CUSTOM CLADDING

Heart of Los Angeles (HOLA) is dedicated to providing after-school programs to over 2,100 underserved LA youth ages 6-24. HOLA has recently expanded its offerings with a new 25,000-square-foot Arts and Recreation Center (ARC) designed by Berliner Architects.

HOLA's new ARC building, the “Clubhouse,” will expand its former reach to serve 600 students daily and 4,000 anticipated participants. The project uses shipping containers as its main building blocks, which allows for easy future changes. Container walls can be removed to connect rooms and combine spaces to form larger areas.

One of the ARC's main features is a massive 54-foot-wide by 14-foot-high Schweiss hangar door, affectionately called “Big Door.” The hangar door's unique design and flexibility also allow the Clubhouse to transform from a closed, intimate setting to an expansive, open-air venue.

The Big Door opens the ground-floor performance pavilion to the park and provides a dynamic and functional space for concerts and community events. This versatility is essential for HOLA's dynamic activities, from more clubhouse-style after-school programs to more open community gatherings.

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The JPMorganChase 60-story skyscraper headquarters is a stylish modern wonder in the heart of New York City. Designed by Foster + Partners, the tower's unique podium-finish shape offers highly sought-after rooftop spaces to the New York City skyline. It also provides convenient openings for aerial drones, window washing platforms, and other outdoor amenities.

The sustainable tower is covered in triple-glazed panels that integrate with glare-control blinds and HVAC systems for greater energy efficiency. Custom-clad Schweiss bifold and hydraulic doors blend seamlessly with the tower's modern look and feel and offer reliable entry and exit points to the tower's higher floors.

The Schweiss hidden hangar doors ensure smooth and easy-to-use operations. The tower's bifold designer doors are only one of many refreshing features of its flexible design focused on health, wellness, and hospitality, giving employees, clients, and visitors many reasons to come and stay.

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Bifold and Hydraulic Doors

With over 40 years of home and building design experience, Greg Webb, owner of Webb Builders in Norwell, Massachusetts, knew exactly what he wanted when building a barn for his large boats and equipment for other hobbies such as skiing, golf and physical fitness.

Nestled among a grove of trees in eastern Massachusetts, the 50-foot by 40-foot boat barn is clad in natural cedar shakes with a stone wainscot, featuring a sleek roof of black sheet metal accented with green fascia. The craftsman style roof cupola, complete with windows, harkens back to the lighthouses that dot the eastern coast of the country. The rustic design of the boat barn fits perfectly in the natural surroundings as sunlight filters through the trees.

Strategically placed lights in the roof line of Webb's boat barn spotlight one of the main features of the building, the 15-feet wide and 14-feet tall Schweiss bifold door. Clad in red cedar, the door not only stands out as the center piece of the building, but also fits the overall design aesthetic of the barn.

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Bifold Doors

On the long strip of the Dorado estates, you will find a home with many eye-catching features. The most striking feature among one of the homes is the trio of seamless Schweiss bifold garage doors.

Installed by the local company Electromatic of PR, these three all-strap bifold doors were affixed securely onto the newly constructed concrete structure, ensuring their durability and stability. With such sturdy construction, the bifold doors are able to withstand the force of hurricane weather, providing reliable protection against the elements.

Two of the three overhead garage doors span a width of 8 feet and stand 7 feet tall, and the central bifold door, measuring an impressive 18 feet wide and 7 feet in height, is what truly commands attention.

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Puerto Rico Residence

Near the Ohio border, Brad and Jenny are the proud owners of two exceptional buildings: a five-sided hangar and a newly constructed home which both proudly feature Schweiss Doors.

A few years after installing the Schweiss bifold doors on his hangar, Brad and Jenny began the process of designing and constructing a new home overlooking the Ohio River. Brad knew Schweiss Doors would be the perfect choice. Brad chose to go with a hydraulic garage door, which is positioned at the front of the newly constructed home.

The door measures 27 feet wide by 8 feet high with no internal or external trusses on the lower edges of the door for a very clean architectural look. The door is also equipped with a battery backup, allowing it to operate during a power outage with the push of a button.

