Rollup door to dang short by 8"
Soooo disappointed. DW and I have decided to move out of the home we have lived in for almost 36 years. We found a house in a rural area on 1 acre of land. A BEAUTIFUL home only 8 years old with a 24'...
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57 Panhead wrote:Dayle1 wrote:
Assuming that the walk-thru door is a standard 80 inch door, then it looks like the larger door opening is about 13 ft tall. So does that mean the clearance is less than the door opening due to the roll-up door hanging too low? If so, I agree that a sectional door can fix the clearance issue by allowing full use of the frame opening. How wide is the door, maybe 14ft? My sectional door is 13-1/2 ft tall and 14 ft wide and I wouldn't want anything less. It is a commercial insulated steel door and weighs about 400 lbs. I also recommend the Chamberlin Liftmaster door opener, it mounts on the torsion bar shaft, self programs stop points and works great. Much better than the usual chain drive system with a very long chain.
Sadly that is not the case. The door is just over 6' and the siding is not 10" per panel but 9". I just ran up there to re-measure and it is 146" from the concrete to the header. Wish it wasn't so but it is what it is.
Steve
Steve,
Thanks for the clarification. If it were my problem, I would take a good look at raising the building, maybe about 10". My 3300 SF weld-up steel building for house, garage and RV garage only has 16,000 lbs of steel, so your building weighs less than 5000 lbs, probably not much over 4000 lbs.
