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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 because for years, builders have always had to just go with a flush door, and the flush doors, and that's about it----"
" -Right."
" -or they're paneled doors, but you've kind of started a revolution in terms of making garage doors that look like the old-time ones, right?"
" -We have, since the in 1980s. We started looking at the windows in the home and bring in the whole concept of complimenting the home with the garage doors kind and service doors----"
" -Uh huh."
" -entrance doors, so they all go together."
" -As well as replicating those old beautiful doors that just open out, that swung out of old garages----"
" -Correct."
" -where you 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 were the first ones to come out with that swinging look and feel that that really adds to the authenticity of the product."
" -Yeah, 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 a Legal automatic operating door."
" -Right because there's a lot of safety considerations involved----"
" -Definitely."
" -in automatic doors. Well, let's look closely at the hardware and the meat and potatoes of the thing because these are not hooked up. We're gonna be putting garage door openers, a lot of them in another week or so once we've put all our drywall up and the ceiling's in place, but tell me a little bit about the features of the door."
" -Well, in terms of the hardware, the track is supported with an angle mount that is lagged into the jam. You can see it's a 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, and----"
" -What's the gauge of that?"
" -This would be a about 11 gauge."
" -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?"
" -The track is again, commercial grade. Very heavy duty. All of our hardware is second to 90. You see on the bottom fixture. We put the lap underneath the doors so you get a lot of lifting power because that is what the spring is attached to is the bracket, and the entire lift of the door is off the bottom of the door."
" -So it's happening off the bottom of the door so that's where you want the really sturdy steel."
" -Right."
" -How does the door operate? I mean, how do those big springs work up there?"
" -Well, the springs are wound up on a bar that produce a lift on the cable. A little difficult see the springs as they're above the door."
" -Yeah."
" -But, as the door is going up, the 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 a drip cap that prevents the water from getting in behind where the V grooves are."
" -So that this piece cut at an angle allows the water to shut away."
" -Exactly. And that is integrated right into the door."
" -Uh huh."
" -Another weather product or a feature is we angle, put a 10-degree angle on this trim board below the windows."
" -Uh huh. What about the construction of the door itself because we're looking at the beautiful cedar on the outside correct."
" -Correct."
" -The door is started with a Douglas fir framework, which is a product that has a lot of sap content and very rigid. Doug fir has been used for many, many years. In fact, we've gone back to doors that are 100 years old, and that is the product that they used----"
" -Yeah."
" -and that's why they lasted."
" -Yeah. I know it's good stable wood. And then you've got insulation inside there."
" -Correct. And we also have a vent fold to allow the condensation that might form inside the framework to allow that to breathe out. So on the jamb boards which wrestled that patching, there is a weather seal that gets put on. The weather seal bunks up to the door when the door is closed."
" -Alright, so we are breathing out the jams for each of the doors in cedar that's already been pre-primed. and that's the trim that we're using throughout the entire house."
" -The weather seal is----"
" -There you go."
" -It has a flexible vinyl seal so when the door comes closed, it pushes against the [unk] rain----"
" -Uh huh."
" -and up in our country, snow, from entering into the garage. So the weather seal get that better one to the jam."
" -There you go. Things are nice and plumb here so we don't have to worry too much about bringing the door down to meet it. Now what about keeping the weather from coming in the bottom of the door? Is this a weather strip?"
" -Correct. This is a retainer; aluminum retainer that gets attached to the bottom of the door with stainless steel screws. What installs into the retainer is a Buell rubber gasket that slides into the tracks creating a seal as the door comes close. And that seal will then squeeze down and prevent rain or snow from coming under the door."
" -Right. So it acts like a gasket."
" -Exactly."
" -Alright. Now let me---- you got that Russ? Okay. Let me just take a quick look at these because I noticed you also made the doors for our side openings. And these are 3 feet x 8 feet."
" -Correct."
" -And the same thickness and insulating. Now, this of course will be hung traditionally with big oversized hinges."
