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Installing A Lift In Your Garage - Uplifting Experience

What To Consider When Shopping For An Automotive Lift For Your Home Garage
January, 2008
By Rocky Rotella
Photography by Rocky Rotella
Automotive Lift For Your Home Garage Working
Automotive Lift For Your Home Garage Four Post Lift
Two-post lifts must be anchored... 
   
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Automotive Lift For Your Home Garage Four Post Lift
Two-post lifts must be anchored to the floor and require a minimum floor thickness of approx-imately 6 inches of high-tensile concrete. After countless considerations, we ultimately settled on a four-post unit from Direct Lift. Our model is fairly compact, contains a maximum capacity rating of 7,000 pounds, operates on a household 110-volt current, and can raise a vehicle to a maximum height of 6 feet in a little more than a minute-for around $2,000. Though this unit doesn't need to be anchored down, it's an option we plan to exercise in the near future. Also, casters attached to each column provide complete mobility.
Automotive Lift For Your Home Garage Tracks
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Automotive Lift For Your Home Garage Tracks
Most residential single-car garage doors are extension sprung, and when open, the door is slightly taller than the exterior doorframe. Running the door closer to the ceiling can increase clearance above the vehicle, but drawbar-type automatic openers are oftentimes out of the question.
Automotive Lift For Your Home Garage Raised Tracks
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Automotive Lift For Your Home Garage Raised Tracks
Using the existing exterior door, The Door Doctor, in Omaha, Nebraska, lengthened our door's tracks, converted it to torsion-sprung...
Automotive Lift For Your Home Garage Liftmaster 3800
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Automotive Lift For Your Home Garage Liftmaster 3800
...and added a Chamberlain Liftmaster 3800 Jackshaft automatic opener in the process. The entire conversion, including parts and labor, was around $1,200.

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