Single 8×7 steel
$1,290installed
- 25-gauge skin, three factory colours
- R-9 insulated core in the box
- 20,000-cycle spring pair, weighed & wound
- Old door hauled away, same truck
- Balance-test sign-off before we leave
Double 16×7 steel
$2,190installed
- Two-inch thick, R-12 core standard
- Nylon rollers, sealed bearings
- Belt-drive opener option at the board price
- 20,000-cycle pair; 50,000 upgrade $122
- Both springs replaced, always as a pair
- One crew, one morning, done by lunch
Carriage overlay
$3,450installed
- Five-section stamping, faux strap hinges
- Painted to your trim from a daylight match
- R-16 insulated core
- Battery-backup opener fitted standard
- Saturday same as the rest — no up-charge for pretty
How five days become one morning
The week that ends on Saturday
The same five moves every week, which is why the Saturday date holds: nothing about your door is being decided while you wait for it.
Tuesday — the measure call
Forty minutes at your opening with a tape and a level: width, height, headroom, side room, and the one question that sizes the opener — does anything with a bedroom share this wall?
Wednesday — the fixed number
One page: the door off the board, the core, the springs, the drive, the disposal. You sign it or you do not, and the number on it never moves after.
Friday — the truck is loaded
Your door, your springs, your hardware bin and your opener ride the Friday load-out together. A missing part is discovered at our dock, never at your driveway.
Saturday, 8 a.m. — the hang
Old door out and gone, track and drums into the studs, the pair wound to the door’s weighed pounds, photo-eyes proven with a two-by-four while you hold the coffee.
Before lunch — the balance test
Opener off, door to waist height: it holds like a curtain on a rod. You lift it yourself, you sign the card, and the weekend is still intact.
Added at the board, never at the driveway
The extras card — small decisions, printed prices
Everything a Flats garage argues for, priced the way the doors are: on the card before the truck loads, not discovered on an invoice after it leaves.
Belt-drive opener, installed & programmed$549
The quiet one — under sixty decibels, for every garage that shares a wall or ceiling with a bedroom
Chain-drive opener, installed & programmed$399
The tough one — louder, cheaper, right for detached garages and heavy doors
Battery backup module$129
Twenty open-close cycles when the street loses power · code-required on new openers in much of the country anyway
Spring pair upgrade, 20k to 50k cycles+$122
For households that open the door more than the front door — the math pays inside four years
Insulated core upgrade, R-9 to R-16+$240
The difference a room above the garage can feel through the ceiling
Old door haul-away & recycle$0
Steel skins to the scrap stream, never the landfill — same truck that arrived with your new one
THE STOCK BOARD CHANGES FRIDAY AT FIVE — whatever is on it Saturday morning is what can hang Saturday morning. Call (555) 077-2246 or check the form reply before you clear the garage.
Four hundred hangs and counting
Saturdays, photographed by lunch
Six mornings from the board — every one out at eight, balanced before noon, old door gone in the same truck.
Why Saturday exists
One week, because a week is what it takes
Every door company in the county can sell you a door; the wait is the product nobody prints. Saturday Door Co. was built backwards from the morning of the hang: forty doors on the board because forty is what one crew can measure Tuesday and hang by Saturday; one truck loaded Friday because a Saturday truck that arrives incomplete is a Monday company wearing a weekend sign. The board is not a slogan — it is the inventory list the whole week is scheduled around, and the stock answer to “when could you actually do it?” is a date, not a season.
Saturday or a hundred off
If the door on your signed sheet is not hanging by the Saturday we named — weather closing the roads excepted — the invoice drops a hundred dollars before you see it. No call, no claim: the discount prints itself, because a date is only a promise if it costs something to miss.
Since the first board, 2019
The Saturday record
We closed on the house on a Thursday and had a functioning garage the Saturday after. The number they quoted on Wednesday — board door, 50k pair, belt drive, haul-away — was the number on the invoice to the dollar. I keep the signed card in the kitchen drawer because nobody believes the timeline otherwise.
Three quotes, three seasons of waiting — then this outfit measured on a Tuesday and hung it Saturday morning while my husband was still insisting the old door was fine. They handed me the balance test to do myself. It held at waist height like they said it would, and I signed the card still holding my coffee.
The ice storm took the power for two days in February and the garage opened every time — the battery module was a one-line upsell on the Wednesday sheet, fitted Saturday, and the only reason my wife made her early shifts that week. A hundred and twenty-nine dollars. Cheapest contingency plan I own.
The five from the board
Asked at the counter, answered here
What if my opening is not a stock size?
Then it joins the measure list instead of the board — custom doors run three to four weeks, and we will say so on the Tuesday call rather than sell you a Saturday we cannot hang. Most Flats openings are stock; the survey exists to prove yours is before you plan the weekend around it.
Belt or chain — which do I actually need?
Belt if anything living shares the wall or ceiling: it runs under sixty decibels, which is a conversation, not a machine. Chain if the garage stands alone and the door is heavy — tougher, cheaper, and nobody is sleeping above it. Both are on the card, and we quote them side by side with the floor plan deciding.
What happens if it storms on the Saturday?
Weather closing the roads is the one printed exception — the hang moves to the next dry morning and you are told before Friday load-out. The hundred-off promise does not fire on acts of sky, only on acts of us, which is the honest line a guarantee should draw.
Do you take the old door away?
Always, in the same truck, at no charge: steel skins to the scrap stream, hardware sorted, nothing to the landfill. The Saturday morning ends with a working door and an empty garage, not a week of panels leaned against the fence.
Why only forty doors on the board?
Because forty is what one crew can measure, load and hang inside one week at the standard we print. A bigger board means a longer week means the Saturday promise quietly becomes a slogan. When the board sells out, it sells out — the next one is seven days away by definition.
The board is at the counter on Bellamy Street and on the phone at (555) 077-2246 · boards@saturdaydoor.example · measure calls run Tuesday to Thursday
Pick your Saturday
Opening size, one photo, and whether a bedroom shares the wall — that is the whole measure call, and the Tuesday slots for next week are on the board now. boards@saturdaydoor.example