Your Garage Door does much more than simply move up and down, up and down. Is your garage heated? Is your current garage door insulated? Homeowners waste thousands of dollars each year by constantly heating their garage, only to have the heat escape through an non-insulated or drafty garage door. Window World Garage Doors provide you with countless styles and options, including insulated and non-insulated versions. Non-insulated garage doors are fine if your garage is stand-alone, or not heated and cooled with your home. In order to match any home’s specific design, look, and feel, Window World replacement Garage Doors come in a variety of options, including: Regardless of your home, Replacement Garage Doors make an excellent addition to your house. And as expected of any Window World product, our Garage Door Systems are backed by our unsurpassed warranty. Looks can be deceiving. From a distance, you see wood. Up close, it’s sturdy, durable, low-maintenance steel. The Classica Collection of Carriage House Doors.
Precision-shaped doors in fresh, clean, classic carriage house styles that go up and down like traditional garage doors. Three-section tall designs, instead of four, help deliver a more authentic carriage house look. Deception never looked so good. Optional decorative hardware, reminiscent of authentic hardware found on original carriage houses, adds character to your door. Seven unique three-section stamped-steel designs. Actual paint colors may vary from samples shown. Amarr steel doors are pre-painted; for custom colors exterior latex paint must be used. Self-Expression shouldn’t cost a fortune. With Amarr’s Oak Summit Collection it won’t. These durable steel doors offer an attractive carriage house look. Choose from a variety of door colors, decorative hardware, and window accents. Customize your home with Amarr’s most affordable carriage house door. Give your door a unique carriage house look with a variety of decorative hardware options. The Oak Summit Collection is available in four designs with your choice of ten colors and 25 windows.
*Available on Oak Summit 1000/2000 only.Oak Summit 1000/2000: True White, Almond, Sandtone, Terratone, and Dark Brown. Oak Summit 3000: True White, Almond, Sandtone, Brown, Terratone, Hunter Green, Gray, and Dark or Medium Woodgrain. Tradition never goes out of style. Choose from four different panel designs to create the steel garage door you always wanted. The Heritage Collection provides a heavier gauge steel, and both collections feature durable low-maintenance doors in your choice of traditional styles. The Heritage & Stratford Collections. Great looks for years to come. Choose from contemporary or craftsmen DecraGlass windows or DecraTrim window inserts to coordinate with your home. *Heritage Flush Panel has no shadow lines. The Heritage & Stratford Collections are available in a variety of panel designs and colors.Heritage: True White, Almond, Sandtone, and Brown. Stratford 1000/2000: True White, Almond, Sandtone, Terratone, and Dark Brown. Stratford 3000: True White, Almond, Sandtone, Brown, Terratone, Hunter Green, Gray, and Dark or Medium Woodgrain.
Design and energy efficiency make Designer’s Choice and Olympus doors popular models. With triple-layer construction, a thermal seal, and superior insulation with an R-value of 19.40 or 14.46, these durable, low-maintenance doors give you the ultimate in quiet operation and energy efficiency. Choose window inserts or DecraGlass windows to coordinate with your home’s design along with decorative hardware. Designer’s Choice is a bead board carriage house design while the Olympus door is a traditional short panel design. Four colors are available on select models and widths.Fimbel Designer’s Choice 400: True White. Fimbel Designer’s Choice 500: True White, Almond, Sandtone, and Brown. Fimbel Olympus 400/500: True White, Almond, Sandtone, and Brown. *Available only in 8’, 9’, 10’, 16’, or 18’ widths. View More Door Products » Schedule Your Free In-Home Estimate »First impressions, curb appeal, best foot forward: Your garage door does it all when it comes to the appearance of your home.
That's especially true of suburban homes built in the last several decades. Designed for drive-right-in accessibility, many have in-your-face garages that occupy up to 30 percent of the front facade. Small wonder that upgrading a garage door is a popular home improvement project. According to the 2010 Cost vs. Value Report from Remodeling magazine, a garage door replacement is the only project in the survey that recorded an uptick in value compared to the previous year. Dazed and amused If you're ready to scout out styles and options for your new garage door, take a deep breath: There are so many choices you'll be seeing garage doors in your dreams for weeks. Wayne-Dalton, for example, boasts 12 design options, 10 window patterns, and 15 colors for its Model 9700 door alone. Let's do the math: That's a possible 1,800 combinations! Image courtesty of Clopay. Technical rescue Thankfully, many manufacturers are aware of option overload, and their websites are equipped with digital visualization tools that help you sort through possibilities with a click of the mouse.
