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title: Garage Door Track for Your Home
description: Home Garage Door Track vary based on headroom availability.  Learn the different garage door tracks available.
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# [Garage Door Track for Your Home](https://www.overheaddoorco.com/blog/garage-door-track-for-your-home)

 Written by [Blog Master](https://www.overheaddoorco.com/blog/author/blog-master) | May 2, 2017 1:02:00 PM

Understanding the working elements of a complex system, such as your garage door track, can only lead to a better overview of a product when it comes time to repair or replace such items.

Sectional garage doors and electric opener systems are seemingly simple items in their function, but having a working knowledge of specific parts and operations can extend your door/opener lifetime.

Bracket Track: A Traditional Part to a Garage Door

Traditional tracking for residential garage doors is hot-dip 16 ga. galvanized steel.  Depending upon headroom availabililty, distance between the top of a closed garage door and the lowest point of the ceiling, different ‘radius’ track systems are available.  The more standard being a 12” radius track. 

When headroom availability is limited, less than 12”, a low headroom track provides a second horizontal piece of track is used. 

For side room entry door access to the garage in the area of the track placement, a larger 32” radius track could be utilized for pedestrian safety clearance.

Specialty tracks are also available.  Follow the roofline track as well as a hi-lift vertical track to allow the homeowner to stack multiple cars in one bay.

 

Custom powder-coated colors are also available.

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