Storage Solution
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Storage Solution
These are not great pictures, but this has been a great solution for me on getting more cars in the garage. My 3 car garage is now a 4 car garage, and came become a 6 car garage as needed. Man I cannot wait to fulfill that need.
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From: Crystal Lake IL
Originally Posted by navytri
How tall is the inside of your garage?
I have 8" of clearance from the top of the Reatta to the ceiling. It really worked out slick.
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Originally Posted by navytri
How tall is the inside of your garage?
Mine is 8' 7". If I didn't back the car on, I would not have gotten Max hight. Worse case scenario is that they can add track to the garge door opener, and another section of garage door on the inside so that knowbody can see it to give me more clearance. With the current stable of cars I did not need to do that so I save $1,600.00.
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Originally Posted by C-INRED
Brand, source and cost of lift?
Found it on line, then went to distributors to find a local dealer.
Was going to have "garage store and more" get it for me, but the price kept changing. So I asked my dealer about it, and he hooked me up with the guy who works on the dealership lifts. He got it for me in 10 days.
It cost $3,450.00 plus $450.00 to have it installed, $3,900.00 complete.
The come in Black, Blue, Yellow and Red.
There is a bigger one that max hight is 6'4" but with the size of my garage, it was a waste to get the bigger one, even though it was only $250.00 more.
I am very satisfied!
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Originally Posted by C-INRED
Brand, source and cost of lift?
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I did the same in my garage. My garage ceiling height is 11 feet and I had a high lift garage door installed so that I can use my American Custom Lift ACP-7SUV and lift the C6 so that I have 72 inches beneath the ramps. I park my Fleet 06 Chevy Equinox AWD under the lift with no problems. The nice thing about the high lift door is that my door opener is now attached to the rod which holds the balance springs and is a DC Motor. The door opens very quiet with the DC Motor and I have all the space in the center of the ceiling open.