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Installing Custom-Style Insulated Cedar Faced Garage Doors
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Installing Custom-Style Insulated Cedar Faced Garage Doors
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" This is something that I really admire -- for years. Builders have always had to just go with a flush doors and the flush doors and that's about it. Or -- paneled doors but you've kind of started a revolution in terms of making garage doors that look -- feel time -- We -- out since the in 1980s. We started looking at the windows in the home and bringing in. Whole concept of call Maine home. With a grudge -- kind answer restorers. Entrance doors they'll go together as well as replicating those old beautiful doors that used to just open out that swung out of old garages pretty had your little model T. And if you stand back and look at this door you see right down the middle. It looks like it's double swing doors correct we're the first ones commode that swinging look and hand feel that that really adds to the I authenticity of the the product yes it really does now there is nobody in the door industry making that type of door that actually swings out right that's correct that's not -- Legal automatic operating door right because there's a lot of safety considerations involved in automatic doors well let's let's look closely at the via the hardware and the meat dictators that they think is. These are not hooked up we're going to be putting garage door openers on another week -- so once we've put all our drywall ceiling. Place but tell me a little bit about the features of the door. Well in terms of the -- where the track is supported with an angle mount that is leg into the gym. Can see it's continuous angle that prevents any. Fingers from getting in behind the track it is also much stronger than a bracket mount system. That is secured by just a few brackets what's the gauge of that. This would be a little heavy gauge so that this is a nice sturdy angle. Iron almost and of course it angles back on the side and is attached to the framing there. What about the track itself. On track is again. Commercial grade. Very heavy duty all of our hardware is second -- you see on the bottom fixture. We put the but -- underneath -- get a lot of lifting power because that is what the spring's attached to is the bracket. In the the entire lift of the door is. It's off the bottom so it's happening off the bottom and doors and that's where we want the really sturdy steel how. Does the door operate I mean how do those big springs work up. The springs are wound up on any bar. That produce a lift on the cable. Little difficult see this breaks deserve both outdoor. But as the door is going out this spring is turning releasing the pressure off the cable. So by the time the door gets fully open the cables are almost slack or relaxed what about the door itself. For weather seal we use the drip -- That prevents the water from getting in behind wouldn't be group or so that this piece cut at an angle also watered shuttle -- exactly and that is integrated. -- into the -- and another weather product or a feature. Is we angle but it can degree angle on this trim board below the windows. What about the construction of the shorts off his we're looking at their beautiful cedar on the outside correct. The the door started with a Douglas fir framework. Which is the product that has a lot of sap content. And very rigid Jennifer's been used for many many years and that we've gone back doors that are hundred years old. And that is product that they used that avenue left to yet know it's good stable wood and then you've got. Insulation inside there correct and we also have eventful. To allow the condensation that might form. Inside the inside the framework to allow that to -- Reno. On the jamb boards which don't wrestle with Hannity. There is a weather seal that gets. Put on a whether he'll bumps up to the door when the doors were closed all right so we aren't renting out the in the -- streets of the doors. In cedar that's already been preprimed. And that's the trim that we're using throughout the entire house. BO weather seal is. It has. Flexible vinyl seal so when the door comes closed it pushes the send pre -- In up in our country snow interest. Into the ground number. The weather still get that better one to Vidalia. These are nice and plumb here. So we don't have to worry too much about bringing the door down to -- it. Now what about keeping the weather from coming in the bottom of the doors this whether -- Correct this is a retainer aluminum retainer that gets attached to find the door with -- stainless steel screws what installs into the retainer. Is the -- rubber gasket. That slides into the tracks green seal as the door comes close -- seal will then squeeze -- And prevent. Rain or snow from coming under the door right to it -- I think it. Exactly all right now let me you you got that Russ let me just take a quick look at these -- I notice you also may -- the door for our side openings. And these are three feet by eight feet. Read the same thickness and insulating. Now this of course will be hung traditionally with big oversized hinges."