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Brad Mottier Home

From 1948 to Today, Dolphin Place Mixes Classic and New Styles. Welcome to the one-of-a-kind Dolphin Place, a house designed by Architects Magnus and hidden by two big Hollywood Juniper trees in La Jolla, California. This house was built in 1948 and was once owned by the client's grandmother. It holds many happy childhood memories.

The home has huge glass doors open up to a private courtyard. The grandchildren turned the garage into “the cube,” a cool hang-out spot for lounging. The large Schweiss hydraulic door opens for indoor/outdoor fun and is filled with light, making it feel bigger and more welcoming.

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Hydraulic Doors

Row, row, row your boat, all the way to Hamilton College's new Boathouse located on the Erie Canal in Rome's Bellamy Harbor Park. The one-story, rectangular wood-framed structure with a footprint of approximately 3,600 square feet was equipped with a 28' x 11' Schweiss Bifold Door. The nationally recognized rowing team now has a place they can truly call home.

The superstructure is supported by glue-laminated wood frames with a wood roof deck and wood-framed shear walls. The new storage facility includes an area for boat and oar storage, office, bathrooms, tool storage, meeting room, and an operations area.

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Bifold Doors

Art Meets Architecture at the Kramlich Collection in Napa Valley, California. It has become a choice destination for those who appreciate art and architecture. It's even more impressive in person, with spaces allowing flexibility in hosting art installations or performances. The Kramlich Collection is known for its modern architecture. Designed by Jacques Herzog and Pierre de Meuron, the Swiss architects' vision was to create a unified interior and exterior experience by creating transitions between them through materials, textures, and lighting that flow smoothly between the different spaces.

The two hydraulic doors are clad with translucent panels inside and light-emitting expanded aluminum on the outside. The large hydraulic doors close with a gentle airtight locking sound, creating a barrier between the outside world and the private inner sanctum, lending an air of privacy and intrigue to the experience for all who enter.

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Home of Art

Macanda Mexican Restaurant, nestled along the picturesque shores of Lake Minnetonka, ingeniously incorporated two 12'x4' hydraulic doors to partition the main dining area form their vibrant “HiFi Room” music bar and social space. These sleek, modern doors not only add a touch of contemporary elegance but also enhance the flexibility of the restaurant's layout, effortlessly transforming the ambiance from a cozy dining atmosphere to a lively social gathering spot.

With the doors in place, patrons can enjoy the serene lake views and dining experience in one moment, then seamlessly transition to the pulsating rhythms and energetic atmosphere of the HiFi Room in the next, creating a dynamic and multifaceted dining destination unlike any other along the lake's shore.

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Hydraulic Doors

This unique steel bifold door storefront in Brooklyn adds a touch of class and security. Hugging the southwest corner of Long Island, New York, Brooklyn's earlier identity was mostly hitched to Coney Island Beach and the Brooklyn Dodgers of baseball immortality. Today the city is enjoying a renaissance of rediscovery by artists, retailers, ambitious contractors, and creative landscapers; including the Andre Kikoski Architect firm which just wrapped up the complete renovation of two empty abandoned warehouse buildings on 22-28 Wyckoff Ave.

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NY Security Storefront

With the decorative star and patriotic blue front it has all the looks of a hangar home that you might think was owned by Captain America. Jim Weitman, of Sherwood, Oregon, and his wife, Star, live on a private grass airstrip just outside of North Plains, Oregon. The hangar portion of the home measures 40' x 40'.

The Schweiss bifold liftstrap door on the hangar has a clear opening width of 38' and 9' 8.75" in height. It is also equipped with automatic latches, electric photo eye sensors and a remote opener. The blue polycarbonate cladding really brightens up the exterior of the door.

With the exterior enhancements, including a new roof, cedar siding and a colored concrete apron, they really wanted to replace the old style twin 20' metal garage hangar doors with something that really stood out and complemented their lifestyle.

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Oregon Star Hangar

It's been said that ideas are the source of innovation. They propel us forward, fueling new insights and breakthroughs. Capitol Hill's historic auto row; home of Pike Motorworks is the next chapter of renaissance, offering über-luxurious apartments and unrivaled amenities.

Adding to the historic look of this building are two custom-made decorative Schweiss bifold liftstrap designer doors; one of which is 11' 10" x 11' 11" and another at 11' 1" x 10' 1". Instead of the conventional metal, glass or wood exterior cladding, these doors have a decorative steel exterior 12 gauge steel cladding that blends in very nicely with the exterior brick of the apartment building.

