Low headroom garage door

[mgbbob]

Hi folks,

I am still considering garage doors. I have a limited amount of headroom above my garage door. From the top of the header over the door opening I have 9" of clearance to the concrete deck ceiling.

I have emailed I Drive to see if there set up with long springs might work. I am also considering building carriage doors if a roll up won't work.

Does anyone have an experience?

Thanks,
Bob

 

[nova65ss]

With 9" of headroom you should be able to fit torsion and a standard opener with double low headroom track.

You can make extension springs and a standard opener work with 6" of headroom.

 

[go4dave]

Hi folks,

I am still considering garage doors. I have a limited amount of headroom above my garage door. From the top of the header over the door opening I have 9" of clearance to the concrete deck ceiling.

I have emailed I Drive to see if there set up with long springs might work. I am also considering building carriage doors if a roll up won't work.

Does anyone have an experience?

Thanks,
Bob

-------------- -------------- hey Bob, don't go with a standard opener,, they are ****. Use a liftmaster direct drive unit. It couples to the spring shaft, and it's quiet, smooth, and none of that "janky" useless **** that's just wastes space. (here are a couple pics) I'm really happy with mine,, i've got 14 inches more travel out of my car lift,, and now, i can stand my 8ft ladder straight up under the garage door tracks. My garage door runs,, within 1" of my ceiling.

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[nova65ss]

Problem is with the low headroom, the springs will wind backwards and you can't use the 3800. Well they say it will not work. I have always wondered if you can mount it upside down to the ceiling with reverse torsion but have not tried it yet.

 

[mgbbob]

I probably forgot to mention that I am 6'3" so the low tracks probably aren't a good choice. The folks with I Drive have a system to work with the long springs. It uses a dummy shaft across the middle.

I have email them also for more data. I will take a look at the Liftmaster stuff if I can find a web page.

Thanks for the posts and help.

Bob

 

[mgbbob]

I got on Garagegearstore and found the liftmaster!