Old One Piece Garage Door

In our opinion this is more important with an older one piece garage door system.

Old one piece garage door.

Many of the old style wood tilt up doors are being replaced by steel sectional roll up doors. Older garage doors were made of one piece of wood metal or fiberglass. One piece garage doors typically consist of a frame work of 2 x 3 dimensional lumber and the surface skin usually plywood. Field installation and adjustment is fast and simple largely because the door is one piece.

However it is still possible to purchase one piece garage doors as you may not have the ability to fit a sectional garage door due to the low headroom clearance or other interior exterior factors or simply because of dislike of the design and functionality of the sectional door. Aluminum and fiberglass skins are also in use. When you pull them open they swing out and up toward you and therefore have been called shin busters or chin busters. The door sits straight up in the opening during installation and no ladders are required.

Building a 1 pc steel door out of a wayne mark 8000 sectional. Due to the lack of demand for one piece garage doors the market has been reduced in businesses that manufacture this type of door. Decorative add ons are often applied to the skin see construction styles below. These one piece doors swing open and closed.