Expanding A Garage Door In A Basement

10 ways to expand into your garage.

Expanding a garage door in a basement.

To install a door in a concrete block wall you ll need to first create an opening for the door. That is the location of a future ramp to the basement so that the owner can drive push their lawnmower snowblower bikes etc from a mini garage door down to their massive basement storage area or extra garage. Similarly replacing any solid doors in the basement stairwell with glass doors also may help to increase the amount of natural light. There s no need to pour concrete.

There will be a solid door separating that portion of the basement from the main basement. Get off the ground with a simple treated wood foundation. An alternative would be a pocket garage door that slides sideways on tracks from within the garage door itself so that again the height or width are not effected. Create space in your garage for a motorcycle atv riding mower woodworking tools or odds and ends with this simple wood foundation addition.

On the second floor we d like a laundry room and a reading area within the addition and the studio would become kids rooms bath and hangout spot. Build it just like a deck platform. Within that addition we d like an expanded mud room in half of the first floor with the other half a more open breezeway to the garage with a barn door to be able to drive a mower through. The addition of a sliding glass door opened the space to the outside creating both a physical and visual connection to the yard.

The replacement garage door should be one that hangs above the front of the garage and lowers down from the outside so it doesn t affect the height of the garage. If the basement is served by a steel bulkhead a door with glass lights can be installed at the bottom of the steps and the bulkhead doors left open at least in good weather. I was surprised at how quickly the.