Garage doors sold, installed & manufactured in Sacramento, CA

Our brand of choice is our own, but we also carry Wayne Dalton, Amarr, Clopay and other brands.

We make and design custom wood garage doors also known as carriage house style. We also offer custom made hand crafted door hardware. We sell to designers and contractors as well as other door companies. We also sell direct to residential customers for added savings.

Once your door is on the bench you are welcome to come by the shop and see it while it is being built. Most people come by while it is being stained, so they can look at the color on their own door instead of a sample chip. Give us a call and we will set up a time that works.

Two things in a door that nobody thinks to ask about are the glue and the insulation, and both of them are where a cheap door gives itself away. We glue ours with Titebond II, which is the one part wood glue that meets the ANSI Type II standard for water resistance. In thirty years of building doors we have not had a single one come apart at the glue line, and in this valley a door goes through a lot of heat.

For insulation we use Owens Corning R30. Most doors you can buy come with R13 in them, and the difference is not something you have to take our word for. Stand inside a garage with an R30 door closed and you can hear it. It is quieter, and in July it is a good deal cooler in there.

We are happy to show you how your door goes together, because that is the part nobody else will show you.

The thing people worry about most on a wood door is the grain. No two boards are the same, and if nobody pays attention to it you end up with grain running one way on one section and another way on the section above it, or one panel that takes the stain darker than the rest. From the street that is all you see. So we lay the boards out and pick which goes where before anything gets glued up, and we keep the grain running through the door the way it should. When it comes time to stain, that is the part worth coming by for, because the color on your own door is never quite the color on a sample chip.

Not every door needs to be custom made. There are plenty of manufacturers selling in Sacramento with similar options and quality, and we carry Wayne Dalton, Amarr and Clopay along with several others. If a factory door is the right answer for your house and your budget, we will tell you so and order you one rather than talk you into something built by hand.

We have been making doors for over 50 years. In that time we have built doors for designers, contractors and other door companies as well as for homeowners, and a fair number of the carriage doors you see around the older parts of Sacramento came off our benches. If you would rather see finished work than read about it, have a look at our wood garage doors.

Garage Door Construction Defined.

Stain Grade Carriage Door

The face is 3/8" stainable plywood, chosen so the grain comes up when it takes the stain. Behind it the frame is engineered stile and rail in 1/4" marine grade mahogany, back cut a quarter inch and joined tongue and groove, and we shear the front and the back for strength. It is more work than a factory door gets and it is the reason these doors stay flat and square for decades.

Paint Grade Carriage Door

Paint grade is built the same way behind the face. The difference is the face itself. Instead of stainable plywood we use M.D.O., a smooth overlay panel made to be painted, and it costs less than the stain grade material. If the door is going to be painted the color of the house anyway, there is no reason to pay for wood you are going to cover up. Outside we use 1/2" Extira exterior composite trim.

Steel Carriage Door

Our steel carriage doors are made from 2" flush sandwiched steel front and back, with 1/2" Extira exterior composite trim on the outside.

If you are not sure which way to go, call us and describe the house. We will tell you what we would put on it. And if your existing door has years left in it, we would rather repair it than sell you a new one.

Call Garage Door Repair Pros at 916-238-6413 to talk about a custom door.