good looking roll up doors?

[SeanP]

Has anybody found any good looking roll up doors? I am planning my shop which will face the street next to my house and I would love a roll up door in order to retain some space inside my shop. Everything I see is for storage units, and that wouldn't look so great in my neighborhood.

ideas?

thanks!

 

[Charles (in GA)]

Nature of the beast. Given that the doors have to roll up, its readily apparent that they either have to be flexible or a series of rigid pieces connected together that will roll up tightly. For strength, flexible doors are corrugated. Slat doors, such as Overhead Doors makes, look a little better since the outer side of the slats are flat, making for a relatively flat, nondescript door. Slat doors are made of heavier metal and generally stronger, but are noisy when they rattle in the wind, and also look crappy after a while as each joint tend to ooze brown rust stains where the pieces rub together. Slat doors tend to be pricey also.

Charles

 

[Art From De Leon]

I have two 12' X 12' Overhead brand doors on my Morton building that are 6 years old, and do not rattle in the wind, and have no issue with rust staining, they look as nice now as the day they were installed.

 

[SeanP]

thanks for the replies. I am struggling with having an ugly door and more overhead space in my 10' garage or an attractive door and losing the space. I would go higher ceiling, but I am doing a second floor and have to stay within height requirments.

SeanP

 

[slip knot]

I have the corrugated roll up doors. They look Ok but I have a metal bldg anyway. One thing I learned is that the doors are the weak link in any building. My building has a wind rating of 120mph but the standard door they spec'd were only 90mph doors. Had to cough up another $250 for wind load doors.