Weather and the sun are two major factors that rapidly destroy garage door built to fail. Although the majority of garage doors do not stand the test of time, there are a few custom craftsmen who rise to the top providing an exceptional high quality, hand-built custom garage door. Craig at Vintage Garage Door is one such craftsman who has a clear understanding of the requirements necessary to build a custom garage door to last over 25 years. Let us take a look at one aspect of Vintage Garage Door’s approach.
Vintage Garage Door believes services, at a minimum should include the following major areas:
- Custom & Quality
- Materials
- Build
- Finish
- Install
Let us look at just one of the many Build methodologies Vintage Garage Door employs today -
Vintage Garage Door will customize each door to your choice of build methods, processes, and/or materials. Many clients have chosen how Craig has built his own personal doors for their strength, durability, and beauty. Craig’s own personal doors are South and West facing enduring surface temperature readings of over 100 degrees in the dog days of summer, and, low teens in the winter with winds up to 70mph off Puget Sound. Utilizing his professional finishing services, the painted finish still looks new after 10 years of enduring the weather and sun. A true testimony to the quality of the professional finishing!Craig leverages over 33 years of experience in woodworking and finishes where many clients reduce risk, and, find comfort, security and peace of mind leveraging his knowledge and experience for their door decisions. In the end though, Vintage Garage Door’s product speaks for itself – Quality!
Utilizing premium materials and superior woodworking techniques, Vintage Garage Door hand inspects and moisture tests all wood prior to selection just like they were building a fine piece of furniture. The warping, bowing, cupping, waning so common in “doors built to fail” are all examples of inappropriate lumber selection and poor woodworking techniques where MANY manufacturers indicate their doors are “hand-made”; but in fact, are mass produced using automated machinery. ”Hand-made” in this environment consists of little more than pressing buttons or pulling a trigger.
Just one of Vintage Garage Door’s most popular build solutions for a custom garage door or a carriage house door includes the following:
(many others available – the choice is yours)
- Solid 3 1/4” ~ 8″ WIDE x 1 3/8″ THICK Douglas Fir for internal framing – Strong & Long lasting!
- Mortise & Tenon joinery for strength and durability; just like furniture
- Fully insulated with EPS, Expanded Polystyrene, CFC free; warm & quiet, pushing R values of 7.7 ~ 14.0
- External facia 1st layer – solid wood species of choice
- External facia 2nd layer – solid wood species of choice
- Internal facia – solid wood species of choice
- Plus, integrated drip caps and/or additional trim to ensure no end grain is showing
www.vintagegaragedoor.com provides a custom garage door solution that includes all of this, and more. Built in Seattle, take a look at their custom garage doors, and services to see how your garage door dreams can become a reality!
Craig@vintagegaragedoor.com, owner and master craftsman, will be a great asset for your custom garage door! Contact him today to put worry behind and start saving.
