Tennis Ball On A String

When parking a car in a garage, it can be difficult to tell where to cease the automobile so it clears the garage door. Here's how to make a garage parking judge that raises upward out of the mode when the garage door closes and lowers when the door opens.

Garage Parking Gauge

Attach a screw center hook to the ceiling then that it is plumb with the desired stopping location for the front of the car.
With the garage door open, attach a 2d heart hook betwixt the first hook and the garage door.
Punch or drill a pigsty through a lawn tennis ball, run a piece of string through the hole, and necktie a knot beneath the tennis brawl.
Thread the string through both center hooks and adhere it to the open garage door and so the tennis ball is level with the front of the machine when the garage door is open up.

When the garage door closes, the lawn tennis brawl will exist pull up and out of the style. Watch this video to discover out more than.

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VIDEO TRANSCRIPT
Joe Truini: Whenever you park in a garage, you have to play a guessing game of knowing how far in to pull the car and then the door tin can close behind yous.

You may accept seen this trick before where you hang a lawn tennis ball from the ceiling, then y'all pull forrad just far enough so that the car hits the tennis brawl. And so yous know yous're in the proper distance.

So nosotros've upgraded this tip and improved it past running a cord upwardly and across the ceiling, through a couple of screw hooks, and then tied off the opposite end of the string to the garage door.

Now, depending on the depth of your garage and the size of your auto, you lot may have to suit the height of the ball. So get out a lot of extra string hanging, and then just tie it off where you need it, so information technology only contacts the automobile.

And now when you close the garage door, as the door goes downwards, the string and the brawl motility up and out of the way.