They wanted the architectural feel and look of a fence and at the same time they wanted to keep the building appeal. The doors, located on each side of the building, provide a pedestrian walk-through atrium between buildings and can be closed in the evening.

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Pike Motorworks Apartments

Donna and Greg decided to have their new country home built with two Schweiss hydraulic designer doors; one on a 3,000 sq. ft. garage/barn and the other placed on the basement party room of the home. The doors are 29.7' x 9.7' and 20' x 9.4', both equipped with photo eye sensors and remote opening systems. The exterior of the door is clad in 24 gauge metal panels and the interior of the basement door is handsomely clad with Vertical Douglas Fir.

“We like the shade that the hydraulic doors create when opened; the shade is huge - they just make sense in the south where we look for ways to stay out of the sun. For our party room, when you open the door up you've just added a covered porch to it. That's really wonderful,” said Donna. “I can't imagine any ordinary garage doors on where they went. I like how massive they look; they bring a presence you can't get with a regular garage door.”

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Metal Panel Garage Door

Nothing says summer like tacos and tequila. Chicago's newest sprawling Federales Tequila & Tacos restaurant and bar in the West loop of Chicago is a great neighborhood bar with incredible food.

Federales vacation atmosphere features a fully retractable roof and two Schweiss bifold liftstrap 14' 3" x 14' 8" designer doors that open to their beer garden.

They like the look and feel of the doors, as well as how open the space feels when they are in use, not to mention the 154 additional seats in the Tequila Garden. They open them when it's warm enough to have outdoor dining and drinking.

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Federales Restaurant

The Surf Club in Surfside, FL used fancy metal clad doors as security gates for their parking garage. Perfection Architectural out of Florida installed the five Strap-Lift Doors. There are many ways to uniquely clad bifold doors to add style to your new construction project.

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Bifold Doors

There's no hiding this 37' x 10' Schweiss engineered hydraulic designer door that was recently installed in an extensive Boulder, Colorado commercial remodel project. The radiant multi-colored glass exterior cladding on it certainly gives it a one-of-a-kind standout appearance.

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Colorful Glass Hydraulic Door

Schweiss bifold and hydraulic doors have been known to have exterior cladding utilizing many materials from decorative wood, glass, stucco, brick and much more. One that really stands out is the aluminum plank cladding that was put on a 38' 1" x 15' bifold liftstrap door in use at the South College Academic Facility at the University of Massachusetts in Amherst

The aluminum plank-clad 38' x 15' Schweiss bifold liftstrap door is being used on a new steel building. This very attractive designer door has electric photo eyes, black liftstraps, automatic latching system and a door base safety edge. The interior of the door is clad with corrugated aluminum siding.

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Hydraulic Doors

The Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA) in Boston has added a new expansion of its artistic programming across Boston Harbor to the East Boston Shipyard and Marina. It presents artwork and public programs in a newly renovated 15,000 square-foot former copper pipe and sheet metal factory.

Convenient for this purpose were two very unique Schweiss bifold designer doors positioned at opposite ends of the building. The doors are each 15.9' wide by 19' tall. The bifold doors in this project are unique in that the top half of the doors is emblazoned with the ICA Watershed logo which overlaps the bottom half and still remains visible with the door partially opened. Translucent polycarbonate cladding also gives the door a glow allowing colors and light from inside the Watershed to show through.

“The doors were big with very robust frames, that's why we chose Schweiss.” said Nick Winton of the architectural firm of Anmahian Winton Architects. “We wanted to use a lightweight cladding material that was inexpensive and handled daylight well.”

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ICA Water Shed

Gene and Carol Buboltz are the owners of this residential 4' x 6-1/2" x 6'7" custom “One-Piece®” Hydraulic Door which is located on the back side of their lake home. This custom, classy wall-door is unnoticeable when closed while the outside door trim matches a seamless finish to the house's exterior. This makes a nice hidden entrance to their basement for whatever possibilities they wish to use it for. When garage space is limited; such an opening to a basement makes it possible for storing lawnmowers, ATV's, jet-skis, and plenty of other common equipment. One of the greatest qualities of the door is the remote controlled handicap accessibility.

