A New Garage Door

Oh cool, I own a home, I can be a DIY-er (do-it-yourself-er)!

– me in ~2019

My garage gym took two years to build because I made poor choices.

My garage gym took two years to build because I made poor choices.

One of those poor choices was to insulate the walls of the garage. In the process, I took down the 50-year-old garage door opener and railing. But, when I finished the insulation project, I decided not to replace the opener and resorted to manual operation of the garage door.

Okay, I lied. I didn’t decide to have a manual garage door.

I attempted to mount the railing and the garage door opener. But, I stripped one of the railing’s lag bolts during the process. Only one lag bolt held the railing to the wall rather than two. When I opened the garage door after my DIY re-installation, the opener pulled the railing right off the garage wall, and both the railing and opener came crashing down.

Oops!

I ordered the garage door through Costco, which earned me a nice Costco gift certificate worth 15% of the cost of the new garage door. Sadly, I can burn through this gift certificate in two trips.

The new garage door took three months from order to installation. The salesman said the delay was due to freight delays from the pandemic and China’s COVID Zero policy, where large portions of citizens were quarantined for weeks.

That was three months ago. The new garage door was installed a few weeks ago, and I love it. I never thought a garage door could change how much I liked being in the garage.

The configuration I purchased included side-mounted garage door opener, which made the garage feel spacious.