Adding Carriage-Style Garage Doors
By , This Old House magazine
Photo: Kolin Smith
The new door arrives in four or five boxes about a week after we measure the opening and place the order. (For this job, the owner had the sections painted with an acrylic latex from C2 Paint.) The first thing we do is take off the old springs, then one by one all the old door sections and old tracks are unbolted and carried away.