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Buboltz Basement Door

The Louisiana Sports Hall of Fame opened its doors with a grand red carpet reception attended by throngs of inductees and sports fans in 2013. The beautiful 27,500 square foot museum is located downtown in the Historic District of Natchitoches.

Two Schweiss custom-made aluminum-framed one piece hydraulic doors, each measuring 15' wide x 11' tall, were made especially for this project. The architects called for a custom fabricated flat hinge design with pleated copper panels that control light. This was in order for the doors to blend into the wall, making it look like there actually wasn't a door there when in the closed position. The exterior doors are opened to bring exhibits in and out of the museum. An emergency battery system was also added to the order in case there would be a power outage.

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LA. Sports Hall of Fame

Schweiss boathouse doors have a reputation of showing up at some of the most beautiful lakes in America, but perhaps the most beautiful of them all is the 989' deep Lake Tahoe which borders Nevada and California.

A new 40' x 30' steel building was erected for the South Tahoe stand up paddle rental business. It is also where a custom made Schweiss 32' 11.5" x 10' 11.25" bifold liftstrap door with electric photo eye sensors opens up the building for business. The exterior cladding on the door consists of stained 2 x 6's spaced apart to allow for airflow into the storage area when the door is closed. Since the City of South Lake Tahoe initiated its Phase 1 redevelopment project, the area has drawn more tourists and there are a lot of other special events that take place to bring people in.

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Lake Tahoe Boathouse

The design of the vineyard shop embraces the partnership of Opus One and Chateau Mouton Rothschild, by taking the concept of the centuries-old courtyard stables of Bordeaux and merging it with modern materials. So how does Schweiss Doors fit into the picture of buildings that literally rise out of the earth through a mix of classical European and contemporary Californian elements?

Schweiss supplied eight bi-fold and hydraulic doors made of perforated stainless steel used for the rain screens around the washing/fueling area, clerestory windows and exhaust fans. The extended eaves and rainscreen function as an effective shading system to minimize heat gain and provide a comfortable work environment. The benchmark architectural design makes it look like a solid sheeted wall, which doesn't appear to look like a door system.

The architect was given the “Award of Excellence Building” accolades for its work on Opus One by Metal Construction News.

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Opus One Winery

When JT Strange of Goshen, Ohio built his new airpark hangar he called on Schweiss Doors for a bifold liftstrap door. The hangar has a big 45' x 15' 11" door for his Cessna 182T. Four liftstraps easily lift the bifold door. Interior sheeting gives the door a nice clean look. The cladding on the door is unique in that he wanted it to have a completely different look beyond the typical look of an airport hangar door.

By mounting the sheeting horizontally he was able to have the top corrugated panel of the bifold door overlap the lower panel. When you look closely at it, the two-inch pattern appears to be seamless with no joint in the middle and looks more like a single panel hydraulic door.

Another feature that sets it off from other bifold doors is the door is inset about two feet instead of installed on the face of the building. Using the specifications from Schweiss he was able to get wedge height and other information to obtain the highest clearance possible.

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JT Strange Hangar

Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (Fermilab), located in Batavia, Illinois, 40 miles west of Chicago, is a U.S. Department of Energy national laboratory specializing in high-energy particle physics.

As part of the Short Baseline Neutrino (SBN) program at Fermilab a 20.10' x 23.9' bifold liftstrap door was installed in the new 4,500 sq. ft. SBN Near Detector Building.

The door features gray liftstraps, electric photo eye sensors, warning lights and horns, a top-drive motor, automatic latching system and an emergency back-up system. The door is clad with glass on the bottom quarter and high performance light transmitting Kalwall® panels covering the top three-quarters of the door, both to identically match the adjacent east wall of the building.

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Fermilab

North Star Imaging, Inc., a Rogers, Minnesota manufacturer of industrial x-ray systems came to Schweiss for a 40' wide lead-lined door that would be put on a large booth used for x-ray inspections of long metal component products to find minute imperfections in the metal or welds.

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North Star Imaging

This beautiful double garage in Los Altos, California has two Schweiss bifold liftstrap doors. The 11' x 7.5' wood clad doors are equipped with automatic latches and photo eye sensors.

