Notes from the garage, written by the people who fix them.

The first of these went up in June 2018, when Chad had been hanging doors for about twenty-five years and Clay was finishing at Centennial High. It walks through the three decisions behind a new door: the style that suits the house, whether insulation earns its keep, and which opener the door needs, from a jackshaft on the wall to a quiet belt drive under a bonus room.

The second came out of the February 2021 winter storm, when ice froze a friend’s door to the slab and his opener bent the bottom panel trying to lift it. It covers the questions people ask after weather damage: whether the repair clears a $1,000 deductible, which storms a typical policy covers, and how our estimates and invoices work with an adjuster.

Both are kept close to how they were first written, with typos fixed and a short answer added at the top. Between them they draw on Chad’s 32 years in the trade and Clay’s 6 years running the company. New posts will each be about one real job of ours, told in order: the call, what we found, and what it took.

Two shorter pieces from the old blog now live on the pages they were about: straightening a panel after a car backs into it and converting an old one-piece door.