Garage door framing
Written by julio on September 22nd, 2010We have been looking at our rotten garage doors since we bought the house in 2004. Rather than put any money or effort into their repair, we decided to hold off until the stars lined up for their replacement. We are going to get doors much more suitable to our house style (fake carriage house doors), but first I had to remove all of the rotten framing and trim and reframe the openings in advance of the door installers.
As we’ve come to expect from our previous owner, most of the wood used was untreated and therefore inappropriate for a location with high weather exposure. You can see how well (or not) it all held up in the pictures below. I replaced the framing with pressure-treated wood and will be using painted cedar for the trim. Additionally, since the openings are not equal width, we are offsetting the new framing to move the right door further to the right. The gap in the middle will grow larger, but it will be covered with plywood and painted garage color in order to make it all look much more symmetrical.
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- Circa 2004
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- A not well-thought-out mix of treated and untreated wood
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- Rotten trim
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- Bug damage!
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- New post bolted into the concrete header
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- New structure. The board on the left will get removed with the old door.
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- New framing complete…just needs trim boards
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- Rotten garage doors circa 2004
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New doors will make a huge difference! There’s a house on the Glisan/39th roundabout with a new set of the faux carriage doors; they look very nice.
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Ours will not be the super cool stained doors but will be steel ones. We found some wood ones that were somewhat reasonable, but the weather exposure of our doors is just too much. We will be painting them to match the house’s colors.
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You did an excellent job with the repairs you’ve made. Appreciate a well documented home repair article.