High Lift Garage Door Specs

1 garaga recommends the use of torsion springs for improves door operation and increased safety.

High lift garage door specs.

Instead the garage door opens straight up and at a slight angle backward. This is a significant amount of space that can be better utilized. Double end roller backets and long stem rollers. Complete with night lock with an outside cylinder and handle recommended for manually operated doors only.

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. 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. 10 254 mm radius 3 note. Vertical lift garage doors do not have any curved portions of the track.

If an electric operator is being used add 2 51 mm to the headroom required. 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. Recommended for high lift and vertical lift door applications.

15 radius 14 25. The tracks of a high lift garage door however first extend up vertically past the door opening to provide more space. Most residential garage doors use less than 54 of high lift to fit in garages with ceilings that are 12 high or less. Used for typical applications.

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. Garage interiors can be as high as 12 15 feet. Residential garage door track options. 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.

Across the door bar latch inside only. These are normally shipped same or next day. 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. Garage living can take this extra space and create enough clearance to accommodate a car lift.

Low headroom rear mount spring. Most residential homes with garages have garage doors with standard lift. Low headroom front mount spring. Across the door bar latch.

Most common garage door track. 8 216 mm. Then they curve back into the garage. 12 radius 12 required.

Standard on doors wider than 16 2 4928mm. The standard circle radius for a curved garage door track is 12 inches.