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Schweiss Doors is the leading manufacturer for Bifold & Hydraulic doors. Industry leading innovations since 1980. Custom built doors to fit any project!

Schweiss Doors is a leading manufacturer of bifold lift strap doors and one-piece hydraulic doors for the agricultural, aviation, architectural, commercial, industrial and residential applications. Schweiss doors can be found on aircraft hangars, farm shops, commercial buildings and homes around the world. Whether it's our patented “Lift Strap” bifold doors or our new “Red Power” hydraulic doors,

Schweiss is the company to choose for a strong, safe and reliable door. Learn more at bifold.com | hydraulicdoors.com.

05/24/2026

Big Enough to Fit a Dozer with the Blade Up

In Superior, Wisconsin, where the St. Louis River meets Lake Superior, there's a maintenance shop on an 80-acre coal yard. The bulldozers that work the yard come in here for service. They push coal across the piles and feed the conveyors that load the lake freighters headed for power plants downstream.

Mike Lebsack ran the project for Midwest Energy Resources Company, a wholly owned subsidiary of DTE Energy. The shop needed a door big enough to fit a dozer with the blade up and to run dependably day after day. The shipping season's short and intense, since the port closes for ice about four months a year, and any downtime with bulldozers costs real money.

“Without a doubt, we are super impressed with the quality of construction of the Schweiss bifold door. It's very pleasing to the eye, and all the welds are really good. Schweiss sent a team out to verify measurements before we actually ordered up the door to make sure measurements were spot on. Installation went super smooth — The Schweiss installers were very easy to work with. Rick and Rich have obvious pride in your company, product, and their work.“

https://www.bifold.com/door-installs.php

05/21/2026

Precision Science Starts Behind This Massive Glass Door

Behind a 13-by-14-foot glass door at Cornell University, Wilson West sits on piers driven into the bedrock. The work inside is part of the Cornell High Energy Synchrotron Source (CHESS) facility in Ithaca, New York, where scientists use powerful X-rays to study materials, biology, chemistry, and physics.

The new Wilson West space gives CHESS room for larger equipment, such as a lead-shielded research hutch and a custom magnet for high-field X-ray work. The door had to fit the space, allow large equipment to pass through, and fold up and out of the way, so they chose a Schweiss bifold door.

Installer Paul Stein has worked with these doors before, and he said it plainly. “The installation went great; it was easy to install, just like all other Schweiss Doors. I love the simplistic operation of Schweiss Doors. If you understand how they work, you can see that they are very beautifully engineered doors.”

https://www.bifold.com/designer-doors-education-museums.php

05/18/2026

A New Hangar Gives EAA Chapter 25 Room to Grow

EAA Chapter 25 has been part of Minnesota aviation since 1956. At Airlake Airport in Lakeville, EAA members have welcomed a new generation of pilots, builders, and experimenters and taught them about general aviation.

After nearly 25 years in the same hangar, the work at EAA Chapter 25 had outgrown the space. Schweiss Doors saw a group giving its time, talents, and weekends to aviation and recognized the need for a hangar door wide enough for what would come next.

The new 60-by-80 Walters Buildings hangar now sits at the edge of the field, with a 54-foot bifold door across the front. Gary Rosch’s widow helped finish the interior with an insulation kit in his name, so the door blends in and helps retain heat when the Minnesota weather turns cold.

“Some guys thought it would never happen,” Patrick Halligan said. “Thought we were crazy. We’re happy that it has all worked out.” Now the hangar has room for meetings, Young Eagles flights, project planes, and kids who’ll build gliders and find their way into aviation.

https://www.bifold.com/photo-of-the-day-eaa-chapter-25.php

05/15/2026

A 60-Foot Schweiss Door Made for Seaplane Country

Drive past Roche Harbor Airport on San Juan Island, and you'll see Merri Ann Simonson’s new hangar tucked near the water.

The door is Sixty feet across and eighteen feet tall, and the hangar needed to fit the largest floatplane that could land at Roche Harbor, with room around the wings.

Peter C. Schmidt Construction, Inc., which has been building in the San Juans for more than 25 years, took on the project. Project manager Jason Schmidt looked at Schweiss Doors on other hangars around the islands before he made the call.

Chance McClellan drove the door over from Vander Griend Lumber in Lynden, Washington, and put it in himself. It was his first lift strap install. The auto-latch locks it steady at any height if it stops moving. He said the manuals walked him through it without a hitch.

Merri Ann sells real estate on the islands when she isn't flying. She thinks about resale on every property she touches, including her own. She told us Schweiss is well-known to pilots, and that matters when a hangar trades hands.

If you're sketching out a project and working through which door makes sense, we’re around and happy to talk through it when you're ready!

https://www.bifold.com/photo-of-the-day-roche-harbor.php

05/12/2026

From First-Time Installer to Repeat Schweiss Door Owner

Brad Mottier hadn't put up a Schweiss door before. He ordered two bifold doors for his hangar. "It was a process at first, but once the first one was up, the second one came easily," Brad said.