Wayne-Dalton's slick Garage Door Design Center lets you upload a photo of your own house, then overlay hundreds of styles, window shapes and colors. Choose from stock images to approximate your home. DoorView from Overhead Door Corp. lets you choose a house style to play with as you decide garage styles and colors. For a more personal touch, you can upload a shot of your house and receive a phone consultation. The Door Designer from Amarr Door is a simple program that uploads architectural renderings onto stock house designs. When you're done, e-mail the finished design to Amarr for a price quote tailored to your area. Back to the basics Manufacturers have their proprietary techniques and methods for putting together garage doors, but the basics are these: • Single-layer construction features a simple outer layer of steel, fiberglass, or engineered wood. The basic doors are lightweight, which is easy on springs, and low cost. Their insulating value is negligible.
• Double-layer construction has an inner and outer skin sandwiched around a layer of polystyrene board for rigidity, and an insulating value between R-4 and R-7. • Premium construction has inner and outer layers of high-quality steel, wood or fiberglass sandwiched around a thick layer of polystyrene or polyurethane insulation for maximum stiffness and insulating values that exceed R-15. Aluminum and glass An escapee from the world of car washes, this modernist construction is essentially tempered, all-glass or acrylic panels set in anodized aluminum frames. Choices of frame finishes and glass types make for contemporary cool. Heads up: Glass is fragile. Cost for a 16-by-7-foot double door: $1,500-$2,000. Steel Premium-quality steel doors feature outer layers of heavy-gauge steel that's embossed to mimic wood grain or stucco. Overlays, such as moldings and cross-buck designs, give the look of carriage doors. Foam cores add strength and insulating values.
Most steel doors can be purchased with factory-applied finishes. Although color choices are somewhat limited, these doors are virtually maintenance-free. Also, steel can be ordered primed, or painted to match house colors. Heads up: Steel can dent. Insulating value: R-6 to R-17 Cost for a 16-by-7-foot double door: $750-$3,500. All wood Architectural purists, rejoice. All-wood garage doors made from moisture-resistant cedar, redwood and cypress give you bragging rights for the best-looking garage in the neighborhood. Not as strong as steel nor as tough as fiberglass, wood still provides je ne sais quoi curb appeal like nothing else. Note, however, that even wood comes in various prices — and levels of quality. The best doors feature all-wood frames and panels. Opt for polystyrene backing to add insulating value. The prefinished stain options are beautiful. Heads up: Needs periodic refinishing. Insulating value: R-3 to R-6. Cost for a 16-by-7-foot double door, low quality: $400-$700;
superior quality: $1,200-$4,000 and up. Fiberglass Rapidly gaining market share, fiberglass doors are known for their resistance to moisture, insects, warping and changes in humidity. Thick outer skins of fiberglass surround an inner foam core and a steel framework that provides strength and stability. Fiberglass excels at mimicking the colors and grain patterns of real woods such as cherry, oak and mahogany. Heads up: Single-layer versions can be brittle. Insulating value: R-4 to R-12 Cost for a 16-by-7-foot double door: $1,100-$1,800. Composite wood This sandwich-type construction features a strong, insulating core of polystyrene wrapped in composite wood: panels made from wood fibers and weatherproof resins. Many manufacturers use recycled wood fibers for the panels, providing a bit of green factor. Molded with grain patterns, composite wood can be difficult to distinguish from the real thing. Unlike wood, however, composite doors won't split, crack or rot.
Composite doors come factory finished, or can be custom stained or painted. Heads up: Nearly as costly as real wood. Insulating value: R-5 to R-8. Cost for a 16-by-7-foot double door: $1,200-$2,200. DIY composite Turn your old door into a carriage door look-alike with glue-on urethane and resin plank kits from companies such as Garage Door Refacing and GarageReface. These smaller companies may be localized, so check your Yellow Pages. Cost for a 16-by-7-foot door: $1,200-$1,400. Vinyl Standard construction sees layers of durable, weatherproof vinyl surrounding an inner core of foam insulation, although the cheapest models lack the foam core. Lightweight and impervious to insects and rot, vinyl doors are durable players. Colors extend throughout the vinyl layers, so scratches don't show. Unlike steel, vinyl is resistant to dings and errant baseballs; many types come with lifetime warranties. Despite their higher price, over the long run vinyl doors may be a more cost-effective option than steel.