doorLink Manufacturing

doorLink garage doors give homeowners replacing a door a choice of raised-panel, recessed-panel and carriage-house looks, with insulated options in each. You can match the house without giving up insulation. Settle the panel pattern and window layout together, then compare the construction.

doorLink Manufacturing, Inc. makes residential and commercial garage doors. Its residential range includes raised-panel and recessed-panel steel doors. Carriage Creek adds carriage-house styling with a composite overlay.

Match the panels to the house

Follow the trim and lines already on your house. The raised-panel line has a pronounced panel shape and deep woodgrain texture. The short recessed-panel line gives you a different pattern with a deep pebble-grain texture. Both use 24-gauge steel. The raised-ranch line offers another raised-panel pattern with deep woodgrain texture and 25-gauge steel.

Carriage Creek puts a composite overlay over an insulated steel door. Choose it when the carriage-house look is part of the house’s design. Its overlay boards come primed white.

You can place doorLink doors, colors and window options on a photograph to judge the whole elevation. Include the surrounding trim in that view. Displayed colors can vary from the actual product, so use an actual finish sample for the color decision.

Choose insulation for how you use the garage

The raised-panel, raised-ranch and short recessed-panel families each include a model with vinyl-backed expanded-polystyrene insulation as standard. You can keep the panel look you want and choose the insulated model within that family.

Carriage Creek sandwiches polystyrene insulation between steel panels. The steel interior is a useful difference if the finish inside the garage matters to you. Its stated R-value is higher than the values listed for the other lines below. If you heat the garage, weigh that difference alongside the fit and seals around the opening.

Plan windows with the door style

Window plans narrow your style choices. Several Carriage Creek designs are solid-door designs, identified in the table below. If you want daylight, make the window layout part of choosing the style.

The short recessed-panel line and Carriage Creek reserve 18-inch sections for solid panels. Glazing choices also vary by distributor. Settle the section layout and glazing choice together.

Some window inserts on those two lines sit out of alignment with the stamped panel design. Picking an insert by itself makes that mismatch easy to miss. Compare the insert and panel pattern in the same view.

Under the residential warranty, labor, shipping, paint, painting and other building-material costs remain your responsibility. Keep those costs in the budget even when a defective component qualifies for repair or replacement.

Specifications by line

Line	Models	Steel construction	Insulation	Stated line R-value
Raised panel	410/411	24-gauge steel	Vinyl-backed expanded polystyrene standard on Model 411	6.85
Short recessed panel	420/421	24-gauge steel	Vinyl-backed expanded polystyrene standard on Model 421	6.85
Raised ranch	590/591	25-gauge steel	Vinyl-backed expanded polystyrene standard on Model 591	6.85
Carriage Creek	Carriage Creek	Nominal 24-gauge steel exterior; 26-gauge steel interior; composite overlay	Polystyrene pressure-bonded between steel panels	10.25

Line or design	Window restriction
Carriage Creek Style 1 Arch, Style 2 Arch, Style 7 and Style 8	Solid-door designs only
Short recessed panel 420/421	18-inch sections are solid only
Carriage Creek	18-inch sections are solid only

Frequently Asked Questions

Are doorLink garage doors insulated?

doorLink offers insulated options in the raised-panel, recessed-panel and raised-ranch families, while Carriage Creek has polystyrene insulation sandwiched between steel panels. The first three lines list an R-value of 6.85; Carriage Creek lists 10.25. Those figures aren’t identified as whole-door ratings, so they don’t tell you how much heat you’ll lose around the opening.

What does the doorLink garage door warranty cover?

For a single-family home you own and live in, doorLink’s residential warranty lasts as long as the original purchaser owns the home and covers door-section defects in materials and workmanship, plus rust-through. Rust-through means metal perforation, so surface rust alone isn’t the same thing. Window components have three years of coverage, and normal-wear weatherstripping is excluded.

Can you replace the bottom seal on a doorLink garage door?

Yes. The raised-panel, recessed-panel, raised-ranch and Carriage Creek lines use a rigid aluminum retainer that holds replaceable U-type bottom weatherstripping. You can replace that wear item without replacing the door section.

Can you get windows in a doorLink garage door?

Windows are an option, but the door style and section layout limit where they can go. Some Carriage Creek styles have no window option, and neither Carriage Creek nor the short recessed-panel line offers glazing in 18-inch sections. You also need to judge the insert against the panel pattern because some inserts don’t line up with the stamped design.