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Bifold Doors

Jim St. George has a very impressive hangar located at the Lake Hood Seaplane Base in Anchorage, Alaska.

The hangar has two hydraulic doors; 65' x 18.7' and 40' x 18.7' and one bifold 40' x 18' that was converted to liftstraps. The radiant heat hangar has LED lighting and all three bays within the 14,000 sq. ft. hangar are accessible to a 5-ton or 1-ton overhead crane. Uniquely designed tilted “L” shaped windows add natural light and give a distinct look to the hangar.

Hangared inside is Jim's 180 Cessna equipped with floats and ski's for all year-round use. The other two hangar bays are leased out to other pilots.

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Lake Hood Seaplane Base

The American Institute of Architects went with a Bifold Door for their new office head-quarters in downtown Atlanta, Georgia. The bifold door fit the room perfectly and also met the Designer's precise requirements for a “flexible space.”

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AIA Atlanta

The Carriage House on the lakeshore property of Sid Morris, Cornelius, NC is very likely the most unique in America! It doesn't house horses and horse buggies. It doesn't house antique autos. Instead it houses his R44 helicopter, and that chopper gets to the Carriage House by first landing on a helipad on the end of his 200' dock. A small electrically driven dolly then gently lifts the chopper with operator and guides the chopper to its proper stall inside this remarkable 4-star carriage house.

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Carriage House

Schweiss Doors in Fairfax, Minnesota was called upon by the architectural firm of Muller+Muller, Ltd. of Chicago which excels in architecture, planning and interior designs to provide four Designer Bifold Doors on the stage building and at a concession stand below the guest services building.

The designer style Schweiss Bifold Doors have an exterior cladding of cedar slats 3 1/2" x 3/4," with spaces between them. Extra steel was added at the Schweiss factory for extra support. Pressure treated wood was also added to screw the cedar slats to.

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Riveredge Park

Situated at the base of the Kicking Horse Mountain Resort in the Canadian Rocky Mountains in British Columbia, this 3,500-square-foot residence is a gathering place for an active family of five. The clients desired a space that would provide a direct connection to the landscape for seasonal recreation and the flexibility to accommodate larger groups of family and friends.

On the garage is a Schweiss one-piece hydraulic designer door clad in Clear Heart Western Red Cedar. The custom-made 20 ft. 8.5" x 8.1 ft. door has electric photo eye sensors, a door base safety edge and remote opener. “From an architectural perspective it's fantastic. We really like the product, the appearance of it and the way it can be integrated seamlessly with the exterior materials of the house,” noted Architect Ray Calabro.

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Kicking Horse Ski Resort

“Crazy Cool” bifold door sidesteps zoning restriction for unique motorhome garage!

Now you see it, now you don't. Herb Korthuis of Lynden, Washington needed to find a way to be able to garage his 45 ft. motorhome, but a local zoning ordinance prevented him from building a garage with a door higher than 8 feet. It was Schweiss to the rescue with a 16 ft. x 12 ft. bifold liftstrap door, which when in the closed position gives the visual of an 8 ft. door.

Korthuis had a contractor attach a conventional garage door front with windows to the bottom half of the Schweiss doorframe and finished off the top with siding that exactly matched his new home. In the closed position you can just barely see the seams on the door sides. It alleviated the building inspector's concerns.

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Korthuis RV Garage

When Belgian Airforce military personnel at Aerodrome Beauvechain needed reliable doors for their new helicopter hangars they went with the quality bifold straplift door offered by Schweiss Doors. The hangars required the door motors and limit boxes to be weatherproofed due to the fact they were largely clad in mesh for ventilation.

The custom-made doors were all 64.3 ft. wide x 23.8 ft. high and upgraded to 47 mph wind speed and 4,188 lb. cladding load. In addition to that, the straplift bifold doors were fitted with autolatches, strap tension sensors, top overrides, photo eye sensors, bottom safety edges and internal and external beacon/sounders.

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Belgium Military Hangar

How do you make the loading dock area for your store secure, yet still easily accessible and stylish? This target store in North Carolina found the answer with two 39' x 17' bifold gates for their loading area. Give us your idea and we will get you the door.

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Target Security Gates

Schweiss builds easy access hydraulic container doors. Schweiss Doors now specializes in customizing containers to accept hydraulic doors to open up the entire side and/or both ends for easy access. In addition to these doors, Schweiss can also build an attached lifting exterior deck on your container that will lift up or down at the touch of a button.

