Originally most tracks were made of steel at a thickness of 083 to handle the weight of solid wood garage doors.
Garage door steel thickness.
24 gauge best 24 gauge nominal bad 25 gauge worse or 26 gauge worst.
Low cost doors have thin panels of 27 or 28 gauge steel.
Steel doors can be insulated or non insulated.
You can also paint the door to match your home.
Now the standard for heavy wood doors.
Steel garage doors offer the broadest range of design insulation and price options.
Garage door manufacturers offer an optional panel of styrofoam insulation covered with a sheet of rigid styrene to prevent the insulation from catching on fire.
Garage door tracks carry the rollers for your garage door and help the door to travel smoothly up and down.
Not all garages need insulation so compare price against how you plan to use your garage.
28 gauge steel garage doors can be bent by hand and can actually be cut with a standard box knife.
The thickness of the garage door tracks is dependent on the weight of the garage door.
Second garage doors have steel panels that vary in thickness.
Steel garage doors can have panels of as little as 1 8 inches and be the most cost effective but offer little insulation.
When shopping for a steel garage door two features are particularly worth giving some thought to.
What thickness of steel is their garage door made from.
Clopay manufactures a variety of styles from carriage house garage doors to classic raised panel garage doors in several factory finished colors.