If you’re considering a replacement garage door for your home and you’re trying to decide whether or not to install a carriage style garage door here’s some useful information to help you make an educated decision.
First and this is a big decision, you’ll need to decide some kind of budget, the more elaborate the garage door the more expensive it’s going to be. Stamped steel carriage doors are going to be by far more reasonable than custom made steel carriage doors or custom wood carriage doors. We’ll talk more about this in a moment.
Next you’ll need to decide if your new garage door is going to be insulated or non-insulated, solid without windows or have some kind of decorative windows. Insulated carriage doors are offered in different overall thickness, R value and open back garage doors or finished sandwich style doors.
Sandwich style steel carriage doors are going to overall be the most durable and the strongest of the steel carriage doors, however your choice of designs will be more limited. Sandwich style carriage doors will also provide the best insulating qualities.
Stamped steel carriage doors will be the most reasonable and the most durable. Custom steel carriage doors are next in line, these doors usually start with a flush steel garage door, (insulated or non-insulated) and then have some type of composite overlay attached to achieve the carriage door look.
Steel carriage doors with an overlay will give you endless design possibilities; however there can be major drawbacks to this type of carriage door and the most important information you’ll need to know is whether the door is being built by a name brand overhead garage door company or is manufactured locally by your garage door installation company.
I’ll talk more about this in our next segment; remember doing your homework now will save you time, money and potential grief later.
