We finally have our recycled garage door installed, after many false starts. Mike, the garage door specialist, was very reluctant to attempt this installation. To his great surprise, it went very well and the old springs worked and balanced perfectly.
The reason that the bottom panel is not painted is because it was formerly a top panel in its previous life. The good man who recycled his two garage doors just took the best panels to make one good door. The bottom panel is always the one that takes the worst weathering, so we had to turn his second top panel upside down and inside out to make the new bottom panel.
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Well that’s reusing, not recycling. It’s an even better ‘R’!
I am jealous. I have been a saver and re-user (see Raff’s comment) and recycling has been one of my passions. But you have made it an art on a very large and ambitious project which will surely wield a good influence on the construction of free standing homes and the greening of our suffering environment. Wow!