Wooden Garage Doors

We are also able to offer our garage doors as insulated garage doors. These differ from our standard specifications slightly as they are 58mm thick rather than the usual 45mm thick. From the outside, they look the same as all the above doors; however, from the inside, rather than seeing the back of the boarding and horizontal rails, you see a similar view as you would when looking at the front of the doors because they are boarded both sides. This enables us to sandwich in insulation between the two layers of boarding.
Our door frames are also available to suit our insulated doors; again, these differ in size to our standard door frames as these finish at 70mm x 85mm (less rebates) rather than our standard door frame size of 70mmx 70mm (less rebates) and are supplied pre-fitted with draft excluder.
As well as all being made to the sizes you require, our standard designs of garage doors pictured above can be customised to your exact requirements.For some of the more commonly requested customisations please see our Customise your garage door section.
If you ve something specific not mentioned then please get in touch and we ll let you know whether it can be done or not.
Trying to match an existing pair of wooden garage doors?
Got your own side hung garage door design in mind?
Then please see our bespoke garage door pair for details on the information we need to manufacture a pair of garage doors to your own design. If you can sketch it, we can make it!
Menai 632 Alyn 545 Clwyd 493
Snowdonia 709 Conway 638 Brenig 615 Aberconway 632 Aber 577 Elwy 585
Each garage door we make is treated as an individual job, we don t mass produce cheaply or alter existing doors to suit your sizes. The process of making our garage doors is as follows,
The garage doors start out as rough sawn timber, this is cut oversize (height, width and thickness) and planed up at this stage the timber if needed is straightened (trees don t always grow straight!).
Each job is then marked up individually, in the case of a customer ordering several different pairs (at different sizes) of say our Conway doors (or any of our garage doors with windows) we ll quite often give you a ring at this stage to discuss the sizes of the openings for glazing as we do try and get the openings for glazing as near as possible the same sizes in the different pairs.
Once marked up the doors are ready for jointing, as we ve mentioned above all rails are tenoned and the stiles (vertical outer uprights of the doors) are morticed out.
Close up image of the joints used, the wedges are cut flush to the door stiles once the glue is dry and then sanded smooth
Mortices go right the way through the stiles (we don t and will not manufacture our doors on a stub tenon joint this is where the mortice only goes part of the way through the stiles of the doors, this results in easier to make doors but the length of the tenon is reduced thereby giving you a weaker door where the joints will more than likely fail).
Tenons length is the full width of the stiles, so when jointed up the tenon goes right the way through the stiles and can be secured with wedges (and glue).
The doors are then put glued, put together and wedged up naked, with no boarding added at this stage and then left to dry. At this stage any glazing bars are also glued into the doors.
Once dry the boarding is then added to the doors, wherever the boarding meets a solid, full thickness rail it is glued and jointed into the rail we do not sit the boarding in open rebates (if we were to do this, then with the natural movement of timber you would soon be showing gaps where the boarding moves).