Schweiss storage containers are perfect for a number of uses such as secure mobile offices, portable sheds, workshops, hunting shacks, food stands, etc.

At the top of each container door cylinder is a motor rated to lift 5,000 lbs. The DC drive utilizes 110 Volt AC power. Where there is no access to electricity, the door can be manually run with a cordless drill or generator setup. Doors are constructed with 2"x2" strong steel tubing. Containers can be custom-built and finished off to your liking.

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Container Doors

Getting 150 doors installed at one location speaks rather strongly about the quality and reliability of your door provider. But that's the current scorecard of Schweiss Bifold Liftstrap doors at Fort Carson, Colorado in Colorado Springs where the U.S. Army special heated maintenance shops called TEMFs (Tactical Equipment Maintenance Facilities) required strong doors for structures big enough for Army tanks and other special military tactical vehicles.

That meant special translucent paneling with enough strength to withstand the ‘blast load’ criteria that is part of the terrorist attack prevention now standard procedure at any military installation. This means heavier doors with bigger load requirements than would be used in a typical commercial environment. Special windows were also installed in several of these bifolds.

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Fort Carson

This premier Schweiss hangar home door, better described as a hydraulic moving porch, has been featured on many television shows because of its unique design. The one-piece door was built and designed by Schweiss Doors. When strong Schweiss cylinders open this big door, it lifts an entire patio deck with it. It also has a walk-through door with a stylish window. Schweiss engineering specs called for a 120 mph wind endurance criteria. Schweiss specialty doors and designer doors are being requested often and nobody makes them better than Schweiss Doors.

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Moving Porch Door

Located at the Dallas Galleria, a mall located in Dallas, Texas is a 15' wide by 11' tall custom-designed door made exclusively for Old Navy retail stores. These doors allow Old Navy storefronts in malls to stand out as modern designs rather than the typical mall security doors. The aluminum frame, vinyl mesh and blue-tinted glass adapt with Old Navy's branding identity which helps customers easily identify these stores without reading the store signage alone.

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Bifold Doors

Most people who order Schweiss Bifold or Hydraulic doors try to match the door sheeting and color with the building or hangar sheeting, but there are many other cladding substitutes used. Decorative door covering can be done in stucco, cedar, total glass, translucent panels, decorative wood, vinyl siding, rock face or using decorative windows to mention a few.

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Custom Cladding

A lot of planning goes into new home construction. Tom Struthers of Winnipeg, Canada extended his attention to detail right down to his garages. The Schweiss Bifold liftstrap garage doors have an enhanced appearance utilizing a vertical pine wood exterior to highlight each of his three doors.

His three garages all have Schweiss bifold liftstrap doors on them with photo eye sensors, multi-channel remotes and automatic latching systems. The largest of the bifold garage doors is 10' x 10' and the other two are each 8' x 8'. Attractive exterior vertical pine tongue and groove cladding on all the doors really gives them an appealing appearance.

Struthers is an old British car aficionado. Among his collection are four Triumphs dating from 1960 to 1981; a 1953 Jaguar XK120, a 1953 Austin Healey BNI and an Austin Healey BN1 Coronet

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Struthers' Garage Doors

As a 30-year career pilot working in the Captain's seat for Continental and United Airlines, Kirk Simonds has walked away from many successful landings. Now retired, he decided to do a complete remodel from the slab up of his garage that included a Schweiss 18' x 7' bifold liftstrap door. The door is equipped with an automatic latch system, remote opener and Simonds can use his backup generator to open or close the door in case of a power outage.

The door was installed in the nick of time before Category 4 Hurricane Harvey started on its $200 billion wave of destruction when the eye of the hurricane passed over nearby Rockport and Houston. It rode out the high winds and water that had cars floating and streets flooded up to people's necks.

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Simonds Garage Door

This 1956 Greyhound Scenicruiser bus was hoisted up to the Bobby Hotel rooftop in Nashville. Two Schweiss hydraulic doors open up the side and back of the bus. It was totally renovated inside by Hemphill Brothers Coach Company.

