Garage Doors
The Garage Door in most cases is the largest moving object in your home It can go unnoticed for years until it breaks. We at garage door today are going to change your ideas about the garage door and show you some of the coolest garage doors on earth.
Custom garage doors can range from elegant to extravagant, an can have a hefty price tag ($2,000-20,000). These garage doors can be made out of many different materials, woods, composites, metals. So one question might be, what
classifies a garage door as a custom garage door. The answer to that has to with the size of the door and weight of the materials used. Not to mention a custom door is usually thicker than your sandard run-of-the-mill door.
Some of the woods that have been used on custom garage door in the past are mahogany, redwood, cedar, hemlock, and the door price in most cases is dependent on then availability of the wood. There is nothing that adds the wow factor to your house than adding a new mahogony door to your house. I mean look It covers a significant portion of the front of your house
Types of garage doors
Custom walkthru garage door
- Standard garage doors = standard garage doors are the type you get from your local door dealer, They tend to come in three varieties…. Steel Backed, Insulated and the dreaded non-insulated door… Do yourself a favor and at least pay the extra 300 or so dollars for a heavy duty steal backed door… Steel Backed garage doors are extra riged and last a long - long time. Insulated is less ridged and has… you got it foam or similar insulation inside. If you are going to put a non-insulated door at least make sure you are selling the house sometime soon.
Pros‘ =inexpensive, low maintenance cons‘ = not that fun to look at
- Custom garage doors = these are the types that are large oversized doors with heavy duty torsion springs, some times these doors can weigh in excess of 750lbs… many exotic woods can be used and the woods for these garage doors usually come in paint grade or stain grade…
Pros‘ = Exquisite, beautiful, increase home value cons’ = costs an arm and a leg
- Commercial garage doors= these are the doors used in your local auto shop all the way up to doors used in aircraft hangers… They come in the roll up variety, sectionals and a folding variety…