Glass and aluminum · Riverside County
Anodized aluminum frame with frosted, tinted or clear glazing. It floods a dark garage with daylight and it belongs on modern architecture. This is the one tier where the door leads rather than matches.
What it is
Full-view doors are an aluminum frame carrying glazed panels rather than a solid skin. The frame is anodized rather than painted, so it does not chalk in the sun, and the glazing can be frosted for privacy, tinted for heat, or clear where the view is worth having.
The transformation is of the space behind it as much as the elevation. A garage that has been dark for twenty years becomes usable as a workshop, a gym or a studio, which is why we install as many of these to workshops as to houses.
They are heavier than they look, and the spring set has to be sized to the actual door rather than to whatever was there before. Getting that wrong is how a beautiful door becomes a service call.
Installed by us
Straight talk
Both are avoidable if you know before you order rather than after.
Where it earns its money
We have installed these to commercial workshops as well as homes. The daylight argument is the same in both.
Photographs undersell these. Beau can point you at ones we have installed locally so you can look at the real thing.
What to decide
Questions
Heat, privacy, insulation and what it does to a dark garage.
Call and ask. Beau has been doing this in Riverside County for over thirty years and there is no charge for a question.
(951) 232-9778Mon–Sat · 8am–6pmBecause a door cannot be priced down a phone line honestly. Weight, spring cycle rating, hardware age and access all change the figure, and none of them can be assessed from a description. A phone number is a guess, and guesses get revised upward on the driveway.
No. Looking at a door and telling you what it needs is not a service we bill for. There is no diagnostic fee added at the end, and the measure for a replacement is free whether or not you order one.
A standard single or double door is usually a half-day once the door is on site. Custom wood and full-view glass doors are made to order and take longer to arrive, though the installation itself is much the same.
It is worth it if the garage is attached to living space or you use it as a workshop. An insulated door will not air-condition the garage, but it takes the edge off afternoon heat soak and it is noticeably quieter to operate.
If the garage is detached and used for storage, the money is usually better spent on the door itself than on the insulation rating.
Not usually. A working opener will run a new door as long as the weight is similar. If you are moving from a light uninsulated door to a heavy insulated or wood one, the opener may need upgrading, and we will tell you before you buy.
Yes. Removal and disposal of the old door and hardware is included in every replacement we quote. You will not find it stacked beside the bins after we leave.
Once a year for an average household. A service means checking spring balance, tightening hardware, lubricating rollers, hinges and bearings, and testing the safety reverse. It is the cheapest way to avoid the calls we get most often.
Where we do this work
Every location page carries the ZIP codes, the drive from our Riverside shop, and what actually breaks doors on those streets — because a garage door in Blythe does not live the same life as one in Eastvale.
Further reading
Glass in a 115-degree valley is not the same decision it is on the coast. The guides below cover the heat, and what a glass door shows from the street.
What to specify — material, insulation, finish, hardware, seal and operator — for the inland valleys, the Hemet valley, the San Gorgonio Pass, the Coachella Valley, the mountains and the Palo Verde Valley.
Read the guideThe door is usually the biggest wall of the garage, and it often faces the sun. The fixes, ranked from free to structural, and what not to store out there.
Read the guideHow garages really get broken into — an open door, a hooked release, a remote in a parked car — and the fixes ranked by effort, starting with the ones that cost nothing.
Read the guide