Renovating your garage means making a lot of important decisions. This includes the decision impacting the look of your property for years. For any style of home there is a good case to be made to install wood garage doors during your renovation.
Looking at the options available in wood garage doors is a starting point in your garage renovation product. Remember the doors are going to be a large percentage of the front of your building and they should coordinate with the garage as well as with the home. With all the options in wood doors, choosing a style to match entrance doors and selecting a paint grade or stain will be easy.
Paint Grade or Stained
When the term paint grade is used with wood garage doors it indicates the wood will come primed and will need to be painted. These doors are typically made of cedar and will vary in thickness based on the manufacturer.
Wood to be stained is the best quality of wood and will be carefully selected to match in grain and color throughout the door. These doors, as with the paint grade, may be solid wood or they may be designed with windows in the top section of the panels.
Insulation Factor
Generally thicker wood garage doors will provide better insulation than other types of doors on the market. When a wood door is combined with an insulated core, the doors can have an R value of between 7 to 9, which is far better than what is offered with other materials.
Windows on modern designs and styles of wood garage doors will not greatly reduce the insulation factor of the door. They are a good way to allow light into the garage without compromising on privacy and security. Windows are also aesthetically pleasing and break up a very large space with larger or smaller windows in a pattern.
The biggest case for wood garage doors will always be the fact they can be fully customized. This allows the homeowner to select just the style and look they want even if they do not have a standard sized garage door. With everything from carriage style doors to overhead doors there is no limit on the look and the design options for virtually any garage.
At Nick’s Building Supply we offer a top selection of natural Alaskan cedar wood garage doors and paint grade cedar doors.
