Your vacation home is a little slice of heaven. Whether it's on a lake, river, or ocean, you can't enjoy your recreational property to its fullest without getting out on the water. You need a boat, and that boat needs a boathouse, and the boathouse needs a marine door.
If the garage door on your boathouse needs an upgrade, choose a premium garage door that will protect your boat for years to come. Image from Pexels.
A Marine Garage Door is the Best Option for Your Boathouse
Garage doors come in many different styles. To make a good decision, you need to know what features you need in your garage door.
Whether you need a garage door that is modern and flashy, offers the most durable protection, or is simply the best quality you can fit in your budget, Garaga offers plenty of marine garage doors to choose from.
Glass paneled garage doors allow you to proudly show off your boat while still keeping it protected from the elements. This lake house design is from PattyMac.
Option 1 > A Transparent Garage Door to showcase your boat
This boathouse image comes from Houzz and features glass lots of glass accents throughout the boathouse. The glass windows of full-view California garage door give the boat storage more of a showcase look.
This attractive boathouse features a garage door made with glass panels framed in aluminum for durability.
Panoramic garage doors display your boat like the hard-earned trophy it is. The look is aesthetically appealing while still keeping your boat safe in the boathouse.
This model of glass garage door significantly brightens the inside of your boathouse so you won't have to worry about lighting during the day.
Boathouses are traditionally limited in space since most of them are used only for storage. If you've decided to modify your boathouse into a three-season room, you can select a panoramic garage door like the one featured on this boathouse designed by PattyMac.
There's no limit to the possibilities of uses for your boathouse and it can be customized and furnished to your liking. Doing so can add to the living space of your cottage or vacation home and your boathouse will feel like an entirely extra room. It will feel even bigger if you go with a glass garage door to open up your views.
This dark charcoal boathouse shared on Houzz is almost reminiscent of a waterfront fire station with the bold black details and the red furniture accents. The sharp corners and squared-off roof patio of the boathouse give it a modern masculine appeal, and the black aluminum framing of the glass garage door fits perfectly with the color scheme.
Accidents happen, so how sturdy is an all-glass garage door?
These garage doors are available in tempered glass options instead of traditional glass, so if you or someone else accidentally bumps into it with a boat or jet ski, anyone nearby is a lot less likely to get hurt.
So, when your half-blind Aunt Betty get's a wild hair to take the speedboat for a spin and doesn't see the glass garage door, she'll be much safer running into the tempered glass, which has been heat-treated to be 4-5 times as strong as a regular glass panel. Tempered glass shatters into small harmless pieces instead of shards, similar to how most car windshields would shatter.
Look at these matching California garage doors in 6' x 8'6" and 16' x 8'6". They are sharp and modern with the privacy of sandblasted glass.
California full-view garage door is available in several different types of glass.
- Clear glass, very self-explanatory, offers the clearest view from either side of the garage door.
- Sandblasted glass can be penetrated by light, but not your vision. This is ideal if you'd prefer to keep the contents of your boathouse concealed and may be a better option if you don't get to use your vacation home as often as you like, so your boathouse is often unattended.
- Tempered glass treatment is available for all kinds of glass except laminated glass and is much more robust than it's regular counterparts.
- Polycarbonate is a plastic option that is relatively easy to maintain with some tips you can learn if you read this FAQ. It's not very scratch-resistant, but you almost never have to worry about it shattering.
Condensation is a major issue with the California's glass panels. To stay on top of it, your boathouse garage door will require routine up-keep. You don't want your garage door looking dingy and gross from the condensation build-up which will no doubt get bugs and debris stuck into it. Condensation can also damage anything you have kept inside your boathouse, so make sure the garage door is opened regularly to improve ventilation.
Townships Collection offers premium construction garage doors that give a secure, rustic appeal to your boathouse.
Image found on Pinterest. These rust-colored marine doors give an appealing contrast to the light blue of the boathouse, while the wood imitation finish carries a Craftsman's theme to this little lake cottage. The garage doors themselves are not real wood and therefore have more longevity to keep your boathouse secure.
The Townships Collection is a line of overhead garage doors that offer marine door versions known for their longevity and durability. They have a vintage carriage house or rustic cottage aesthetic that fits perfectly when viewed from the water.
This Princeton P-12 design, is an attention-grabber with the 8 lites panoramic windows and the black, vertical overlays. These features give the garage doors a very customized, one-of-a-kind appeal.
Townships Collection garage doors are made with rust-resistance metals that require little maintenance to continue to looking sharp.
To help keep the cold air out on chilly fall or spring mornings, the Township Collection garage doors boast an R-16 value. Imagine curling up with a cup of coffee in your renovated boathouse lounge on a spring morning. The insulation of these garage doors help to make it a little less drafty.
The Eastman E-21, garage door in Claystone with Ice White overlays and 8 lite Panoramic windows would be perfect for your boathouse. The color and accent of this garage door would go well with any existing boathouse color scheme.
For Farmhouse and Modern Farmhouse styles, overlays in a variety of available configurations take your boathouse marine doors from boring and drab to giving you Craftsman look. The overlays are made of PVC so you can create the look of wooden accents without the breakdown.
