A Quick Guide on Choosing Garage Doors

Photo Credit: iStock Photo When an innovative caveman first came up with the idea of a door, little did he know that he will change human society forever.  The invention of the door hails the birth of privacy and security.  Thousands of years later, humans still protect everything with doors especially their homes and beloved cars. If left unprotected, cars can fall victim to vandals and other threats. Garage doors vary in style and functionality. When choosing a garage door, a person has to consider whether he has a long or short driveway. For Short Driveways If space is an issue, roller garage doors would be more suitable since they don t need much area to work on.  This garage door is made up of aluminum attached to one another horizontally to form a metallic curtain attached to a horizontal drum overhead. When the drum begins turning around, the garage door opens. It closes when the drum turns in the opposite direction. Another choice for garage with short driveways is the ove
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Top Five Tips for Maintaining Your Garage Door

Photo Credit: iStock Photo Very rarely does a garage door form any sort of a priority in people’s minds—up until the point that they stop working and leave you out in the cold or heat. That’s because we tend to use our garage doors with a single-minded sense of automation that it hardly passes our consciousness. The problem there is that, more often than not, when they do happen to break down, it usually is pretty serious and causes a terrible hassle when you can’t get in or out of your home. The trick here is that it’s actually really simple to maintain your garage doors. 1.Lubricate Often times, the reason that a garage door will break down is that over time, the lubrication dries up and friction starts to wear down the more vulnerable, small parts like rollers, hinges, tracks, hinges, latches, and others. A good squirt from penetrating solvents like WD-40 is enough to keep you going. If any rust builds up and locks the torsion spring, a little oil applied will get it up a
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Six Safety Tips for Garage Door Installation

To stay safe when installing garage doors, here are six safety tips to keep in mind: Check the springs and change them when necessary. There are two types of springs to check: the torsion springs and extension springs. If there are squeaky sounds or quirky movements when raising and lowering the garage door, it may be due to some problem with either spring. Have the springs checked as frequently as needed and replace it when necessary. Examine your cables. Garage door cables prevent the springs from flinching and allow a broken spring to fall safely. Check the cables. Fully open the garage door and place a couple of c-clamps below the door’s lowest wheel to prevent the door from sliding down. Then, carefully unhook the springs, change the cable and hook up the springs again. Do not unhook the cables if the tension springs have not been released yet. Careful with your fingers! Most DIY-ers injure their fingers by pulling down the garage door with their fingers in between the panels.
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