Got the garage door in

We got our new garage door finally! It looks so much better and I am looking forward to being able to get in and out of the garage easily now. As it was, I used to pile things up and return them to the garage in a heap because it was too hard to get in there. You had to unlock a sticky pad lock, brace the door with your knee and jiggle it open, lift it up (and hope it hadn't rained recently or it is extra heavy), and then prop it with a stick and hope the stick doesn't go through.

C's comment: "It looks like a real house back here."

The only problem is that they chipped out some of the stucco which now has to be patched. They didn't tell me this until today. The only reason it's an issue is that the stucco is already done, so any patching will be conspicuous. Oh well. We are going to put in a few windows and a door on the garage, so we'll need some patching anyway and we may paint at some point since the color did not come out the way I wanted (I wanted a much richer brown, like cocoa or mile chocolate. )

The other problem is that the motor for the opener is very low - well under 6' - and it is right in the middle of the room, which really limits what we can do with the room. We want to finish some of the space and have lots of plans for it, so preserving the headroom was a really big deal. It was the main criteria we emphasized with the installer. Now, granted, we only asked about headroom for the door itself as we did not know the motor was a factor (neither of us has ever seen it so low), but I would think when someone tells you they want headroom and why that an experienced installer would call this to our attention.

Here is the after picture:

(Only kidding, this is the before picture!)






And here is the real after picture: