Question:
We have a standard, two-car garage with an old, steel, tilt-up garage
door. The previous owner built an un-permitted room along one side of
the garage which prevents us from simply installing a tracked, roll-up
garage door.
The problem has escalated because my wife's new car is just 1.5 inches
too tall for our old, bent garage door!
Our first option is to replace the old one with a new, straight tilt-
up, which would give us enough height for the car.
My question is, why doesn't anyone sell/install residential roll-up
garage doors that completely roll up into themselves, like you often
see on commercial garages and warehouses? That would certainly solve
our problems.
Answer:
Probably because there isn't sufficient market for them.
You might consider modifying/removing the unpermitted room so a
conventional, tracked door could be used.
Failing that, I'll bet any commercial garage door company could do what you
need. Just go out to the money tree and grab-off an extra-large handful and
go for it.
Roll up doors are available everywhere and the most common usage is self storage facilities. They are much less expensive than residential doors but they just don't look right in a residential setting because
the horizontal stiffening ribs are so prominent. A 10' wide by 7' door sells for under $200 at some of the box stores. Some Yellow Pages and Google research might locate something you could live with.
