ceiling height
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Racer
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ceiling height
A question for those of you who have four post lifts. I have a chance to add another bay on my garage cheaply. Because of storm damage. I have 107" of headroom in my two bays now. The third stall I think I can drop the floor another 24" to give me about 131" of head room. Without making the front of the house look like crap. Is this enough for a lift? or should I go through the trouble and expense of raise the ceiling inside the garage even higher. About how high do most of the four post lift raise up?
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I have 120" of ceiling height and can get my car up where I can stand under it. That is only being able to use an actual 117" of the ceiling height. It works, but I do wish I had another 13" to use my full lift height!
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I have just under 11 foot ceilings and I am able to stand up under the car. I am a little over 6 feet tall. Sure beats lying on your back 
I moved the tracks closer to the ceiling and also moved the electric opener so it's located over the hood area rather than the roof of the car. That gives you a little more lift room.
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I have 111". I can't stand under my car but I can store any two corvettes (at least any combination of C2,C3, and C4) on my 4 post with the garage door open or closed. I altered my garage door to hug the ceiling. I use an adjustable height rolling chair on casters to work under the car, works very well and is compfy. I have a Rotary and love it.
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cramus,
I started out with just a 110" floor to ceiling height. Installed a 4-post Superior lift back in 2001. Best thing I did to allow me to "play" with the '5.
Here's a couple of pics after ceiling surgery (increased the height by 2' on the short side). Did also re hang all the tracks closer to the ceiling including the actual lift motor. Believe the tracks are like 10" from the ceiling. As you can see this is a standard 24x26 garage with a hip roof. Needless to say she's tight but I truly can stuff 3 vehicles in there and still open doors.
Regards,
Jim
I started out with just a 110" floor to ceiling height. Installed a 4-post Superior lift back in 2001. Best thing I did to allow me to "play" with the '5.
Here's a couple of pics after ceiling surgery (increased the height by 2' on the short side). Did also re hang all the tracks closer to the ceiling including the actual lift motor. Believe the tracks are like 10" from the ceiling. As you can see this is a standard 24x26 garage with a hip roof. Needless to say she's tight but I truly can stuff 3 vehicles in there and still open doors.
Regards,
Jim
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I have a 12' ceiling, and after the "high-lift" conversion of the 18' x 8' door in the lift bay, I can open the door fully with a car at full standing working height on the lift. Horizontal tracks are 8" from the ceiling, operator track is 2" from the ceiling.
