I’ve been looking into carriage-house style garage doors and the ones I like from Clopay’s limited edition reserve collection are really expensive. The look I’m after is the one marked “Design 8” in the attached jpeg. A buddy was telling me that he has seen units where you can add your own wood panels to the front to get the look you are after, but he can’t recall what make. Anyone ever heard of anything like that? Steve
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Did that with dors installed by Overhead Door. Told them my intentions, they hung the doors. Flush insulated panels.
Used urethane adhesive troweled on with a notched trowel to adhere the face pieces, they were 1/4"-3/4" thick give or take depending on shadow lines.
Where the panels broke, I beveled the top edge of the top board on the lower panel and the bottom edge of the bottom board on the upper panel. The bevels prevented any gaps at the horizontal breaks, and prevented driven rain from getting into what would otherwise be a horizontal gap.
They came back later and adjusted the system for the additional weight.
hmm... thats a cool idea .
equal door out of canada, check them out
equaldoor.com