Sectional Garage Door Ceiling Clearance

We have an older home 45 years plus and we replaced the one piece garage door with a garage door that breaks down in to 4 sections we used this with our low ceiling due to not have enough clearance.

Sectional garage door ceiling clearance.

Most standard garage doors with extension springs require a minimum of 10 inches of headroom. There is a garage door accessory called a low clearance bracket kit or low headroom kit. When a garage door opens it rolls back on horizontal tracks. 304 mm available it is best to use a dual track system designed for low headroom.

12 radius 12 required 15 radius 14 25 required. Most common garage door track. 11 5 8 14 1 4 thru 16 0 o h. 121 mm to 12 in.

In order to install torsion spring hardware we recommend a clearance of 12 in. Dimension charts for sectional track sectional doors track headroom and backroom clearance standard lift track headroom clearance dimensions door height centerline of shaft minimum headroom 2 track 15 radius thru 12 0 o h. It can be used on any sectional garage door that has clearance problems due to low ceilings or obstructions allowing the garage door opener track to be mounted much closer to the top of the garage door than is usually possible. It allows the doors to run on a high and a lower track at the same time taking care of the low clearance problem.

On the other hand if there is only 4 in. Used for typical applications.