Asked on Mar 19, 2015
Anyone cut a metal garage door?
by
Rjack
+14
My husband & I totally disagree on this one.
We're converting a rental property from a two door garage door to a single.
He has a friend who is changing out his single metal garage door to wood.
Husband says its free so he thinks he can cut the garage door to a small size to fit our rental. REALLY! I'm thinking this is going to take a lot longer, end up not being 'free', not to mention how tacky it will look. He claims all his handy man jobs have been good.
My response - most of the time. But many ended up costing more money because of all the 'extra' materials, tools, & certainly more time.
I would love to hear from others. How do I convince this man to spend the $800-900 it cost for a new insulated garage door vs taking & improvising with a free one?
We're converting a rental property from a two door garage door to a single.
He has a friend who is changing out his single metal garage door to wood.
Husband says its free so he thinks he can cut the garage door to a small size to fit our rental. REALLY! I'm thinking this is going to take a lot longer, end up not being 'free', not to mention how tacky it will look. He claims all his handy man jobs have been good.
My response - most of the time. But many ended up costing more money because of all the 'extra' materials, tools, & certainly more time.
I would love to hear from others. How do I convince this man to spend the $800-900 it cost for a new insulated garage door vs taking & improvising with a free one?
Just take the whole door off, build an exterior wall, install a new support post, move the garage door rails over to the proper location and hang the 'new' door. Theres no reason to cut the original door at all. Do-able.
I can tell your husband that wood garage doors will be drafty, bow and sag, splinter and crack....talk about tachy!!
Actually you were going from 2 single doors to 1 double door. If your husband was thinking to replace the single doors with (free) better ones by cutting them to size...he was correct. He would have saved you a lot of money. It is very easy and doable to cut the ends to size, after removing the brackets (duh). But what do men know? They're just trouble.
Search Craigslist for an almost free option of the exact size.
Won't work. The panels are made to fit. The ends are reinforced to accept the roller brackets. Cutting anything will compromise the door structure and make it almost impossible fit.
You, wife with doubts, should contact a garage door installer or manufacturer on the internet or by phone and explain your husbands erstwhile prospective folly. You will be urged not to do this as it will probably effect the STRUCTURAL INTEGRITY of the entire door. My very own husband(Bless his heart) has done this very same foolish thing with a 'FREE' door! And he already had all the tool to do it! Still a waste of time and effort. The garage opening is now covered with a tarp. A better "eyesore" than the collapsing door with the frame damaged! But then I am a super tolerant wife of many many years who knows what battles to pick and when. Best of luck!
Hi Rjack: Well, I'm guessing you can't, he really wants to do this, so I'd let him. However, make sure you tell him you don't think it would work and that you are reserving the right to say, "I told you so!" :)
It has to fit on the track, so I don't see how cutting it would work, but I always say, let them try.