High Lift Garage Door Specs

Typical garage doors arch open into the garage at a standard height of approximately 7 8 feet.

High lift garage door specs.

Across the door bar latch inside only. We design and engineer residential garage door openers commercial door operators and gate entry systems. 2 garaga strongly recommends the use of safety cables with extension springs for security. 12 radius 12 required.

Double end roller backets and long stem rollers. Instead the garage door opens straight up and at a slight angle backward. 1 garaga recommends the use of torsion springs for improves door operation and increased safety. Used for typical applications.

Low headroom front mount spring. Complete with night lock with an outside cylinder and handle recommended for manually operated doors only. A low lift garage door will feature a curve with a radius of 10 inches whereas a high lift garage door has a curve with a radius of 15 inches. Standard on doors wider than 16 2 4928mm.

Low headroom rear mount spring. 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. 15 radius 14 25. High lift garage doors have a longer straight portion of track between the top roller and the curved portion of the track as pictured on the left.

8 216 mm. Because of this process they can only be installed in garages that will allow an additional foot of clearance between the tracks and the garage ceiling. Most residential homes with garages have garage doors with standard lift. Most residential garage doors use less than 54 of high lift to fit in garages with ceilings that are 12 high or less.

The tracks of a high lift garage door however first extend up vertically past the door opening to provide more space. With assembly these high lift parts cost 200 00 plus the cost of the tracks springs and extra shipping. Recommended for high lift and vertical lift door applications. Residential garage door track options.

Most common garage door track. Garage living can take this extra space and create enough clearance to accommodate a car lift. 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. Then they curve back into the garage.

These are normally shipped same or next day. The standard circle radius for a curved garage door track is 12 inches. 10 254 mm radius 3 note. This is a significant amount of space that can be better utilized.

Across the door bar latch. Vertical lift garage doors do not have any curved portions of the track.