A Schweiss dual-pump system with electric motors were placed 60 feet away inside the swimming pool mechanical room to operate the hydraulic cylinders on the 18' 6" x 8' side door and 8' x 9' rear bus door. The doors can be opened and closed with handheld remote openers.

Castlerock Asset Management, which undertook the adaptation, wanted “to create an immersive hotel that feels like the quintessential Nashville experience and mirrors musician's life on the road.”

“We wanted to create a unique experience on our rooftop different than any other hotel in Nashville,” noted Castlerock Vice President Ray Waters.

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Bobby Hotel Bus

The JD Ross Maintenance headquarters facility near Portland, Oregon is Bonneville Power Administration's (BPA) newest base for transmission line maintenance crews and engineers.

The Schweiss liftstrap drive-thru doors and building met Net Zero Energy criteria; meaning that on an annual basis, the project produces as much or more energy than it uses.

Eight of the 11 bifold doors are 27' x 16', one other is 23.4' x 16' and the remaining two are 12' x 16'.

Windows on the building and doors have double-glazed low E-Coating and were manufactured with a “bird-friendly” grid etched into the glass to prevent birds from colliding with the glass surfaces.

One reason Schweiss doors were chosen was so they could use whatever cladding they wanted on the doorframe and they wanted to have super-thick R-30 insulation. They also wanted doors that opened to the outside so they wouldn't interfere with the bridge crane or overhead infared hehating.

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BPA Maintenance Building

Crowne Architectural Systems Inc. out of New Jersey installed a 9' 6" x 15' hydraulic display window into this New York City Museum.

The custom installed - all metal window frames are clad with glass and powered by a hidden hydraulic pump to run the hydraulic cylinders.

The window has electric photo eye sensors and a door base safety edge.

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Hydraulic Doors

A typical garage door folds up and back when it is lifted, drastically reducing your garage's available headroom. A Schweiss door will not only free up lost headroom but improve the look of your garage.

A custom Schweiss garage door allows you total freedom with the look of your garage. You can apply siding to your door to match the garage and have custom shaped windows built into the door. For a Strong, long-lasting and totally unique look, go with a Schweiss door.

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Bifold Doors

The new Warren Harding High School in Bridgeport, Connecticut included a 34.8' x 26.11' Schweiss bifold liftstrap designer door. It has galvanized wind and side rails, a top-drive motor, electric photo eye sensors and a door base safety edge with black liftstraps.

The bifold door allows the stage to double as an amphitheater. Construction on the school earned it a LEED Silver Certification (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design).

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Warren Harding HS

Five Lift Strap Bifold Doors were installed at Bi-Rite Cafe, a coffee and ice cream shop kiosk on the sidewalk in front of the mayors office in San Francisco.

One main door stands at 49' wide x 10' tall. The others range from 8' wide to 17' wide x 10' tall.

The security gates/doors are positioned far enough away from the main counter to allow workers to stock and clean up even with the doors down.

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Bi-Rite Coffee Shop

What makes this garage stand out is what's in it and it's size. The 2,000 sq. ft. garage with a 17' ceiling is attached to a 2,000 sq. ft. one-bedroom custom guesthouse.

Two bifold/liftstrap doors are located at opposite ends of the garage. They are 18' wide by 10' with automatic latches, photo eye sensors and a door base safety edge. They chose a bifold door over a hydraulic door because Truckee gets about four feet of snow in the winter.

“We were concerned about the straps so we ran the door up and down a thousand times, it works great and the locking system (automatic latches) tightens it up real nice.”

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Bifold Doors

This privately-owned helicopter hangar in rural Purcellville, VA recently received first place 2017 Building of the Year award in the category of “Commercial Buildings under 5,000 sq. ft.” The owner, Chuck Kuhn and Fuog/InterBuild designed the post-frame barn-style hangar that really stands out with a Schweiss hydraulic one-piece 55' x 16' designer door. A Stronger lift system was incorporated for the additional 7,100 pounds of wood cladding on the door. The vaulted ceiling has 1 x 6 tongue and groove woodwork. A high loft with four windows brings maximum amount of daylight into the hangar.

