1920s brick barn garage, Linden Hollow Road ·
Carriage-house doors for a brick barn
A 1920s brick barn with two arched openings and swing doors that had rotted at the foot. Now it has a pair of deep-green carriage-house doors that look like the originals and open overhead at the press of a button.
- What we did
- Two rotted swing doors off, the arched openings repaired, two arched-top wood carriage-house doors in deep green with strap hinges, new springs and two wall-mount openers
- Door
- 2 × 9 × 8 ft
- Time
- 2 days
- Cost
- $11,400 all in
The owners use the old barn as a garage and a workshop, and the original swing doors had rotted where they met the brick drive. They wanted doors that looked right on the building but didn’t need to be dragged open through the leaves every morning.
We spent the first day taking the old doors down and repairing the brick and the wood frames of the arches, and the second fitting a pair of arched-top carriage-house doors in cedar, painted the deep green of the barn’s old trim, with black strap hinges. They open overhead on torsion springs, with wall-mount openers on the end of each shaft so the old timber ceiling stays clear.
Door sheetJob 261002
- Size
- 9 × 8 ft, arched top, ×2
- Sections
- 4, wood on a steel frame
- Material
- Cedar, painted deep green
- Insulation
- R-9 foam core
- Springs
- Torsion, 2 per door
- Cycles
- 25,000
- Opener
- Wall-mount, battery backup
- Windows
- 4 arched lites, clear
- Hardware
- Black iron strap hinges