yoderjac
Well-Known Member
As some of you know, we are living in the barn while building our retirement home. I'll soon be getting to the point where i need to order garage doors. I know many of you guys have experience with overhead doors. Any suggestions are welcome.
The garage is a large 3 bay. We have one door that is a little less than 20' wide. The other door is a normal 10' door. The trusses will be about 12' above the floor (floor is not yet poured). Our basement will also have an overhead door. This one is a tight fit. I only have about 10" above and to the sides of the opening. This basement door is on the opposite side of the house so it can be different than the garage doors.
In our barn, we put in typical sectional overhead doors with 2 tracks and a center motor. One of the issues I've found is that our UFO lighting up at the truss level is blocked by the door being open. It would also be nice to put a hoist up in the trusses near the door. That would help with off-loading heavy items, but again, the garage door blocks it.
I'm considering a rollup type door for the garage. I have plenty of head room and side room for a motor. The biggest issue with this is esthetics. My wife doesn't like the commercial look of narrow slats in front of the house. I get it, but personally, I'd live with it...but I'm married. I know they are a little more expensive than standard garage doors so I'll need to consider that.
I also found this Vertistack doors that stack panels. I think this might satisfy my wife from an esthetic perspective. There is another brand I found online called Rolflex but they are a Dutch company, and I'm not sure how much local support there is for installing these. It looks like a number of companies carry the Vertistack doors. From what I see online, they seem to be marketed and very high end homes and restaurant and such. All the ones I see are all glass panels. When I dug into it, I found you can get solid panels. I'm guessing these are probably significantly more expensive.
I've also see bi-fold doors but again, cost might be prohibitive.
By the way, the garage will be uninsulated except for the back that abuts the house. We will use spray insulation on that wall. That lets me keep the roof trusses completely open and I don't have to drywall them. I plan to use UFO lighting in the garage like the barn. In general, things are moving fast and it is hard to stay ahead of things. They are installing the siding this week.
I guess at a minimum, I can get standard sectional doors for the garage with a side mount motor at least eliminating that center track, but I'd really like to eliminate the side tracks some how. I think I'm resigned to a sectional door in the basement with tracks since there is no head room for any roll storage above the opening. I might get lucky and be able to fit a side mount motor between trusses or something, but I think I might be stuck on this one.
So, any suggestions or experiences with overhead doors would be appreciated.
The garage is a large 3 bay. We have one door that is a little less than 20' wide. The other door is a normal 10' door. The trusses will be about 12' above the floor (floor is not yet poured). Our basement will also have an overhead door. This one is a tight fit. I only have about 10" above and to the sides of the opening. This basement door is on the opposite side of the house so it can be different than the garage doors.
In our barn, we put in typical sectional overhead doors with 2 tracks and a center motor. One of the issues I've found is that our UFO lighting up at the truss level is blocked by the door being open. It would also be nice to put a hoist up in the trusses near the door. That would help with off-loading heavy items, but again, the garage door blocks it.
I'm considering a rollup type door for the garage. I have plenty of head room and side room for a motor. The biggest issue with this is esthetics. My wife doesn't like the commercial look of narrow slats in front of the house. I get it, but personally, I'd live with it...but I'm married. I know they are a little more expensive than standard garage doors so I'll need to consider that.
I also found this Vertistack doors that stack panels. I think this might satisfy my wife from an esthetic perspective. There is another brand I found online called Rolflex but they are a Dutch company, and I'm not sure how much local support there is for installing these. It looks like a number of companies carry the Vertistack doors. From what I see online, they seem to be marketed and very high end homes and restaurant and such. All the ones I see are all glass panels. When I dug into it, I found you can get solid panels. I'm guessing these are probably significantly more expensive.
I've also see bi-fold doors but again, cost might be prohibitive.
By the way, the garage will be uninsulated except for the back that abuts the house. We will use spray insulation on that wall. That lets me keep the roof trusses completely open and I don't have to drywall them. I plan to use UFO lighting in the garage like the barn. In general, things are moving fast and it is hard to stay ahead of things. They are installing the siding this week.
I guess at a minimum, I can get standard sectional doors for the garage with a side mount motor at least eliminating that center track, but I'd really like to eliminate the side tracks some how. I think I'm resigned to a sectional door in the basement with tracks since there is no head room for any roll storage above the opening. I might get lucky and be able to fit a side mount motor between trusses or something, but I think I might be stuck on this one.
So, any suggestions or experiences with overhead doors would be appreciated.
