Modern house, Ridgecrest Lane ·
A full-view glass door for a modern house
A new flat-roofed house that wanted its garage door to be part of the front. Now an 18-foot door of black frames and frosted glass glows warm when the garage light is on.
- What we did
- A full-view door of black aluminium frames and frosted tempered glass, heavier torsion springs to suit, a wall-mount opener and a new concrete threshold seal
- Door
- 18 × 8 ft
- Time
- 1 day
- Cost
- $8,950 all in
The architect drew the garage door as part of the front of the house: a wide field of frosted glass in a black grid, lit from inside at night. It had to look light and still be a door that goes up and down every day for twenty years.
Glass doors are heavy, so the springs were sized to the finished door on a scale, not from the catalogue, and we fitted a wall-mount opener so nothing hangs in the middle of the garage ceiling to be seen through the glass. A threshold seal on the new concrete keeps the driving rain out at the foot.
Door sheetJob 260619
- Size
- 18 × 8 ft
- Sections
- 4, aluminium full-view
- Material
- Black anodised aluminium
- Insulation
- Insulated tempered glass
- Springs
- Torsion, 2 heavy-duty
- Cycles
- 25,000
- Opener
- Wall-mount, app control
- Windows
- Frosted, 24 panes
- Seal
- Threshold seal, side and top stops