If you are renovating your home, it is quite likely that at some point you’ll decide to improve on the garage doors.
Those doors do, after all, make up a large share of the visible section of your house, and naturally you want them looking their best. Maybe you’re adding an entire garage to your home, or completely rebuilding one. Maybe you have a garage, but the garage door is totally decrepit and in need of a replacement from scratch. Maybe you have a perfectly serviceable door, but you’d like to investigate improving it.
If you fit any of those descriptions, you’ll find a few tips on how to fix up your garage door.
Replacement or Upgrade
Suppose you’ve moved into a house with a working manual garage door, and you’d rather have an automatic door
. You have two options: live with the existing doors or adapt the existing garage doors by adding an automatic opener. Maybe even a third option. A new garage door and opener!
Adding an external motor to open and close your existing garage doors is unlikely to get you the smooth performance of a newly installed garage door. You will have something that is perfectly acceptable for normal use. It will also be less expensive than starting from scratch. Finally, it will be in keeping with the style of the rest of your home, assuming that the previous occupants had at least a little consideration for the appearance of the building.
New Garage Doors for an Old Garage
What about a second scenario? Your home has a garage, but the garage door is useless. It’s not uncommon to move into a house where the garage has been used as a storeroom, and find that the garage door hasn’t been opened for years. In such a situation the garage doors’ mechanism is likely to be rusted and the garage door is unusable.
Fortunately, it isn’t hard to replace a garage door on an existing garage. Garage door installation professional will often offer to dispose of your old garage door, and offer you a selection of new doors to choose from. You also don’t need to worry much about non-standard sizes and shapes of garage. It is now possible to obtain doors for any shape of garage – this may involve custom garage doors, but if you are guided by a professional, you will not find that to be much of an inconvenience.
Don’t Settle for Your Neighbors Garage Door
If you’ve got a house that you want to renovate, it’s quite likely that you have some strong ideas about how you’d like to make it look. Don’t let your garage doors get in the way of that. In other words, don’t settle for doors which look as though they are just the ‘standard model’. Be adventurous, and dare to demand something that compliments the look you are planning for your home. Many different designs are available today and made in almost any design you can imagine with a variety of materials including steel and wood, the two most common materials.
So dream a little before you invest in your garage door.
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