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My wife pushed the close button aggressively and it folded up three of the four panels on our double garage door. That's not entirely true but the result is.
This summer, a 2x4 was leaning in the corner next to the door and at some point it slid over next to the garage door track. The next time it was opened it fell under the track and upon attempting to close it propped the door up. The opener took it as a personal affront and went full send which caused it to fold the top panel and pop the opener bracket off of the strut it was mounted to. I pushed/pulled and reattached and went on with life. Looked a little bit crinkled from the outside but worked... for a few months. The plan was to eventually make a more permanent repair but it's one of those things that I basically didn't think of again since it was working properly.
The other day my wife (she's hard on garage doors) attempted to close the door only to have it fold the top panel again, the next two and then rip the opener bracket out again. Top three panels were folded enough to rip holes so they're done. Sounds like our 13 year old panels may be difficult to replace so an entire door (16x7) is probably the solution and we may even need to replace the single door next to it (8x8) to get everything to match again. We currently have the cheapest of cheap long panels and while I'd like to go something insulated I'm not sure it's in the budget.
I don't mind doing the work myself but it's difficult to find a good price on just the panels & hardware these days. I have good wheels and decent hardware that I can reuse I just need a new top strut (unless I go insulation that has better construction) and the panels. Between Mr Google and YouTube I can figure the rest out on my own.
Does anyone have the hookups on garage door panels, hardware and possibly installation?
I replaced mine myself several years ago. I want to say the new door with all of the hardware, tracks, etc. was about $350 from Home Depot. Decided to install a new screw drive opener while I was at it. Total investment right around $500.
If you decide to go this route you'll need a trailer to get the new door home and I'd highly recommend a second set of hands for the installation. I did mine all by myself but having someone to help with the panels would have been nice.
Hmm. Either I got mine on sale or prices have gone up. Mine is a standard, 16x7 two car door and it's insulated. Looks like the smaller, single doors that are not insulated are closer to what I paid.
Fentonite
12-12-2018, 10:53
Remember 303ARms? (Once a member here). Andy Reinhardt. He does garage doors. I had him work on mine a couple years ago. Fast, quality workmanship, good price, and a gun guy. It was 2016 when I hired him, but I would guess he’s still in the business.
Andy@303ARms.com
I’ll PM you his phone number.
gnihcraes
12-12-2018, 10:58
Overhead door has done 3 for me recently. 2 doors and openers for i think 1500 installed.
New opener on older door for 576 i think.
Called them and they had a tech with opener there in 4 hours. Non emergency need too. Was great.
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BPTactical
12-12-2018, 12:50
Remember 303ARms? (Once a member here). Andy Reinhardt. He does garage doors. I had him work on mine a couple years ago. Fast, quality workmanship, good price, and a gun guy. It was 2016 when I hired him, but I would guess he’s still in the business.
Andy@303ARms.com
I’ll PM you his phone number.
+1
Andy is great peeps
Remember 303ARms? (Once a member here). Andy Reinhardt. He does garage doors. I had him work on mine a couple years ago. Fast, quality workmanship, good price, and a gun guy. It was 2016 when I hired him, but I would guess he’s still in the business.
Andy@303ARms.com
I’ll PM you his phone number.
Yep, he did some repairs on ours as well. Great job, great guy.
Overhead door has done 3 for me recently. 2 doors and openers for i think 1500 installed.
New opener on older door for 576 i think.
Called them and they had a tech with opener there in 4 hours. Non emergency need too. Was great.
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For a 2 stall insulated door? That would be a great deal.
HD Clopay R18 door with glass is ~$2K. https://www.homedepot.com/p/Clopay-Classic-Collection-16-ft-x-7-ft-18-4-R-Value-Intellicore-Insulated-White-Garage-Door-with-Plain-Windows-HDP20-SW-Plain/204598322
I put one in myself years ago, it was probably around $1300 as I recall.
Lowes has Pella doors cheaper, and offers a 10% mil/vet discount if applicable, but they're only R6.
We had to get a double and single door replaced this year and got 4 quotes. All were substantially higher than what I'm seeing here. We love the new doors and they've been awesome but nowhere near where I thought they'd be.
gnihcraes
12-12-2018, 14:31
For a 2 stall insulated door? That would be a great deal.
HD Clopay R18 door with glass is ~$2K. https://www.homedepot.com/p/Clopay-Classic-Collection-16-ft-x-7-ft-18-4-R-Value-Intellicore-Insulated-White-Garage-Door-with-Plain-Windows-HDP20-SW-Plain/204598322
I put one in myself years ago, it was probably around $1300 as I recall.
Lowes has Pella doors cheaper, and offers a 10% mil/vet discount if applicable, but they're only R6.Just looked, yep im off. Was $2500, 9x7, 10x8 and two openers installed. Still could t find a better price.
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Andy just did two new doors for me in the fall. Great dude, great work.
SideShow Bob
12-12-2018, 16:11
Notice how Jer blames his wife for the damage because she pushed the operate button too hard ? Not the fact that he procrastinated on repairing previous damage.
Jer, you ought to be ashamed of yourself, Santa should fill your stocking full of coal while you are still wearing them.
68Charger
12-12-2018, 17:16
Back in Colorado, >somebody> backed into ours with a suburban when it was almost open enough to fit...
