This one was a fun transformation. Our customer in Olathe had a pair of 8x7 doors and was outgrowing them, the SUV hatches were practically clipping the top of the openings every time they backed out, and the husband was considering a truck that wasn't going to fit at all. They wanted a double wide opening instead of two singles, and they wanted it tall enough to stop worrying about clearance.
When we opened things up, we found out the original builder had actually framed for an 8-foot door height to begin with and then somebody dropped a 7-foot door into it. So they'd been living with a door a foot shorter than the opening was built for.
The concrete worked out in our favor, the existing slab was clean across the whole opening, no center post or footing in the way, or rain lip to cut so we didn't have to touch the floor at all.
Once the framing was done, in went a DoorLink 3690 in gray, a solid insulated door, big enough to handle what they throw at it. We took their existing Chamberlain opener with the big-box store rail off and replaced it with a LiftMaster G2778, which is a proper one-piece rail instead of the snap-together rail that can wear faster over time on larger doors. Hauled off the old doors, the old opener, and the rotted lumber. Done in a day.
The customer walked out to one big clean opening with a door tall enough to fit whatever they want to park under it.
