Wind Rated Garage Doors - Here's What You NEED TO KNOW! 

I'm willing to do a lot of DIY, but I'll never mess with garage door springs.

I agree Matt provides very useful information. The door he is showing wouldn't be allowed in Miami-Dade County because it is not impact rated. He even shows us the proof of what a weak door this is. My garage door is impact rated and the strength is alot higher. My garage door is rated +55/-64, A garage door rated for 107 mph would not pass our building code in Miami-Dade. Here where I live try in Miami-Dade County, old door is Wind Load 175 mph (3-second gust). But the newer codes are even stronger. But, Matt does provide great information, but remember his knowledge is limited to where he lives and he is correct. But you may or may not need much higher stronger materials. After Hurricane Andrew, I don think there was a single garage door left. Every house was missing a garage door after Hurricane Andrew. If you want to build something strong Risk Category IV wind speeds are as follows: Miami-Dade County Risk Category IV Buildings and Structures: 195 mph. Broward County Risk Category IV Buildings and Structures: 185. Hurricanes don't play.

@@dw9147 Thank you. I'm up here in NH on the Canadian border where climate extremes mean we also have some different regulations.

Or a schweiss door!

Wayne Dalton ThermoMark™ Model 530 is the most insulated garage door I could find, I love mine😎

@@perfectimagesigns5715 what did they cost you? Look amazing!

@@RaoulHira just under $3,000 plus install

@@perfectimagesigns5715 that sounds like a fairly reasonable price actually! is that including opening closing hardware remote etc? 1 car/2 car?

Been there, done that, got the T-shirt. Garage door got two dented panels one broken hinge in the center but did not collapse and still worked as designed 👍🏻

I'm trying to line up some neighbors (in a condo) for a custom order of ThermoTraks. That looks like a legit solution. I didn't know he did an episode, I'll have to go look it up. Thanks

They must not have ponied up enough cash to sponsor!!!

@@srt4b or they might void the rating on the door.

@@scorpio6587 this is a good point and a strong possibility

If he does he has violated the windload rating since the tracks must come from the manufacturer of the door

He did a video covering that. Cant recall if it’s on YT or his Instagram

Do the struts get thicker or larger when the PSF rating goes up? Or is it achieved other ways.

@@colinstu Yeah, the construction of the door remains the same, PSF is achieved thru progressively larger struts. There is a limit to the maximum rating the manufacturer will guarantee.

Now make it hurricane/tornado proof

You'll be surprised how many Air Force buildings/roads are built with subpar standards. They love to pick the "cheapest" contractors with the cheapest materials that charge the government rating, which is pretty close to double what they would normally charge to civilians. In Nebraska they're still using buildings that have been there since WW2 which are barely maintained that should be condemned because of how hazardous they are to be in but they're just going to wait for someone to die or a building to fall apart before they change anything.

Modest? You are either deliberately talking out of your ass or woefully ignorant. The event you are talking about is hurricane Michael hitting the Florida coast & Tyndall Air Force base as a Cat 5, with winds recorded up to 162 mph.

@@magneric Governments going with the lowest bidder to "save taxpayer money" is definitely a real problem, but I am under the impression that the Florida incident was more of an engineering snafu than a problem with the contractor(s). I don't really blame contractors for charging the government more than they would private industry, though. The paperwork associated with a government construction project is horrendous, so I assume the overhead for a contractor is higher than usual. It's also really hard to sue the federal government, so higher profit margins to compensate for higher risk of getting f***ed over by their customer is probably reasonable. I'm under the impression that newbie contractors who bid their first government job like it's a private job often end up getting milked by the government because they don't know what they're getting into. Still, the whole ecosystem attracts contractors who are good at navigating government contracts, not necessarily at building things. I'm not sure if there's really a way to fix this, or if inefficiencies are inevitable in an organization as large and complex as the federal government trying to maintain continuity of operations instead of trying to make a profit and exit or just generate externalities like a lot of megacorporations do. Not that the federal government doesn't have externalities. I just know that maintaining systems sucks in the modern era, with techology changing as fast as it does. By the time everyone learns the new way of doing things, it's already outdated.

You must be a high windload area i call that type of bracing as a fortress door

With handles 😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣. We call them wound, with winding bars........

I work for raynor garage doors and sometimes it goes further than just red screws, we have actual hardware components that are powder coated red. Always remember red means dead......

the R-Value on this door is 12.7 for 1 3/8'" or 17.9 for 2". The glass panels would have to be 1/2 dual glaze to have an R-Value of about 2.5. Depending on glass options this can be very expensive.

@@shredmonster76 That garage door in video is R-0, it is not insulated

Modern problems take modern solutions

You got money?

dont answer that

Ask your local lumber yard, realtors etc etc

The garage isn't part of the enveloped living space. And you absolutely want to avoid it to become part of it because of the exhaust of the cars.

This door is insulated. Steel interior and exterior skins with insulation between the two. Depending on section thickness, I would guess this to be around r18 with thermal wind breaks between each section of the door.

Yep. Teef r gonerz

Your house is made with a thousand different products too, he just paid less than you (and his house is WAY better built).

Jealousy is a useless emotion. Whether he gets products for free, or at cost does it matter. He is taking the time to educate the public through his own hands on experience.

@@christhomas953 Then stop being jealous, what do you want me to do about it. Move on kid. Truth upset you that bad?

I like his honesty he's honest about his sponsorships and encourages you to do your own research.

@@alexlewis8143 Legally he has to. A few videos back he was sponsored by a company that clearly isn't the best and is the cheap way to do it and the comments were full of people calling him a sellout. Just found it funny his garage door is sponsored

Benefit 1: I can walk through one door and be in my house Benefit 2: don’t care, 1 is enough when financials are close

@@qwerty112311 Also, many lots are too small for detached garage

@@qwerty112311 The same way thieves get in.

He gets his knowledge from sponsors and Google/RU-vid. Majority of what he talks about is straight from the manufacturers handbooks.