Garland LaRue, Project Manager for Fuog/InterBuild, Inc. said he discovered Schweiss Doors for the first time through a Schweiss Door internet search and said the hangar owner loved the hydraulic door. “I think the quality of construction of the hydraulic door is wonderful. We definitely would use it again and recommend it to others. It was also easy to install, the shipping of it and customer service was great on all points, Brent and Jeremy at Schweiss were very helpful,” said LaRue.

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Hydraulic Doors

Wayne Braun, now retired in Houston, Texas, is more than satisfied with his 21' x 10' Schweiss bifold liftstrap door. “The door is hidden under the siding, matching the rest of the house. The door is designed as a ‘flush overlay door’ and gives very few clues as to its existence and how the door might work,” noted Braun. “The way the door is designed gives it the capacity to carry the weight of the siding on the face of it without me having to do anything else special to it.”

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Braun Garage Door

The owner of this cool bar/garage found another use for a Schweiss bifold door. The aluminum frame patio bifold door in Santa Cruz, California is equipped with an automatic latching system and has exterior keyed for easy opening. The cool looking strap door was clad in the same wood siding as the rest of the garage.

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Bifold Doors

The newest Solis Luxury Apartment complex in Seattle is the largest Passive House Certified multi-family building in all of Washington. The 45-unit complex has two ornate 12.10' x 15.7' Schweiss bifold liftstrap doors at the ground floor entrance leading into some shops within. The Passive House standards have better air and temperature control that is fresh filtered 12 times a day.
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Solis Luxury Apartment

This Florida hangar home has a unique door that opens all the way up.

Schweiss Doors turned this hangar owner's dream door into a bonafide reality. Dan Shaw's unbelievable hangar home has a hydraulic door that does an incredible trick. The entire porch lifts a full 90 degreees up.

“It started with the idea that I wanted a hangar home that didn't look like a hangar. Hangars are basically ugly. We wanted to jazz ours up just a bit,” said Shaw. “When you drive up to it and push the remote button, people are absolutely amazed!”

“If you have a dream about a special building, run it by the Schweiss team. They do great stuff with doors and they're easy to work with.” - Dan Shaw, Geneva, FL.

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Shaw Porch Door

Nine Fine Irishmen is a Las Vegas southside strip-located pub of epic proportions. It has a great location just across from the MGM Grand Casino. The pub's interior features a grand Victorian-style bar. It was entirely handcrafted in Ireland by a variety of local tradesmen using authentic Irish materials.

A unique kiosk with a spectacular 360 degree view of the Las Vegas Strip opens up outside to the public with four Schweiss hydraulic designer doors. The year-round outdoor patio and bar kiosk has ample seating for about 100 people. It features two custom made Schweiss hydraulic designer doors 15' x 4' 4" which open at the sides and two 8' x 4' 4" hydraulic doors opening at each end. A unique feature for this is the use of only one hydraulic pump for all four doors, with four separate key stations to open and close the doors. When the doors are open they provide shade to the area around the bar. When closed, they provide a tight seal and security to the contents inside.

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Nine Fine Irishmen

Brendan McDermott, owner of Tyron Fabrication installed a 30' wide x 12' tall bifold door on his helicopter hangar! The door features the new Schweiss "Strap Latch" to lock the door in tight.

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Bifold Doors

All-around handyman Dennis Scearce - nicknamed “Odd Job Johnny” - needed a door for his new garage in Mooresville, NC. He didn't want it to look like a typical garage door, in fact he didn't want the door to be seen at all when closed. He decided on a Schweiss 25' x 9' hydraulic door. “Everybody that comes by gets faked out. All the neighbors think it's just unbelievable...” said Scearce.

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Odd Job Johnny

To meet North Oaks, MN residential zoning restrictions requiring garage doors not exceed certain heights, Jay Hare found a solution with Schweiss Doors. The finished door is a 12' x 16' strap bifold door that opens to 14' but gives the appearance of a door half that size.

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Hidden RV Door

The Blue Bottle Coffee Company business in San Francisco's Hayes Valley ordered two custom-made Schweiss bifold doors for their busy kiosk. The two doors measure roughly 11.5' x 9' and are equipped with electric photo eye sensors, auto latches, remote opening and emergency backup systems.

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Blue Bottle Coffee Co.

This cedar clad 15' x 6' Schweiss Hydraulic Door adds a beautiful and functional finishing touch to this log cabin in Bend, Oregon.

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Hydraulic Doors