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One of the more popular are the double roller low headroom top fixtures, also called quick close fixtures, quick closing fixtures and rapid flex brackets. For many decades these low headroom top fixtures have been used successfully on wood garage doors by lowering the top strut below the top fixture. Lowering the top strut on a steel garage door, however, compromises the section's integrity and has led to many damaged top sections. This tutorial offers one solution for installing low headroom double roller top fixtures without damaging the section. This will allow a door to operate with a headroom clearance between 9 and 12 inches. Â» DDM Home.
In any case, eight or nine feet is probably most common, but wider single doors are not that rare. Of course, if you need a double door, you may have to double that width. In other words, standard garage doors might be sixteen to eighteen feet wide, with some doors as wide as twenty feet. If you look at most older homes, you might notice that garages and garage doors are smaller than they are on new houses.