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I’m currently building a garage/workshop in the style of a Vermont country barn. New metal garage doors just don’t fit the look. The high end custom wood doors are perfect but expensive. I need a pair of 9×8 doors with verticle, V-groove siding for the exterior. It would seem a fairly easy project to just make them on site. Anyone had experience or suggestions on sources for the door hardware? What about a book or articles? They will clearly be heavier than standard doors so I want sturdier door tracks and hardware.
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David, Go to your local Sourthern States farm supplier they should have all the hardware you'll need. Good Luck Bill Dalton Quality Wood Chips
*You might look at http://www.BARNPLANS.COM/ where they sell plans for various types of do-it-yourself barns and shops. They list a set of plans for bi-fold barn doors for $25 (click over on the left on "prices/order"). For hardware, unless you want something really fancy such as this:http://www.yellowknifeforge.com/Product%20Pages/barnhinge.htmor really heavy duty such as:http://www.crown-industrial.com/you may have to do some digging around as the farm stores around here sell the same type of Stanley hinges that you will find at your local big box store such as that shown at: http://www.usahardware.com/inet/webSession/shopper/US990797388-24644/store/dept-4/department/dept-4/item/40560/title/Gate+&+Barn+Door+Hardwarehttp://www.farmbid.com/SuperStore/SuperStore-Assortment.asp?AssortmentID=30
*The doors dudes just apply the veneer over a stock frame, but you can make your own frames and apply the finish and use the standard track & hardware. A good overhead door company will have no problem setting you up.
*David,What Qtrmeg said.One of the high end builders in this area, uses a stock - 4 horizontal pattern door, and attaches some boards onto them. Example - On a single door, they attach 1" x 4" boards around the perimeter and then a couple of vertical boards next to each other in the center.Wherever a vertical running board crosses where two horizontal panels meet, they cut ( before attaching)the vertical 1" x 4" at a 45 degree angle , leaving a slight gap so as not to bind. Now you have a door that looks like a carriage style door but is actually an overhead.A lot less $ than those $3000 garage doors I see advertised. I'm going to try this on my persnal house I'm currently building.DJ
*Hi DJ,I think this is what I'm contemplating, as well, but let me make sure I understand we are talking apples and apples. My garage has two doors that open out, perpendicular to the ground. I want one door that opens up, and resides under the roof (parallel to the ground :-) ), but on the outside, looks like my original doors which have non-opening windows--I'd like opening ones, and an X on top of the underlying slats. This is a very tiny single-car garage, and the integrity of the look is essential, but its current utility is unacceptable.The ads I've noticed seem to be charging upwards of $500 for metal ones--too ugly! Still, it seems the price could edge up there w/all the custom detail. Do you think $1500 sounds reasonable in my situation? (I realize costs are regional--I'm in San Diego.) TIAI'm going to re-contact fellow BT'er Michael Mahan as he recommended three, I think, garage door people, but I lost that info when my computer crashed (yeah, yeah, the drives were broken so I couldn't do backup). Now, to find his business card :-/
*I posted about this about 6 months ago, when I asked if anyone had used Designerdoors. Got some good advice about making my own, with details about cutting horizontal members with 10 degree bevels, using a piece of aluminum across the back to stabilize the door and notching all vertical members to eliminate end grain at butt joints.SHG
*SHGYou don't remember the name of that thread do you. And which section that it was in Without the search engine I don't know of any way of finding it and I am interested in doing this also.Thanks, Bill
*It was in construction techniques about last February or March. The title was something like "Anybody used designer doors for a garage door?" I tried to find it in the archives but didn't see it. It may be history by now. It's too bad, because I received some good advice. Little details that I wouldn't have thought of but would make a big difference. And some big ones that would save me from some major problems. Sorry.SHG
*SHGI did a search (opened each page of the archive and use Netscape Find) and found yours. Steve G "Anybody Use Garage Doors by Designer Doors?" 2/16/01 7:11pmbut no hints about making your own.And I found this one Sgian Dubh "Wood veneer on garage door/Carriage door" 2/20/01 11:33am with a little info about puting veneer on a metal door, but none of the hints that you are takign about.I wonder if you got some private email about this.Maybe the orginal poster will see this add to it.Thanks, Bill
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I'm currently building a garage/workshop in the style of a Vermont country barn. New metal garage doors just don't fit the look. The high end custom wood doors are perfect but expensive. I need a pair of 9x8 doors with verticle, V-groove siding for the exterior. It would seem a fairly easy project to just make them on site. Anyone had experience or suggestions on sources for the door hardware? What about a book or articles? They will clearly be heavier than standard doors so I want sturdier door tracks and hardware.