Thanks for the video, Will! Glad I found it. We're having Overhead Door install a new door soon and the sales guy just threw us a curve when he offered their high vertical lift kit to the options. Adds about $1000, but man would it make the space above the door WAY more useful, as we have a super high ceiling. HOWEVER, like you, it's over the budget, so I asked about what you had done and the guy said it adds only $200-$300 to the price. A good compromise, I think, as it'll still really open up the space, as you noted.
I was told this type of installation (without shaft mount / without side mount) will stress the opener and damage the door. Is your door still holding well and were you told of similar concerns?
It wasn't so much about height the door was raised but, the additional length the door had to travel. In my case, the original opener and track combined with new tension springs did the trick.
No additional straight arm was used just the original one. They were off the shelf items that were adapted to fit my garage. Just a plain ole 3 car garage...nothing special.
I'm currently going through the "planning stage" of installing a hoist in my garage. That's the easy part, but - when my "fun" car is UP on the hoist, and IF I were to open my garage door in it's current configuration, the garage door would slam right into the front bumper of the "fun" car. No beino. Gotta figure a way to have the garage door HUG the inner garage ceiling a bit closer, to make everyone happy.
@@WillsWheels actually my first concept is to uninstall the garage door tracks, from the radius to the horizontal. Then simply add additional vertical track, and then reinstall the radius and horizontal tracks xxx inches higher / closer to ceiling. I currently have 24" between ceiling and open garage door. I hope I can reduce that to 12" or so inches.
@@ecpoirierwere you able to use straight pieces of track followed by the original 90 degree or did you have to use a small angle with a less than 90 degree like they did here?
I couldn't uninstall my vertical garage door tracks, because the builder thought that it would be a good idea to sink them into the concrete garage slab... I purchased a kit from @DDMGarageDoors. Flawless.
@lisaleedavidson I purchased new springs, radius and hardware from DDM Garage Doors. They have great customer support who answered all my questions (I didn't want to make a mistake)
All the cool stuff cost money. Funny i was thinking that you had alot of room to move the door up higher and why they didnt do that to begin with i have no idea. So much better
Had known they existed I would have asked for the upgrade when I bought the house. It's a major improvement. This RU-vid stuff has spoiled me seeing what others have in their garage..ma..halls....LOL
Um... kind of cool. Good to know about. Probably better to do it when the doors are originally installed vs retro-fitting. But the $10,000 question on everyone's mind is: How much did it cost??? And I agree with one of the commenters below... that every builder SHOULD be doing this. But, as a sometimes new home builder myself, the reason why don't is of course cost. There are 100's if not 1000's of little "improvements" builders could do to every new house... but then we'd make no money... so we wouldn't build any houses. But offering it as an upgrade is a great option. But none of my garage door vendors have ever even mentioned this to me as a possibility.
Every garage door place i talk to says I HAVE to buy a new side mount door opener even when I tell them ive seen conversion done and everything just raised up. They just want to sell you stuff to make more money.
@@WillsWheels thanks for the reply. Getting a few estimates in a few days. I have a hugh beam 8ft from the garage door. So I want to see if this could be done and also install a wall mount garage opener.
The high lift kit and replacement springs for both garage doors was about $1400. I'm trying to remember the cost of just the kit....around $500 ish. I would really recommend it.
