Your Door - Your Way: The Euro-Dor

The Most Versatile and Sustainable Garage Door.

Life is full of choices. From what to wear now that many are headed back to the office to how to care for our loved ones during this unbelievable time to deciding between the various milk products offered today. Our days and our minds are plagued by choices, and choosing the right garage door should not be one of them. We make it simple with the Euro-Dor: the only door to offer everything you need at a price point sure to please!

Whether your goal is a design from our library of options or is notably custom, the Euro-Dor offers you options to properly compliment your home. As in the example below, you see the door design remains the same (three sections, two panels, V-Grooves, grille section); however, the selected top options allow for these neighboring doors to shine in their own way showcasing that small design choices can have great impact! 

One with an arch top and 16 lites speaks to the traditional appearance of the home. The other, with the complementary transom with rectangular lites, shines with a modern edge. These two literally live beside each other, are built from the same stock, and have been individually selected to complete the varied appearance of the exteriors.

After seeing these two 'fraternal twins', I set out to get to know our Euro-Dor a little more intimately. What I found is that this particular construction, material selection, and patented processes make it the most versatile door in the garage door market today. We find a lot of Euro-Dors living out their time at the Jersey Shore and in Coastal areas which makes great sense for many reasons, such as its ability to withstand harsh geographical impacts, but a closer look reveals the Euro-Dor also accommodates virtually all architectural aspects because of its ability to transform its design and appearance to accommodate your desires. It is the chameleon of garage doors!

The Construction:

The Euro was the first vinyl product of its kind, and its patented innovation allows us to break boundaries in garage door design. Using a single sheet of material and dynamic machinery, we are able to run the design from section to section without interruption. This allows us to not only provide a precise and detailed design, but we can also customize it without limitation.

Here's how: Using a hand placed wood frame and nesting in our insulation, we laminate a vinyl back cover and a solid vinyl exterior that encases the face. This construction approach also provides significant structural stability to the door whereas many others use MDF and other composite materials to frame the inside. This slab now becomes a blank slate to bring you more for your door. Combining stability with sustainability, we chose smart material to provide both beauty and durability. The Euro-Dor wears 3/8" material on the face and edges, Versatex for unfinished and Tricoya for finished doors, that offers a smooth and clean aesthetic. We have options to add select profiles, such as V-Groove or Beadboard or Raised Panel, and nearly limitless designs to satisfy inspiration. 

When looking at the garage door market today, we found doors that were made with formed vinyl, but their material, construction and design options clearly lack the level of quality and durability we hold with our nearly 100 year legacy. We also found doors that look quite like ours, in fact using the exact same vinyl material, yet they paled in comparison. What they lack is our sturdy wood frame and the single sheet of material on the face. This feature alone will provide sustainability and satisfaction for years to come, not to mention added design capabilities. With no overlays or section joints to contend with, the vinyl can live significantly longer.

Where others find themselves limited in their top and window design options we have crafted ourselves to be nearly limitless. Because of the single sheet application we can provide nearly any window configuration and design without inserts. Add to this our precision machining, and you can count on a replacement section (versus having to purchase the entire door as others require) when little Tommy hits the hockey puck into a section. 

Another distinguishing feature we found is the smooth, natural finish of our vinyl. VERSATEX is manufactured with the tightest tolerances, the brightest white, and the smoothest finish in the market. Our manufacturing techniques carve clean crisp profiles into the face of the door leaving edges sharp and finished smooth.

The Diversity of Design:

Using your unique design perspective, ambition, and talent, we offer you the opportunity to complete your vision with the quality and capabilities needed to truly round out your final project. Our doors allow you to capture architectural features used in original period designs or contemporary trends. For example, your windows can be nearly any configuration, any design, and nearly any location to tie features through the home to the garage door! You can accommodate any opening by customizing in 1" height and width increments or matching an uneven floor with a scribed bottom. The face of the door is fully customizable whether it's adding logos and routed designs to geometric shapes and windows to waves or anchors - you name it!

Color selection is a huge aspect of design. Using our D200 High performance finish, all Factory Finished products will be delivered with a clean finish to last! While most of our products do not require finishing and may remain natural, adding color to your project can add the wow-factor that we are after! Our vast and ever-expanding color palette includes blacks, charcoals, and dark greens as well as faux stains to truly replicate the look of wood without the maintenance.

With a cabinet like finish each door leaves our factory pristine and poised to last. We offer a standard color palette for solid finishes, but we also offer custom matching of any color you choose. If the desired look is to replicate a wood door, we offer nine standard faux finishes, but we also offer custom stain matching as well.

With additional options for decorative hardware, specialty glass, interior upgrades, and more, you can bring your dream door to life!

The Lasting Benefits:

When we build, we build for beauty and durability that will last because we care about your satisfaction as well as our environment. From our processes to our products, we reduce, reuse, and recycle everything we can. We run on solar, and we love to help reduce your overall maintenance efforts and costs.

Doors in the Estate Collection offer efficiency and noise reduction by laminating the insulation to the interior of the door to keep it in position and reduce pockets where air can reside. Tight construction and quality materials offer you confidence and savings. Providing a sustainable product is important because we believe our legacy has a responsibility to generations that come after us. We want this door not only to last but to provide energy efficiency for your home.

Fimbel doors offer you a low-maintenance lifestyle. The clean appearance of the door should last for years to come with a gentle clean with mild soap and water. No harsh abrasives or undue elbow grease necessary. This aspect may be overlooked, but when we consider the supply chain for cleaning products, the effort to implement the cleaning, and the residual waste moving into the earth, we see our processes make way for sustainability.

One of the longest lasting aspects of our doors is the contribution made upon purchase. For every door we sell, we work with our partners at One Tree Planted to plant a tree on your behalf. We know the resources generously given by Mother Nature need replenishing, and we want to pay it forward!

When it comes to choosing your garage door, we have made that easy for you with the Euro-Dor (part of the Estate Collection). This choice offers you long term satisfaction at a price point packed with value. Originated on the foundation of old-world craftsmanship and classic designs, we have added innovative technology and materials to offer unmatched beauty and durability. Using patented processes, this door was the first to show a continuous design from section to section using a single sheet of material. This innovation allows us to break the boundaries of what you THINK you can do with a garage door.