Design Your Custom Garage Door in Colorado
Create A Truly Unique Garage Door To Enhance The Look & Feel of Your Property
Design A Custom Garage Door For Your Home or Business
If you’re looking for a garage door that’s truly unique, consider designing your own custom garage door with Grand Timber Doors. You can choose the style, color, and even the materials. This allows you to create a garage door that perfectly matches your home or business.
There are many different options available when it comes to designing a custom garage door. You can choose a style that’s similar to your home’s architecture, or go with a completely different look. The color options are also vast, so you can find the perfect hue to match your property.
You’ll also need to choose the materials for your custom garage door. There are many different types of materials to choose from, including wood, metal, and glass.
If you’re unsure about how to design your own custom garage door, Grand Timber Doors can help. We offer a variety of services, including garage door design and installation. We can help you create the perfect garage door for your home or business.
Shown below are some of our most popular door designs for our customers in the Rocky Mountains. While some designers may select one of these options, others will use a combination of two or more drawings and their imagination to create their own unique door. Before we begin construction we submit a detailed, to scale, drawing for your approval.
Learn about our services in based in Aurora, CO, and serving all of Colorado, Utah, and Wyoming:
Our design team will help translate your concepts into the dream door for your dream home.
Design Your Custom Garage Door
Energy Efficient Garage Door Designs
Garage Door Section Options
Grand Timber garage doors offer three section options. Sections provide insulation values as well as the structural base for receiving the wood overlay. Our use of polyurethane insulated steel sections provides our doors with industry leading insulation values, making them ideal for the energy conscious homeowner. The characteristics of the three section options are shown below:
The section samples shown have been laboratory tested for both R-value and air filtration.
Hardboard | Steel-195 | Steel-599 | |
|---|---|---|---|
Insulation R-Value | 5.4 | 12.8 | 17.5 |
Sectional Material | Wood hardboard | Steel | Steel |
Insulation Material | Polystyrene | Polyurethane | Polyurethane |
Sectional Thickness | 1 3/8″ | 1 5/8″ | 2.0″ |
Warranty | 1 year | 2 years | 2 years |
Sectional Thermal Break | no | yes | yes |
Between Section Seal | no | yes | yes |
Air Infiltration | .47 | .11 | .08 |
Fuel Cost Comparison
Fuel costs can be an important consideration in the Rocky Mountain West. The changing climates in Colorado, Utah and Wyoming can definitely impact your fuel bill. The section samples shown have been laboratory tested for both R-value and air filtration. Heat loss through these sections has been measured using the variables noted below:
• Natural gas heating
fuel costs at $13.92 per
1000 cubic feet
• 128 square feet of
tested space
(16×8 garage door)
• Climate data from the
four selected cities
Hardboard | Steel-195 | Steel-599 | |
|---|---|---|---|
PHOENIX | |||
Total heat lost (BTU/hr) | 429 | 122 | 89 |
Total annual fuel cost | $65 | $19 | $14 |
KANSAS CITY | |||
Total heat lost (BTU/hr) | 1,445 | 326 | 237 |
Total annual fuel cost | $174 | $50 | $36 |
NEW YORK | |||
Total heat lost (BTU/hr) | 1,183 | 337 | 245 |
Total annual fuel cost | $180 | $51 | $37 |
DENVER | |||
Total heat lost (BTU/hr) | 1,526 | 434 | 316 |
Total annual fuel cost | $233 | $66 | $48 |