Buying garage door & opener

[simpsongal]

Another sexy house purchase.

We're buying a new garage door w/opener, keypad, etc.  I guess it will be nice to have an opener that works all the time and an insulated door w/o broken windows and wind whipping underneath (our current double door is over 40 years old).  But otherwise, it's $1700 I would have rather spent on something fun/pretty/inside-the-house/etc.

I spent a good amount of time sealing the lead paint on the current door and patching/painting the cracks and whatnot last spring.  I feel like that was time wasted now

One of our big projects this year is to work on organizing, cleaning, and painting the garage (floor & walls).  Hopefully, this will get us rolling.

The guy said there's a double and triple insulated option. I'm thinking double is fine.  Anyone have any advice on garage door buying? (we don't have an HOA - so no problems w/type/color/etc, - sorry to the poster who had that issue )

[susieq]

Is it possible to just replace the broken glass and the seal that goes under the door without having to replace the entire door. You can also buy new lift systems or just the opener depending on what part of it does not work.

We just resealed our garage doors. The seals are $20ish at Lowes and took about 30 minutes per door.

[simpsongal]

I don't think sealer at the bottom will do it - it's like 3" off the bottom on one side. The door has zero insulation now and it's warping in a lot of places. But I'll definitely ask the guy about cheaper options when he comes for an estimate.

[FoxInFiji]

We really like our new Clopay garage doors and Champion door opener. We got the highest R-value door we could find (R-17) with double pane glass (don't do triple that's more a marketing poly than actually being better). We were going to DIY install it like we do everything but we found hiring it out was almost exactly the same price because they get such deals on the doors. It was only $100 more per door and was done in a day. We upgraded to belt openers so it's a lot quieter as well.

The new doors are so much nicer than our rotting old one. I would replace them if I were you. Here's some more info on ours back from when I was still blogging:
threeacres.wordpress.com/2009/08/06/we-finally-found-our-garage-doors/
threeacres.wordpress.com/2009/08/14/the-garage-doors-are-in/

The nice new garage doors inspired us to redo our entire garage as well. We converted it back to a two car garage, ground down the uneven cement floor, and put epoxy on the floor. We also added a bunch of shelving and organized the crap out of the space but it has since been destroyed as the garage became our storage space for this remodel.
threeacres.wordpress.com/2010/12/01/converting-our-one-car-garage-back-into-a-two-car-garage/
threeacres.wordpress.com/2010/12/07/fixing-our-uneven-garage-floor/
threeacres.wordpress.com/2010/12/11/applying-garage-floor-epoxy/

I hope that inspires you.

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LOL. Good to hear you don't have an HOA. Not sure if you saw my update on MM, but it seems it was not their style and was only recommending to tone down the contrast. I posted the exact email wording. It wasn't worded as a recommendation at all.   HOA member probably realized before our face-to-face meeting that he couldn't really make me change anything.  Ha!

I don't know much about garage doors though.  I chose purely on the looks.  lol.  The doors has insulation or R value of 12.76 (we live in the south with mild winter).  I assume that's good.

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Mar 8, 2013 16:19:09 GMT -5 FoxInFiji said:

We really like our new Clopay garage doors and Champion door opener. We got the highest R-value door we could find (R-17) with double pane glass (don't do triple that's more a marketing poly than actually being better). We were going to DIY install it like we do everything but we found hiring it out was almost exactly the same price because they get such deals on the doors. It was only $100 more per door and was done in a day. We upgraded to belt openers so it's a lot quieter as well.

The new doors are so much nicer than our rotting old one. I would replace them if I were you. Here's some more info on ours back from when I was still blogging:
threeacres.wordpress.com/2009/08/06/we-finally-found-our-garage-doors/
threeacres.wordpress.com/2009/08/14/the-garage-doors-are-in/

The nice new garage doors inspired us to redo our entire garage as well. We converted it back to a two car garage, ground down the uneven cement floor, and put epoxy on the floor. We also added a bunch of shelving and organized the crap out of the space but it has since been destroyed as the garage became our storage space for this remodel.
threeacres.wordpress.com/2010/12/01/converting-our-one-car-garage-back-into-a-two-car-garage/
threeacres.wordpress.com/2010/12/07/fixing-our-uneven-garage-floor/
threeacres.wordpress.com/2010/12/11/applying-garage-floor-epoxy/

I hope that inspires you.

May I ask how much you paid for your doors?  They look nice! 

[house]

FoxInFiji Idk how I missed your garage doors before but I looooove them! We need a new garage door too so I will have to show my DH yours and see how he likes them. Ours is a two car garage but has one big door. Now I am thinking we need two doors I stead one. Lol!

[FoxInFiji]

Mar 8, 2013 16:31:01 GMT -5 d0ri said:

May I ask how much you paid for your doors?  They look nice! 

Hold on let me look in spreadsheet...  They were $1,400 a door.  So not much more than a standard looking door but not as fancy as your doors with the contrasting pieces. 

Eventually we plan to have tan stone one the bottom half of the house (the top floor is offset to put brick on the bottom but they never installed it) and light olive green siding on the top half of the house.  The dark wood grain garage doors will look a lot better with that future color scheme than it does with what we have now. 

[FoxInFiji]

Mar 8, 2013 16:38:37 GMT -5 house said:

FoxInFiji Idk how I missed your garage doors before but I looooove them! We need a new garage door too so I will have to show my DH yours and see how he likes them. Ours is a two car garage but has one big door. Now I am thinking we need two doors I stead one. Lol!

So ours were the Gallery collection.  At the time they only carried the dark painted wood grain in a few collections but they've expanded it since because it was so popular.  I've even seen their lower Menard's line (Ideal I think) now carries that color.  It was a new thing when we got it so we were delayed from getting it because their production line wasn't ready yet. 

They have a couple nicer lines but at the time the costs were a lot more for those lines.  I decided that the dark wood grain color and the insulated windows were my top two requirements so we went with the middle collection that carried those. 

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FoxInFiji --- Thanks for sharing the cost. So regular doors in your area is around that much? Here, it's more in the low $1k. But maybe it's higher there because you need a higher R-value. The price still doesn't sound bad though. And your future plan sounds great!