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All You Need to Know About Garage Doors

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If you have a garage, you must have felt how important the garage door is at some point of time. The importance of a proper garage door for the safety of your car and family members cannot be underscored. In this article, let us understand about the garage doors and become conscious about the importance of their regular maintenance. Materials Galore While planning for a garage door, the first thing that comes to your mind is its building material. Customers are spoiled for choice as far as the building materials and designs are concerned. Wood and steel are the commonest building material. For each kind of garage gate material, you can get multiple options for its exterior look and feel. You can decide upon decorative windows, hardware, and insulation as per your requirements. When you shop around for a new garage gate, each manufacturer will vouch that their product is the best. Don't be tempted by catchy advertisements or unrealistic promises. Always keep in mind that your new ga...

Garage Door Repair Realigning Sensors

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 Depending on your operating system, your garage door may feature infrared sensors as one of the main safety features. These sensors will stop and reverse the door if a child or animal runs unexpectedly in the path of the closing door. If there is nothing blocking the sensors but the door refuses to close, there may be a problem with the sensors. How it works Since 1993, garage door opener manufacturers have been required to include anti-entrapment safety devices, which typically come in the form of sensors. A beam of infrared light is transmitted and received from one sensor to the other, communicating with the opener that the path is clear and the door can be closed. Each sensor may have a small light so you can tell that it is on and working. Realigning sensors is a matter of getting both of the lights to illuminate simultaneously and continuously. What went wrong? Garage door sensors have nothing to do with the door going up, only down. If your door won't open, you may need to ...

Taking Proper Garage Door Repair Services

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 There are many benefits of going for professional garage door repair services as they provide a wide range of services that will make sure that your door will be repaired within a fixed amount of time. Competent repair companies offer a wide variety of services from common repair problems to a complete replacement. These days there are many such service providers available, so it's important that you do some amount of research and take the services of a company that offers quality services according to your requirements, convenience and budget. Word of mouth is regarded as a very good option to gain information about such service providers. You can ask people in your friend and family circle who have prior experience of taking these services. Because of the reason that they have prior experience of taking these services, their advices and opinions will be quite helpful to make your decision. It is quite vital that you take the services of a company that provide services for all th...

Garage Door Replacement Is Among the Top 10 Home Improvement Projects

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 The overhead garage door used to be something that was only used when moving a vehicle into or out of the garage space. It was utilitarian in the max, and no one thought about it much until they had to brave the elements to get out of their cars to raise or lower it. They didn't much care what their doors looked like as long as they functioned as expected. No one back then could have imagined how important automatic garage doors would become to 21st century homeowners. In fact, statistics show that garage doors have replaced the front door as the main entrance in 71% of all homes. The advent of attached garages and automatic door openers has sparked the new uses of the doors. Face it. The automatic door is by far the easiest access to most homes and the most convenient. With the push of a button, you can sail your car into the garage and out of the rain and snow. Loading and unloading groceries and other supplies from your car to your home is a whole lot faster and more efficient....