Your Home’s New Look and Increased Value With A Wood Garage Door

December 6th, 2013 Posted in Uncategorized
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Many people consider having a wood garage door installed before selling their home or simply to enhance their home’s exterior. That is because wood garage doors give homes a beautiful aesthetic accent while at the same time increasing property value.

After your old garage door has been replaced with an attractive new wood garage door, you’ll be blown away at the beautifying effect that your new wood garage door has on your home.

Therefore, installing wood garage doors provides you with many benefits, including:

  1. Custom building to your specifications/preferences
  2. Able to be made to fit any shape or size garage
  3. They provide your home with a “unique” look
  4. Damages can be repaired easily, without replacing the entire door
  5. Automatic (remote) or manual operation
  6. Increased home and property value
  7. Naturally insulating your home against cold and heat

Nevertheless, there is more to wood garage doors, then there positive effects and benefits. It is important for you to consider the installation and configuration of your new wood garage doors.

Your Options

It is highly recommended that you use a professional garage door contractor to take care of the installation.

This ensures that all of your needs are met. Furthermore, a professional can provide you all the possible service options required to bring new life to your garage and home.

Your local garage door company will be able to offer you many trims and finishes from which to choose. In addition, many homeowners enjoy having a trained professional help them decide which garage door is best suited for their home and situation.

Posted on behalf of Legacy Garage Doors

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Children-Friendly Garage Doors

February 14th, 2013 Posted in New Garage Doors
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Children are fascinated by anything they can make go and up down with a push of a button. Playing with garage doors can seem like a fun game to them but it can easily turn from fun into injury. Garage doors weigh hundreds of pounds and should not be toyed with. If you have small children at your home, consider these safety tips to keep both your kids and your garage door from harm. 

Installing Children-Friendly Garage Doors

If you are looking at installing a new garage door, there are some features to consider if you have small children. While most garage doors are perfectly safe when used correctly, a young child may be injured if they are allowed to play or use the garage door unsupervised. Some things to consider when installing a new garage door: 

  • Pinch-resistant door panels. Thousands of injuries happen every year when fingers get in between the panels of a garage door closing. Children are even more likely to not realize this danger. Many garage door companies offer pinch-resistant door panels to avoid getting fingers caught in these gaps.
  • Garage open button. Make sure that the garage door open button is out of reach of small children. Have the installer put it high enough that small hands cannot reach it.
  • Test the reverse mechanism. After the door is installed, make sure the reverse mechanism is working properly. Put a soft object under the door and close it. It should stop and reverse when it comes in contact. 

A few small adjustments in your garage door installation can make it much safer for the small children in your home. It is worth the time and effort to keep them safe from preventable garage door accidents.

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What Color Should Your Garage Door Be?

October 29th, 2012 Posted in New Garage Doors
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If you’re shopping for a new garage door, you might get lost in technicalities such as springs and openers and forget completely about one very important aspect. More than anything else, the color of the garage door can have an impact on the look of your house. The right color can blend and enhance, while the wrong color can make the entire house look off balance and strange. 

Most garage door manufacturers offer steel doors in basic colors of white, grey and beige. Wood doors are even more diverse, offered in natural wood stains and a wide variety of colors. Both steel and wood doors can also be painted, if desired.

 Color choice is easy if you keep a few basic points in mind: 

  • The garage door typically takes up a third of the front of your house and therefore becomes a focal point. If the garage door is bold or bright it will divert attention away from other aspects of the house, such as the front door, and will strongly emphasize the garage door. If the color blends it can make the house seem bigger, or help emphasize other aspects of the house, such as interesting architecture or a beautiful front entry.
     
  • Most homes have three colors: one for the siding, one for the trim and one for the door. In general, it is best to match the garage door with the siding.
     
  • For a little interest, choose a garage door that is in the same color cast as the siding, but a shade or two lighter.  If the house is brown, for example, use a cocoa color on the garage doors. If the house is brick, choose a color that brings out the cast of the brick, usually beige, blue or grey. 

Just like you would test a swatch of color for inside paint, try to test the color of your garage door before you make a permanent change.  Place a plyboard sample near the garage to see how it will look, or, better yet, experiment with an online program like Color-a-Home on the Better Homes and Gardens website.

 

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Replacement Garage Doors-Stamped Carriage Door vs. Carriage Overlay

June 15th, 2012 Posted in Garage Door Companies, Garage Door Contractors, Garage Door Installation, New Garage Doors
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Well if you’ve decided that it’s time to replace your existing garage door with a new carriage style door because you’re tired of repairing your existing overhead door here’s some info to help you make a better decision and save yourself some money too.

Carriage style garage doors have become very popular since the late 1990’s and have significantly changed the appearance of today’s homes. Since the introduction of carriage garage doors your selection of garage door designs has quadrupled and the appearance has gone from mundane to exquisite.

Stamped carriage doors or stamped steel carriage doors are the most economical and generally speaking the most durable of the carriage style doors. Stamped steel carriage doors offer a variety of window designs and colors as well as insulation options, are durable and very affordable however they lack in design options. Stamped carriage garage doors are offered in non-insulated, add in insulation and sandwich style which is the strongest and best insulated garage door.

Carriage doors that use an overlay pattern offer endless styles and designs as well as insulation and window options. Creative ability with these types of overhead garage doors is only limited by your budget. Carriage garage doors that are made with an overlay can be constructed with wood frames and wood or composite design overlays or with a flush steel garage door and wood or composite overlays.

Long term the stamped steel garage doors will give better service with fewer problems because the material is all steel. Overlay type steel carriage garage doors can be troublesome because the base of the garage door is steel and expands and contracts at one rate while the overlay is a different material and expands and contracts differently. This difference in material will eventually cause a delamination of the garage door overlay material and once this happens the only thing to do is replace your overhead door again.

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