Carriage style doors

[dandan111]

Getting ready to have a our old two car garage cleaned up.
Do you guys know of a affordable carriage style swing out door?
I'm thinking about changing from two 8ft singles to one 10 ft door.

Any ideas?
Can always go to a standard door but if affordable I'd like to spruce
it up.
Thanks

 

[Toolfool]

No. Have never found an "affordable" set of decent looking carriage doors. We built some at times, but they ended being pretty expensive when done.

 

[Samh]

Are you open to building them yourself, or do you need to buy them? I built my own, and it was cheaper than buying regular garage doors.

 

[kaymccampbell]

Clopay makes nice looking carriage style overhead doors.

 

[geotek]

Struggled with the same thing. In the end I ended up having to put expedience ahead of asthetics and put up a couple of shhets of OSB to get through the winter. In the spring I'm going to rebuild them using ply with some 1by to make it look nice from the street and look like the others in the neighborhood. Following to see how yours ends up.

 

[MushCreek]

I'm following this with interest. I need to replace our garage door, and have considered carriage doors, or an overhead door that looks like them. When I built our place, I bought a used cheap metal overhead door. My wife tried to open it with the back of her car one day, so it's a little banged up now.

 

[jollygreengiant]

If you do a google search there's a few companies that make custom carriage doors. Be prepared for sticker shock though as I'm sure they aren't cheap especially if your looking for a 5' swing out door, they will need to have a beefy frame. I ended up building mine and the materials cost about 1/3 of the quotes we were getting for insulated overhead doors.

ETA: if you search Garage Journal there are a few other threads about building your own carriage doors and I remember seeing one or two about buying pre-built doors. Here's a good one: https://www.garagejournal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=416446

 

[twistedstang]

I priced carriage doors for my new carriage house style garage at around $5000 a piece. I ended up going with overhead doors that looked like carriage doors at $1600 a piece.

 

[MushCreek]

I've seen some pretty convincing overhead doors that really look like carriage doors. One idea I saw was to put a 45 degree angle on the pieces, so the gap is nearly non-existent, and the overlapping angles keep driven rain out. Somewhere on this forum somebody had pictures of doors they made like that, and they were gorgeous.

I like the idea of carriage doors, but there are two issues- one is snow or wind. Snow isn't an issue in some areas, but strong winds can happen anywhere. The other main issue is rigging up a door opener. I've seen it done, though.

 

[rebelranger]

I wish someone made a very light weight carriage door to put in front of overhead doors for maximum air seal and increased insulation. Maybe I'll try

 

[mikegt4]

I made some carriage doors for the back of my garage which is more of a "railroad" style where the doors are on the ends and I can "drive through". The outside pad is about 1-1/2" below the level of the garage floor resulting in a good seal across the bottom. I made up some latches similar to the doors on a semi trailer, they can only be opened from the inside. The top of the door is at ceiling height, the main reason that I made these doors and it allows me to get my "tall on the trailer" boat inside which I can't do now with the garage being full of other things. Being on the gable end of the building there is no load requiring a header so the building dept. OK'd a double roof truss with plywood in between across the door opening. Your structure may be different.

Things to consider about carriage doors:
Snow piled against the door precludes opening them.
Moderate wind can pull the door from you hands, high wind will drag you with the door, either of which will bend the hinges and/or damage the door. Don't ask me how I know this.