You may need a high lift conversion for your door so it opens at a higher level within your garage.
Ceiling height for lift.
If you can park your vehicle in the garage then you have enough floor space for a car lift.
A four post lift takes up much more room than a two post lift.
Required ceiling height calculator please select a four post lift.
Launch tlt240sb r red 9 000 lbs capacity floor plate symmetric 2 post low ceiling lift 2 650 00 2 399 00.
A four post lift makes it much easier to load and position the vehicle.
The sum of all those measurements would be the minimum amount of ceiling height required.
Minimum ceiling height for a lift discussion in the hokey ass message board started by kooldeuce mar 2 2006.
Your garage ceiling needs a minimum height of approximately 10 feet.
So if a lift is 100 tall the max lift height is probably more like 90 plus 60 for a vehicle gives you 150 total height needed.
Launch tlt240sc r 139 red 9 000 lbs cap.
The simple answer relating to minimum ceiling height required is to add the height of both vehicles and then add another 8 7 inches may be acceptable ask your salesperson as this measurement depends on the model of lift you buy inches to that total.
Measure the height of your vehicle and how high you want it and you should be able to figure it out i say 12 would do it.
To help place this in context many of their plans utilize 12 foot high framed walls while others use 8 foot to 10 foot framed structures with.
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Higher ceiling height is required for some of the four post storage lifts and anything designed for larger trucks.
Bendpak grandprix gp 7lcs low ceiling height 106 5 space saving two post lift 3 820 00 3 260 00.
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I have 10 4 celing in my garage and was looking into a 4 post lift for storage and there was no way to do it with that height unless i had 2 fiero s to stack up.
A two post lift will raise a car higher in a low ceiling garage.
The wisest thing you could do is measure the height of your garage and your vehicle then comparing those figures to the maximum lifting height of the lift you go for.
If you use scissor trusses to gain interior height the span the trusses make and the roof pitch will determine how tall your walls need to be.
The last thing is the garage door.
Ideally your ceiling.