Carriage Style Overhead Doors

[duwem]

I'm going to have two 12' wide by 10' tall or 12' wide by 12' high overhead doors on the front of my shop.



I would like to see examples of larger carriage doors. All the images online are house garage sized.

This is the style I'm thinking of.

 

[duwem]

The one door supplier I'm talking with said for a 12' wide door, you get 3 x's and 3 windows, kind of messes up the look then...particularly if a guy were to put hinges and handles on it.

 

[readhead]

Find a custom shop. They will make anything you want.

 

[JC23]

Or, if you are handy, do like we did on my garage.

We found a dealer who would sell us the right springs and all the heavy duty hardware and he told me what size to make the door panels. All he needed was the weight of the doors minus paint to match the springs.

We used 2X4 lumber for framing the panels and insulated them. Both the inside and out got MDF screwed to the frames. MDF loves paint so we used a good primer/sealer. On the outside, I used cedar to make the door shapes, then added metal hardware in hinges and door handles.

If I had bought the doors (2), it would have cost me over $8K. I think I spent less than $1K so I had money left for other fun stuff in the garage.

 

[vette66bob]

Post some pictures, sounds interesting

 

[duwem]

2 of the 4 I am talking to says to do a 12' wide door its 3 x's and 3 windows. Should still look cool, but wouldn't put the hinges and handles on at that point.