Brick ranch, Sycamore Drive ·
An insulated two-car door on a brick ranch
A 1960s ranch with a dented, rattling door on old extension springs and a bedroom over one end of the garage. Now the door is insulated, quiet, and has a row of windows that lights the garage.
- What we did
- A dented 1980s uninsulated door and its extension springs off, a 16 × 7 ft insulated steel door with a row of windows, torsion springs, new tracks and a belt-drive opener
- Door
- 16 × 7 ft
- Time
- 6 hours
- Cost
- $3,450 all in
The door on this ranch was the original from the 1980s: uninsulated steel, dented at the foot, on a pair of extension springs that stretched along the tracks and twanged every time it moved. The bedroom over the end of the garage heard every bit of it.
We took the old door and its springs down in the morning and fitted a 16 × 7 ft insulated steel door with a row of windows across the top section, on new tracks with a pair of torsion springs over the header, and a belt-drive opener on the ceiling. By mid-afternoon it was balanced, safety-tested and quiet enough that the owners asked twice whether it was running.
Door sheetJob 260814
- Size
- 16 × 7 ft, two-car
- Sections
- 4, steel, raised panel
- Material
- 25-gauge steel, white
- Insulation
- R-16 polyurethane
- Springs
- Torsion, 2 on the shaft
- Cycles
- 20,000
- Opener
- Belt drive, battery backup
- Windows
- 8 lites across the top
- Seal
- Vinyl bottom seal and stop