Home Renovation Project: New Garage Doors: Hardware Installed
The final touch on the garage doors - the door latches and clavos -
were installed. A full view of the hardware on the smaller garage
door can be reviewed
here.
I have also snapped a close-up shot of the hardware on the larger
garage door. See bleow (click to enlarge):
Home Renovation Project: New Garage Doors: Installation
Our new garage doors were installed yesterday and today. Included with
the installation: new openers, new tracks, new everything. Here are a
couple of pictures:
All that is lacking now is a final coat of varnish and the garage door
hardware (which includes decorative iron latches and ornamental clavos).
Home Renovation Project: New Garage Doors: Paint/Varnish
The garage doors have been stained and varnished.
The front side has two coats of stain and the back side just one coat.
See pictures below.
Installation is scheduled for next week.
Home Renovation Project: New Garage Doors: Delivery
We are replacing our garage doors. The current doors are in perfect
working order. We are swapping them out for aesthetic reasons only.
The new doors are stain-grade carriage-style doors
(see sketches of
single
garage door and
double
garage door). We saw them at Costco "on sale", grabbed the brochure,
and called the number for a quote. A rep from
Amaar
came out to give us a quote. To our dismay, the garage doors shown in
the pictures at the Costco booth (the carriage-style we
were interested) weren't "on sale", instead some flimsy metal foam-core
garage doors (that were of lower quality than what we now have) were the
ones that were "on sale". Aargh... the classic bait-and-switch. The
doors we actually wanted (the ones pictures in the booth at Costco) were
quoted at just over $20 grand. Uh, no thanks.
So I made a few phone calls and found a local company,
National Door that quoted us
the same style doors (with what appears to be identical build quality)
for a third the price of Amaar. The doors were delivered today:
The doors will be stained/finished next week and installed the week
after that.
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