higher lift garage door tracks

[Beans]

Have a typical 16x7 garage door being run by a Genie device. Installed it all myself, works fine, a year old, slow but reliable. I have 10'-0" ceiling and was thinking about gaining that space, having tracks of garage go up another 24" closer to underside of bottom truss chord as they are about 8' off floor now. Probly a direct mount door operator and a set of extension track pieces?
Curious if anyone has done this, paid to have it done, etc.

 

[firebirdparts]

hundreds of us. Lots of threads on it. It appears to me there is a single vendor that handles the math.
https://ddmgaragedoors.com/diy-instructions/garage-door-high-lift-conversion.php
If there is anybody else selling these weirdo drums I haven't noticed. There might be.

 

[racecougar]

Yep, it's a common thing to do. I just did the same in my attached garage with a 10' ceiling and a 16'x7' door by raising the operator and having Overhead Door Co come out to raise the spring and tracks 12". Total cost was ~$250 and a couple hours of my time.

I had my shop set up with high lift tracks from the start with 16'x8' doors and a 12'7" ceiling height. I installed Liftmaster 8500 operators on those doors and have been very pleased with them.

 

[Theruse]

Not only will you benefit from additional clearance, but the Lftmaster 8500's are great. Quiet, faster, solid door lock mechanism and combined with MY-Q technology adds many features. As well, order the remote wall lights which can be placed anywhere you want. Customer support is great.

 

[racecougar]

Agreed. I love how quiet they are.

 

[Theruse]

Our master bedroom is above the garage. When he had Genie openers we knew when our teenage children came in. Not so with the Liftmasters. Thankfully, they have an app that let's you know when the garage door opens/closes. That was the excuse to keep our Iphones on the night tables.

 

[Beans]

great info, tks
didn't really know what concept was called or would have done a better search
gonna do some calc's, move forward