Similar damage to what you're describing
I didn't want to buy a new insulated door after pricing one, so i took the panels down one by one, put them on sawhorses and basically did bodywork to hammer the dents out. One place it was still weak (where the strut for the opener attached) I bought some aluminized steel sheet metal to reinforce it. Cut to fit, and used bigger screws... could hardly tell and the house sold that way. I would have welded, but with foam insulation inside I thought that may not end well.
It is good for a "get out of doghouse free" card if you do it right [Beer]
Back in Colorado, >somebody> backed into ours with a suburban when it was almost open enough to fit...
Similar damage to what you're describing
Her name wasn?t Noel, was it?
I knew a girl named Noel that did something similar two or three times to the same garage door in about a three month period.
I've replaced the driver mirror on my wife car twice and the mirror on the now is broken.
68Charger
12-12-2018, 18:27
I've replaced the driver mirror on my wife car twice and the mirror on the now is broken.
This looks like you put it thru Google translate... twice
I'm not going to give my phone the satisfaction of fixing that sentence. Predictive text used to be cool. Now it sucks.
It?s okay, Irving. It?s still more coherent than just about anything from anyone on Craigslist or Armslist.
This looks like you put it thru Google translate... twice
I LOL'd there.
I've replaced the driver mirror on my wife car twice and the mirror on the now is broken.
Your post is like my wife's FB post.
Bunny/pancake.
ChickNorris
12-12-2018, 19:02
This looks like you put it thru Google translate... twice
Giggle snort
[ROFL1][ROFL2] I needed a laugh!
BPTactical
12-12-2018, 20:12
ITT we discover why my garage is my workshop and not a garage......
68Charger
12-12-2018, 21:00
I don't have a garage here in TX... maybe I just found the silver lining.
I was being scarcastic when I blamed it on my wife. I thought that was pretty obvious. For those who thought I was being serious, how does one "push a button aggressively" anyway? Is that a lot like slamming a tent door when you have an argument whilst camping?
Back to the garage door topic.... Yeah it does seem as though maybe prices have gone up because I seemed to recall these panels weren't that expensive back when I did flips but I can't seem to find bargain prices deals anymore. Salvaging any of these panels by doing body work isn't an option due to actual tears where the creases are. It's not as simple as hammering out a couple of dents because the steel actually "tore" where the creases are.
I did manage to find one deal that was a 16x7 door installed for $499 with tear down and haul away of the old door. It required me completing a form with measurements and details but even with limited footwork (that I'd likely have to do if I did the work myself anyway) that's a smokin' deal from what I've seen. The only problem with this is that it is ONLY for their short panel door and not the long panel. For those that don't know the lingo this only means four squares per panel or two rectangles (double for double wide door) but they're the same otherwise. It's purely aesthetics as the doors are nearly identical in form and function otherwise. The bummer is that we have two garage doors and the single wide (actually taller though) garage door is fine but they wouldn't match. On top of that we were told that manufacturers change their process every 8-10 years so it they likely wouldn't match even if we paid extra for long panels since we built his house about 13 years ago. They are both of cheap builder's grade panels too so I don't know if I want to match the one that's still standing only to have it fail eventually too. I could say screw it and throw and short panel door in the double side even though it doesn't match the one next to it for $500 and call it a day. They're different shapes so maybe it wouldn't be as noticeable? It's something that would probably drive me nuts though.
I think it's I should use this as an opportunity to do what I really want to do and that's install two 3-layer insulated garage doors. I have a large garage and I do spend time in it in the winter so it would probably be something we would recoup a couple of bucks per month back in heating/cooling costs overall which isn't much but it's something. They would work better, look better, operate quieter and last longer overall so this is where the real investment would pay off. I won't have to worry about replacing them every decade or so if we're even here that long. The problem is I hate spending money so I'm having a hard time justifying spending a couple of grand on both doors when I have an option available to put us back to 99% of where we were (that 1% is just the difference in looks) for $500.
In an perfect world I think I'd find a really good deal on decent but not amazing insulated (R10+) doors w/o any fancy windows or details that I could just install myself. I stopped at Lowe's and the guy told me it would take about 35 days to get doors made. No thanks.
Just bumping this thread up to say that, in response to the title of the thread, I now known someone in the garage door game. lol
I found a local guy who ended up not only being the cheapest by a long ways but could do the work in less than a week when the other local shops I got quotes from had me installing in February sometime. He was able to get the 8x8 door the next day and the supply shop he used could get him the 16x7 at the start of the following week. This was Christmas week mind you and I had both done and installed the day after Christmas which was about a week from my first contact with him. He installed some super nice 3-layer steel-backed R10+ doors for cheap.
These things are amazing and I only wish I had done this a lot sooner or even selected these doors when we first built the place. There's no doubt in my mind that we wouldn't have had to replace them if we started out with something this nice. They are super quiet and rock solid. Now I just need a warm spring day so I can get them painted up to match the house.
He installed the 16x7 for $950 when the best quotes I got was $1,285 plus tax installed for similar doors and he installed the 8x8 for $500 which was about half of the other quotes I was getting which was $985 plus tax. His prices were out the door and he was able to install within a week whereas the other quotes I got were needing over a month to get the doors in.
If anyone in the Northern Colorado area needs some garage door work I'd give Jarrod a call at (970) 420-9987 and tell him Jeremy sent ya and he'll take care of you. Good dude that was super nice and very professional. His work is top notch and was the cheapest I could find by a fair bit too.
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