The doors arrived exactly as Brad hoped, and he liked them so much that he ordered another hydraulic door for his house the next time he placed an order.

If you're reading this and you've never done a designer door before, that's okay. Most people we work with hadn’t either, the first time around. Call Schweiss Doors at 507-426-8273 to talk through anything you want to know for your next project!

https://www.bifold.com/photo-of-the-day-ohio-river-home.php

05/09/2026

Hawaii Custom Garage Owner Goes With a Hidden Schweiss Bifold Door

Most Hawaii homes from the 1970s weren't built with garages. A carport, maybe. Two cars, a roof, and that's it. Alex Eskin, a commercial pilot in Honolulu, said, "I’m a bit of a hobbyist. I wanted to build the garage as big as I could." – Alex Eskin, Pilot, Honolulu, Hawaii

He wanted something closer to a Garage-Mahal for the cars he loved working on, for his twin sons he wanted to teach, and for a wife who'd lived with the carport long enough. So, he saved up, hired a draftsman and a contractor, and drew up plans for a real garage with an apartment on top.

A standard residential garage door would've taken up about a foot of his ceiling. He needed that foot for a car lift. He also wanted one wide opening, not two split down the middle. A roll-up would've worked, but his wife thought it'd make the place look like a commercial body shop.

As a pilot, Alex was already familiar with bifold hangar doors. The door he chose is about 22 feet wide and 9 feet tall, sized to the opening, painted white to withstand the salt air, and later clad in siding that reads as tropical wood, complementing the rest of the house.

Nate's Welding Works out of Waianae handled the install. The garage hadn't been designed for a bifold, so the crew worked with Alex to mount it on the front of the building, the way he wanted.

Day-to-day, the door keeps the headroom open. A second car can fit under the lift. The boys learn how to rotate tires, change oil, and swap spark plugs, and the apartment upstairs brings in rent.

https://www.bifold.com/photo-of-the-day-alex-eskin-hawaii.php

05/06/2026

1858 Family Farm in Ohio Gets a New Schweiss Bifold Door

A few years ago, at Manchester Farms Ohio, Caleb Wilson was looking for a replacement door. A grain cart with the auger fully extended is not what you want hitting your shop door, but that’s exactly what happened.

Caleb and his wife, Karen, run a sixth-generation family farm. The Manchester family has farmed this land since 1858. A round barn sits by the road and has stood since 1908. It's listed on the National Register of Historic Places - NPS - Archived, and people still slow down to admire it.

The Manchesters chose a 45-foot-by-15-foot Schweiss bifold with lift straps, two built-in windows, automatic strap latches, remote controls, and constant-pressure safety control.

They’ll tell you the farm shop has transformed thanks to the windows, which have changed how the whole place feels and have become one of their favorite features. "Now there's daylight in there, even in winter. It's a mood thing," Caleb said.

https://www.bifold.com/farm-photos-manchester-farms.php

05/03/2026

Evans Overhead Door Installed a Schweiss Bifold Door to Beat the Arizona Heat

Rob Evans of Evans Overhead Door installed this Schweiss bifold door in Arizona. The door came with a weather seal all the way around it because Arizona summers regularly exceed 110 degrees.

With the seal in place, the interior stays cool. The bifold door reflects the sun's heat and casts a wide shade over the apron, leaving plenty of room to work without baking in the sun. The door also looks clean and finished when closed. You might look right past it if you didn't know it was there.

Rob's installed enough doors to know the difference. "Schweiss is just the better-built door," he said. He spotted a Schweiss lift-strap bifold in a hangar scene on Hawaii Five-0. "Schweiss Doors are just everywhere," he said. "It's cool to see."

04/29/2026

A Hidden Hurricane-Rated Door on a Miami Home

Walking up to the front of this Miami home, you’d swear it was a solid wall. The home’s hidden garage door sits flush with the blonde composite wood. Earning it the nickname “peek-a-boo door.”

The bifold garage door is 15 feet wide, 8 feet tall, and rated to withstand 175-mph winds. Schweiss Doors was selected for engineering expertise in meeting Miami-Dade County’s building codes and the ability to build a fully custom door to match the home’s exterior.

04/26/2026

Schweiss Doors Are Built Around the Way You Work

Here's a hangar at New Richmond Regional Airport - KRNH with clean lines and metal siding that match the neighboring hangars. Not too flashy, but it really looks like it belongs.

A Schweiss bifold opens the entire front wall, providing clearance that turns a tight squeeze into an easy tow-in or out of the hangar. Wide enough to roll aircraft in and out without a second thought.

Inside, the floor's coated in epoxy, the ceiling's lined out, and the door panel is insulated with foam board between the framing. The lift straps do the quiet, smooth and fuss-free heavy lifting. With a remote in hand, the door opens up, and you're ready to fly.

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72121 470th Street
Hector, MN
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