garage door help

[BigPolska]

I know you need 12 to 15 inches headroom from the top of the garage door to the ceiling to leave room for the operator and for the door to clear. My question is, do they make a low profile trac system if a person only has 10 1/4 inches? I am not worried about making an electric operator work, I will not be using the door that much, I just want it to clear the ceiling. Just wondering if this is a possibility. Thanks!

[blazerv10]

my buddys new shop door is about 3in off the ceiling the opener is on the wall.

[PAToyota]

Any garage door manufacturer has a low headroom track option:

[Dolbs4082]

You should have no problem finding a low headroom door. The company i sell threw, Midland Garage Doors out of Nebraska. They carry all kinds of low head room tracks, Depends if your wanting extension or torsion springs. Anything under 6" of head room will require a rear torsion or extension. Your best option would be an 8" low head room front torsion track. Usually cost around 65 bucks. (on top of the doors price)

[BigPolska]

Great, thanks!

I have a call in to a few door places about the low headroom tracks, appreciate all the help!

[Dolbs4082]

Hell, just realized your from KS, What part? Im located in Hillsboro working at a lumber/hardware store... Let me know if you have problems finding any info.

[ATVCONNECTION]

I was going to post a couple of photos of an opener that would work well for you but it appears this forum doesn't allow uploaded attachments. Which is really bad for a forum because if all photos are external links you end up over time with forum posts with broken photos that no longer exist. Nothing worse than being interested in a topic and all the photos are missing...

Rant over...

If you go to garagejournal.com and go into the forum and search on "liftmaster" you should find information on the perfect opener for a low clearance situation.

I have a pole building with plenty of clearance, but I'm going to go with this brand opener just because I like the clean install. Nothing mounted on the ceiling.

[PAToyota]

You've been here for over six years and don't know how to attach photos?

Top of every forum here...

[ATVCONNECTION]

Originally Posted by PAToyota

You've been here for over six years and don't know how to attach photos?

Top of every forum here...

My point being everyone should be able to upload photos without paying. There are far better ways to get revenue off of a forum. Restricting photos merely hurts the forum in the long run.

[BigPolska]

Originally Posted by Dolbs4082

Hell, just realized your from KS, What part? Im located in Hillsboro working at a lumber/hardware store... Let me know if you have problems finding any info.

Sorry, did not see this post until now... I am out in Western KS...

[BigPolska]

Appreciate all the information, but in the end I just had to frame out an opening where the door comes up above the bottom level of the trusses in order to get the ceiling in. Luckily, the trusses were set on 4' centers, and it worked out, just have a raised ceiling near the door, and it will be a good spot to install lights. The problem with the low profile track system, is the cable drums for the torsion spring lift get moved to the outside of the door track, so you need 6 inches of clearance on the outside of the door track on each side for the cable, it no longer runs inside the track next to the door. That was going to be a PITA (clearance issues) so I just threw up some 2x4s and called it a day.

[Todd W]

Originally Posted by BigPolska

Appreciate all the information, but in the end I just had to frame out an opening where the door comes up above the bottom level of the trusses in order to get the ceiling in. Luckily, the trusses were set on 4' centers, and it worked out, just have a raised ceiling near the door, and it will be a good spot to install lights. The problem with the low profile track system, is the cable drums for the torsion spring lift get moved to the outside of the door track, so you need 6 inches of clearance on the outside of the door track on each side for the cable, it no longer runs inside the track next to the door. That was going to be a PITA (clearance issues) so I just threw up some 2x4s and called it a day.

Take some pics, sounds kind of round about ??

I had 2 low head garage doors installed recently, and I don't think you can get any closer to what we fit. Hell, we notched the floor joists to get it tucked up as far as possible

I can get pics if you need some ideas ???

[BigPolska]

Thanks for the offer for the pics, but it is framed out now, and it works, so I won't mess with the tracks at this point.

The tracks are already pretty tight to the ceiling; probably about 3 or 4 inches to spare between the door and the ceiling when it is opened. The problem was when the door is first opened, the panel "breaks over" and in the process of going from vertical to horizontal on the track, it rises above the bottom of the truss plane. This worked fine for awhile, until I decided to screw sheeting onto the bottom of the trusses for a ceiling; now the door panel would run right into the sheeting if I screwed it to the bottom of the trusses. I just ended up boxing in the truss, creating a 5 1/2 inch deep raised ceiling area for the sheeting, and the door operates fine. Gave me a place to install lights, so it worked out.

I was all aboard the low headroom door track idea, until the door man told me I would have to move the cable drums to the outside of the tracks. That won't work because I have a wall within an inch of the current tracks on one side, and I did not want to have to rip it down. He also had a short panel that would have worked, but again, I liked the door and $15 worth of lumber got me going. I wished I had planned for a ceiling in the beginning, it was my fault for not having enough clearance. In the end it worked out.

[the burbanator]

I believe they make a top brackenfor the top
Section that cuts the break over angle down. Never use them in commercial and I don't get into residential a whole lot