Finally got my doors!! A couple weeks ago I had told them to give me a fir delivery date or I was going to cancel my order and demand my deposit back. They responded back with saying that they couldn't guarantee a delivery date, but if I wanted to cancel they'd make and exception and refund my money, but I had 48 hours to decide. They pretty much called my bluff. After waiting 4+ months already, they knew as well as I did that if I cancelled, I'd just start the clock over again and end up paying more as prices have risen. I had called a couple places, and everyone is 4-6 months lead time on garage doors.
But about a week ago they finally advised that my door were ready for pickup. So took the Friday off, hooked up the trailer and made the 10 round trip (wholesaler, much cheaper than anywhere local) to go get them. Bonus was that there's a guy en route that had a set of Goodmark half pans for sale for far less than what I would have paid with shipping etc.
Buddy helped me get the vertical tracks and set the panels in place on the Sunday.
9x8 door getting set in place. This one is going to require a low headroom modifications. The top right corner interferes with the building structure. More of a lack of experience/planning on my part when it came to specing the design of the building
Getting the top track on the 9x16 in place before setting the last panel
View from outside with all panels set in place. Had to move the tractor out to make room to work, but with the panels only set in place, it got trapped outside for a bit.
That was about as far as I got the first weekend before having to leave for the rest of the week on a work trip. Got home Saturday afternoon dead *ss tired. But Sunday I managed to get the tracks on the big door secured and had to build a structure to support the spring bracket. The metal building design is a bit of a pain in the *ss for stuff like this. Since I wanted a 16' door, they made the structure such that there is a supporting arch right at the front of the building. The whole front wall basically doesn't take any weight, so the header across the doors are pretty light weight. Used some 2" angle iron and went from the header across the door up to the purlins and the a bit more angle iron to bridge them where the bearing needed to sit.
Got everything bolted up, tensioned the springs and... back to being able to get inside
One more shot of the clearance from the door to where a vehicle is on the lift. The Cutlass though is pretty far forward on the lift to compensate for not having any drive train in it. Typically a car would sit a bit further back. But I also think that the lift may not be able to lift a car high enough for the trunk or something to be able to hit the door if I wanted to work with the doors open.
Still need to sort out the small door and get the openers installed. But for now at least I can now get stuff in and out of the garage and can turn on the heat without throwing away a bunch of money. Though looks like everything is starting to warm up, forecast has day time highs above freezing for the next two weeks. Won't even need to turn on the heat probably for the rest of the season unless I'm desperate to do something like paint.
But about a week ago they finally advised that my door were ready for pickup. So took the Friday off, hooked up the trailer and made the 10 round trip (wholesaler, much cheaper than anywhere local) to go get them. Bonus was that there's a guy en route that had a set of Goodmark half pans for sale for far less than what I would have paid with shipping etc.
Buddy helped me get the vertical tracks and set the panels in place on the Sunday.
9x8 door getting set in place. This one is going to require a low headroom modifications. The top right corner interferes with the building structure. More of a lack of experience/planning on my part when it came to specing the design of the building
Getting the top track on the 9x16 in place before setting the last panel
View from outside with all panels set in place. Had to move the tractor out to make room to work, but with the panels only set in place, it got trapped outside for a bit.
That was about as far as I got the first weekend before having to leave for the rest of the week on a work trip. Got home Saturday afternoon dead *ss tired. But Sunday I managed to get the tracks on the big door secured and had to build a structure to support the spring bracket. The metal building design is a bit of a pain in the *ss for stuff like this. Since I wanted a 16' door, they made the structure such that there is a supporting arch right at the front of the building. The whole front wall basically doesn't take any weight, so the header across the doors are pretty light weight. Used some 2" angle iron and went from the header across the door up to the purlins and the a bit more angle iron to bridge them where the bearing needed to sit.
Got everything bolted up, tensioned the springs and... back to being able to get inside
One more shot of the clearance from the door to where a vehicle is on the lift. The Cutlass though is pretty far forward on the lift to compensate for not having any drive train in it. Typically a car would sit a bit further back. But I also think that the lift may not be able to lift a car high enough for the trunk or something to be able to hit the door if I wanted to work with the doors open.
Still need to sort out the small door and get the openers installed. But for now at least I can now get stuff in and out of the garage and can turn on the heat without throwing away a bunch of money. Though looks like everything is starting to warm up, forecast has day time highs above freezing for the next two weeks. Won't even need to turn on the heat probably for the rest of the season unless I'm desperate to do something like paint.
