Garage Door Brand Recommendations?

trudymom

15 years ago

Any garage door brands out there that you like?

Thank you!

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sue36
15 years ago
Our doors are from Overhead Door. The service was excellent and they offer doors with a high R value (we heat our garage).
liptonjl
15 years ago
trudymom,

Our garage door is a CHI, I think the R value is between 11 and 12, it's carriage style. We're really happy with it!
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Marvelous, The best way to find quality doors & openers is through a good independent door installer in your area (word of mouth from other customers the best way). I've installed doors for Lowes and for our own Company, found that those companies push the lower end doors & openers. The Liftmaster 3850 is a great choice for the opener (belt drive, battery backup & solid rail construction). It is very quiet in it's class. The previous CR rating was high (#1) for it's predecessor LM 2500. It has a soft touch on the door rather than the fast & tough touch of the Genie. It sounds that you may get alot of Sun Exposure on your door, stay away from dark color doors. Garage Doors between companies matchup pretty good apples to apples. Its when you mix a apple with an orange & thought you had a good buy but it is a lesser quality door. Check for construction (1-3 layers)& R-Values as a start. Hope this helps.
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mary 228 you said in your original post that you had a single, steel door. If by this you mean a one car garage then I would purchase the 1/3 HP unit. Otherwise I would go with the 1/2 HP. I wouldn't be scared off by the number of Craftsman post here. First of all Sears sells more than everyone else combined. Some things most of the posters have in common. The opener was in the house when they bought it, they don't have an owners manual and other than pushing a couple of buttons they don't know a thing about their opener. Doesn't make them bad it's just the way things are.
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Lift Master side mount. Quiet and no unit in the middle.
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jaymielo
15 years ago
Our garage doors were just installed and I LOVE them. The doors are cedar and River Pointe Carriage House Doors by Raynor. They will be stained this week to match the shake siding.
mikeyvon
15 years ago
liptonjl and jaymielo - you both have fabulos looking garage doors. Mind sharing how big of dent they took out of your wallet?
liptonjl
15 years ago
mikeyvon - our garage door was $2200 with the wrought iron accents and tax! Not cheap, but not ridiculous either!
jaymielo
15 years ago
mikeyvon, Our garage doors were $2425 apiece for a 8'x8' garage door, so not cheap either, but since the front of our house is a whole lot of garage, we felt it was essential to the exterior. It was actually kind of funny because DH and I had been researching wooden garage doors for months and finding much higher price points. When we finally stumbled upon these doors, asked how much they were and were told, our eyes lit up and we immediately ordered three. In retrospect, I think the salesman thought we were crazy 'cuz he expected us to gasp at the price instead of giggling with glee.
fairytalebaby
15 years ago
trudymom...we went with Clopay and love it. It's so quiet and smooth. Here's a picture of it painted but the arch trim wasn't finished.

I think it was under $2,000
klabio
15 years ago
I spent some time this spring going to the home shows looking at all the brands available locally. There are a lot more garage door companies than I realized.

I ended up getting a referral by someone at work to an installation company further away than I had been looking. They ended up being significantly less expensive than anyone else who quoted me.

My doors are from Haas Door. They are insulated at R13 and are steel with a composite overlay to create the carriage look. Amazingly, they cost me $1350 each installed plus opener for an 8x9.

Probably the only complaint about the doors is that they have single pane glass, which seemed odd for an insulated door, but the price really knocked my socks off so I am thrilled.

Here is a link that might be useful: Haas Door

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