Anyone Here in or Know Someone in the Garage Door Game?

[brutal]

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]

This looks like you put it thru Google translate... twice

Giggle snort

[MarkCO]

I needed a laugh!

[BPTactical]

ITT we discover why my garage is my workshop and not a garage......

[68Charger]

I don't have a garage here in TX... maybe I just found the silver lining.

[Jer]

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.

[Jer]

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.