Makow Associates Architects Inc. designed this boathouse. This is impeccable architecture, as the contrasting "V" lines make it fun to look at and appealing to the eye.
Dura+ hardware make these marine doors even more resistant to the elements.
Your boathouse is meant to protect things that are important to you. It needs to be outfitted with materials that last, from the garage doors themselves to the hardware that holds them in place. When you're in your vacation home, you don't have too much extra time to be tinkering with things that are breaking down. Boathouses are known for high levels of moisture and humidity, so you need to make sure you're using materials that won't break down easily when exposed to those elements.
Acadia 138 and Regal Garage Doors: Offering the Best Bang for Your Budget Marine Doors
If you've just bought a vacation home with a boathouse that needs a little TLC, but you don't have a ton of money left over after the purchase to get a premium marine door, that's okay. You can find an overhead garage door the fits easily into your budget. Here is an FAQ how the price of garage doors is impacted by several different things.
Here are 2 nice choices
1. The Acadia 138 garage door
The Acadia 138 North Hatley LP, 9' x 7', Desert Sand, windows with Richmond Inserts still looks high end without costing you high-end prices to update your boathouse.
Featuring an R-12 insulation rating, the Acadia 138 is built with galvanized steel for stability, though bear in mind the hardware pictured here would be an upgrade worth the price.
2. The Regal garage door
This Regal Classic Long, 9' x 7', with clear windows, looks like a bar of dark chocolate with its embossed details. Though we don't recommend taking a bite out of this one, these garage doors remind us of roasting marshmallows for s'mores by the lake after a long day of fun on the water.
Regal garage doors are cheaper when they're in the non-insulated form versus polystyrene insulation. If that works for you and what you need for your boathouse, it can also work better for your budget.
Small Boats Deserve Quality Garage Doors Too
If you need the marine door to be pretty small, Garaga garage doors range from 4' wide to 20' wide. Your garage door can be a totally custom sized so we can accommodate boathouse garage doors for your bass boat or jet ski.
For instructions on how to figure out what size you need, here's how to do it.
Boat House Garage Door Openers for your convenience
Your boathouse now has the perfect marine door. But how are you going to get it opened and closed? An electric garage door opener, that's how.
Imagine bringing your boat back to the boathouse after some fun out on the water, and darn it! Your boathouse garage door is closed! How are you going to get it open from inside the boat? An electric garage door opener by LiftMaster can give you an easy way to open your boathouse garage door without having to get out of your boat.
Did you know boathouse garage door openers can be ordered with a CarWash modification?
This waterproofing modification for electric garage door openers is essential for use in a boathouse. Standard electric garage door openers wouldn't be able to hold up to the damp environment of a boathouse.
LiftMaster's H and J commercial door openers are the best possible option for your boathouse!
You want to be mindful of vibration and noise if your boathouse is renovated to include a lounge area or if there is even a bedroom build on the next floor above the garage door opener. The LiftMaster H and LiftMaster J are mounted to the wall so you don't have to worry about how noisy it is.
Many people lift their boats higher into the boathouse for long-term storage. A wall-mounted garage door opener makes sure you're still able to do this by staying out of the way. Image from Houzz.
LiftMaster garage door openers help improve security for your boat and belongings.
LiftMaster garage door openers help prevent boathouse break-ins with several key features not seen in other garage door openers.
- Unique code – Get a new code from the linkable security app each time you need to lift your boathouse door for enhanced security.
- Motion-sensing invisible light beams allow the garage door opener to "see" if anything crosses the path of the garage door and will the stop the movement of the marine door immediately if the sensor is tripped.
- Camera – A boathouse security camera is never a bad idea to check in on your belongings any time you want. You never want to actually catch intruders invading your space, but a camera would give you some peace of mind that if there is a break in, it will be recorded.
- Open Door Awareness – Did you leave your curling iron plugged in? Is the coffee pot still on? Did you turn off the oven? Did you close the marine door on your boathouse at your lake cottage? Our busy lives are distracting, but the MyQ app technology allows you to check the status of your marine door and adjust it remotely.
- Those are just a few of LiftMaster's amazing features.
You can get a convenient electric garage door opener for your vacation home as well. Discover all the residential models!
Our team can help you find the perfect marine door.
Get custom garage doors to match your cottage to your boathouse with seamless designs like this garage door is the Eastman E-22 design, 9' x 7', Ice White door with Ice White overlays and Orion windows.
Here at Portes Ram Doors, we can help you find the best garage door for your home, cottage, and even your boathouse and we can do it well because we've been doing it for years. We offer the best in Canadian-made sectional overhead doors and we have experienced professionals to address your inquiries and concerns.
Give us a call at 613-749-2138.
Otherwise, our Design Centre, offers you a virtual simulation to design your custom marine doors, and then superimpose them to an image of your boathouse to see if you like the look of your vision. You can customize every detail in hundreds of combinations! We can get you a free quote on your new garage door by email.
A marine door designed by you, for you!
Get a completely custom garage door for your boathouse! Available in a range of colors, sizes, designs and details, you can get a marine door as unique as your personality to level-up your boathouse.
Contact us to learn more.
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