance issue....Gets tricky if there is any snow on the ground...

 

[koditten]

Is your door on the eave side or the gable end. If your door is on the eave end of the building you may not have enough space for a proper header. The header is there to sapport the trusses of your roof. It must be strong enough to hold all this weight.

If on the gable end, go for it. The header doesn't need to sapport much more than the building sheeting and siding.

Show some pics of the outside, you will most likely get many more replys.

 

[EB.Bldr]

Our house has a, square hip?, roof so the side the door is on has a small section of roof that it supports. The ceiling joists do run toward the door.

For reference I have, 30" inside between the door caseing and ceiling drywall, and 21" outside. Here is the only pic from the outside I have currently.

 

[Gary S]

My Son and I replaced an old 9x7 door on his shop with a 16x8 door. You simply take out the old door, tear out the wall and reframe it to the new size. Then you put in the new door and finish up the siding and the interior wall again.
It is pretty basic construction work.

 

[danski0224]

It can be done.

Build a temporary wall inside to support the ceiling joists.

Remove everything in the way. Plan your cuts.

Put the new header in.

Rebuild.

Make sure you put in a 3" thick 14" tall LVL instead of double 2 x 12".

 

[ducati]

If your roof is trussed, you will have a concentrated load on that header, If it is stick built roof, you won't. Either way, it will be a doable job, it just depends on what type of load you are asking the header to carry. Any lumberyard that sells LVL's will be able to size what you need for a beam (other than big box stores, I don't know if they can because I don't ever work with them?) Anyway the info that you will need is how deep is the roof? What pitch is the roof? Is it trussed or stick built? If it is trussed, at what point did they run the girder that has your hip jacks and start your step up trusses? How far in is the center of your garage door from the corner of your house?

 

[bczygan]

It can be done.

Build a temporary wall inside to support the ceiling joists.

Remove everything in the way. Plan your cuts.

Put the new header in.

Rebuild.

Make sure you put in a 3" thick 14" tall LVL instead of double 2 x 12".

The above answer is the proper method. It is not a small job. It is not cheap. The 3 1/2" x ? LVL header will be expensive. You will HAVE to support the roof with a temporary wall close to the opening during removal. Careful cutting will minimize the amount of re-trimming needed. Get your LVL supplier to engineer the required size. Give him the dimensions of your garage and roof framing design. Dimensional lumber (2x's) will NOT do for this. All garages should be built this way.