Unique & Custom Applications

Our client on this project was local contractor Nate Parker who built a standalone garage. His client had seen a sliding garage door (pictured) that ran down the side of the garage and fancied one for themselves. But they wanted the individual door panels to closely match their existing front entry door (inset).

The afore mentioned standalone garage.
As you might imagine, we spent considerable time cogitating exactly how this would be done, given that there wasn’t a manufactured product that we could purchase and simply install. This was pretty much going to be custom from the get go.
We contracted with a local sash manufacturer to build us 5-large replicas of the property owner’s front door.

However, the width to height ratio of the new doors, as dictated by garage door opening, necessitated that each door only had 6-lites, instead of the 9. We purchased the best barn-door track & roller hardware system that money could buy at that time. All the doors were connected together by means of continuous hinges, which also created a seal between the doors.

We had the doors pre-primed and began hanging them on the track that we had hung upon the 4X6 structure we had anchored to the interior wall that was positioned as predetermined for the necessary clearances relative to the masonry foundation wall that can be seen in shot #3.

Some of the hardware had to be custom manufactured. We have done a number of projects over the years with B&R Machine in the Lake Grove area whenever we’ve needed this type of custom hardware produced or customized.

One of trickiest problems to resolve was how to get the trailing edge of the last door to pull away from the radiused portion of the track in the corner of the building and sit up tight against the edge of the opening when in the closed position.

I don’t have room here to explain in detail, but suffice to say that with the use of a high-end skate-board roller, the trailing edge of the last door had its own custom track that positioned the door as needed when the doors where all pulled closed.

The leading edge of the door was outfitted with a safety sensor that shuts the motor off in the event that someone or something gets caught or hit by the door when it’s closing, not unlike the automated roll-down doors have.

A very fun and satisfying project to say the least. We relish the challenge of custom projects.

In 2007, “Oregon Home” magazine ran a feature on the project in their March-April publication. If interested, the entire article can be read in the Accolades section of this web-site.