Converting Two Single Garage Doors to a Double Garage Door

If you are fortunate enough to own a large garage you will often have two single sized garage doors as your main form of entrance.

As attractive as these single sized doors can look you are losing a lot of usable space due to the central pillar between the two doors.

It is relatively easy to turn your single sized garage doors into one large double sized garage door thus utilising the full opening width to its maximum potential.

Before you consider converting your garages you need to check pricing and availability of the new double sized door. Being that these are often larger than any standard door you will need to look towards a company who manufacture bespoke doors that can be designed to fit your garage.

Choosing a respectable garage door company you may find they are able to carry out the conversion of your single doors for you as well as installing the garage door itself.

Converting the garage door is a relatively simple procedure. The basics are as follows:

Firstly a new lintel has to be arranged as almost certainly you will have two lintels at present resting on top of the centre pillar. Removing the centre pillar like this would result in the whole roof collapsing. The new lintel will be in one piece and spanning the whole opening width of your garage.

Using props to hold up the roof of the garage the new lintel is installed, resting on the brickwork either side of the garage. The central pillar is now removed. Be prepared for a lot of brickwork to be disposed of - often a skip is the only way to dispose of this. PVC cladding will most likely be required to cover over the lintel and make everything look nice.

You now have one large double opening ready to have your double sized garage door installed.

Whilst the above steps may sound simple, there are many different problems that you can come across in doing this work and as such you should seek professional advice before undertaking this work or better still - use an expert.

Nationwide offer bespoke garage doors for the UK. See an example of how we remove a central pillar here

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