Detached garage...
Non-insulated steel raised panel or ribbed sectioned (your preference) door
with at least 14 gauge wide body hinges, steel rollers with ten
ball-bearings, .075 guage tracks, heavy walled pulleys if you are going with
extension springs or high-cycle coated torsion springs and solid shaft. Lift
cables should be constructed of 7 x 19 wire. Bottom brackets should 11 guage
steel and the top brackets at least 12 guage.
This will get you a decent door with minimal headaches.
Rich
http://www.garagedoorsupply.com



"montana wildhack" wrote in message
news:2005041318383575750%montana@wildhackinvalid.. .
We have determined that our old wood garage doors need to be replaced.
There's a good local place to buy new doors, but before we have to listen
to some salesman, I thought perhaps I could gather some wisdom here.

We live in NE Ohio, so we get a lot of snow, a good amount of rain, very
strong wind and very hot, humid summers. The garage is old (the house is
1929), detatched, unheated, brick and cinderblock-ish. We don't have any
kids to run into the door as they learn to drive.

We want to have good doors with windows that will last a long time (but
not cost a fortune). I'm reading up on the materials used, but honestly, I
don't know what really fits our needs. We don't have any preferences, but
we don't want cheap, ugly, curse ourselves (and the salesman) later for
being dopes doors.

Have you any experience and wisdom to share with me?