Garage Doors

lol. honestly its a very easy job just make sure ya timber frame work that you will be fixing door frame to is plumb as poss and allow a few mm tolerance. a 2nd hand item will have holes all ready drilled for fixing the frame and all. just look out for sill height is all

 

when i started up my self 4years ago in my wee workshop got an remote controlled roller door fitted. well cool. not that expensive. just big enough to fit a transit through. around the four hundred pound mark if i remember.

 

Agreed the door frame should be as plumb as possible in the existing structure......

......easiest way is to stand so you are looking along the face/wall the doorframe is going in and make it parallel to the existing structure...........'cos if it isn't, you could find that everything is twisted, which means the door will have to twist as well (or basically it won't shut properly).

 

I have a hormann motorised door, its sectional and opens up the way onto runners that allow it to slide over the ceiling, its double skinned and insulated and as such is to heavy for continual manual operation. my last home had a garage with crappy up and over door fitted,my father and law who is a joiner/carpenter made me a set of heavy wooden doors and if I had a choice id love these again, they were hinged and had a device that locked them in the open position to protect from wind damage.
whatever you buy consider thieves and buy as heavy as you can afford. my garage is fully alarmed with movement sensors,door sensors and a phone call system separate from my land line. (and a big gun handled by a 15.5 stone ex rugby playing ex firefighter.)

 

I'm surprised that your stalker with the many girlfriends from across europe hasn't jumped on this one and started humping your leg.

 

As mentioned, just get what is handy to operate. Most locking mechanisms are crap, so you basically want something that has good running gear.
Put more into the security of the garage. Alarms are a great deterrent, have it on an autodialer. Sensors on all doors and windows is best. Nice big visible alarm sounder with a light, external lighting on par's.

 

insulated roller

 

and a shotgun.

 

Shotguns are optional

 

Compound bow

 

seen that, most effective lol

 

A bow and arrow? Not really that scary unless you do the Indian sounds and the fief is a cowboy

 

keep a lion in your garage.

 

These signs do unnerve people, especially when you have one in the upstairs window

 

A lion, a lion, really a lion. Ain't seen many for sale. I heard of big bastard angry dogs, never a lion.

 

Not hunting boar, just trying to scare a bungular