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− | + | Garage doors fit into two very broad categories, commercial and residential. Most residential doors are known as sectional doors. That is, when they go up, they separate into four separate sections to go around the bend in the tracks from vertical to horizontal. There are a few residential doors that come in one solid part and tilt up. | |
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− | + | Given that tilt up doors are one solid piece, they must tilt from vertical to horizontal when they are raised. Because they protrude out and away from the garage door opening when they are raised, they require more room in which to operate. | |
− | + | Commercial doors may not be for garages at all, but connected to the walls of buildings equivalent to warehouses or the backs of retail stores. These are usually roll up doors and they're typically adjacent to loading docks. A roll up door has many sections, relying on its height and rolls up around a bar at the top of the door opening. That implies that the track that the door operates in is entirely different than that of a residential door. It has no horizontal portion of track. | |
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− | + | Garage doors are everywhere. They're found in people's houses, farms, repair shops, storage facilities and automobile repair shops. | |
− | + | Garage Doors can also be obtained in a large variety of places. You can find them at your local garage door company, on line, at your local big box store and even the discount membership clubs. | |
− | + | The wonderful advances in technology and the addition of numerous types of garage doors makes them beautiful and very efficient. There are doors for double car garages, single automotive garages and if you want, you may have a garage door manufacturered on your particular need. | |
− | One | + | One piece of equipment that really makes garage doors handy is the garage door operator. Despite of climate conditions or darkness, you can activate your garage door from the comfort and convenience of your home or car. You can also have a keyless entry system that will open your door by entering a PIN number. |
− | + | Remote controls that operate your door from your automobile have become the standard. We often forget just how convenient these devices are. Just count the number of times you have to enter and exit your automobile to operate your garage door manually. | |
− | + | The same remotes that raise garage doors are in addition used to open gates, making gates more user friendly. | |
− | + | With at the moment accessible supplies and technology, garage doors will be repaired very easily. A few of the repairs you might be able to do yourself. | |
− | + | However it is recommended that the majority of the repairs be done by professionals. It is because there are extraordinarily powerful springs which might be used as a counterweight against the load of the garage door. | |
− | + | Garage door spring and cable replacement is one of those jobs best left to specialists. Torsion spring replacement requires special tools that are generally not available to home owners. Replacing garage door springs and cables is a routine job done by garage door businesses. | |
− | + | Garage doors have seen a lot of changes the past several decades. Garage doors have become more durable, lighter and more resistant to weather conditions. They are also reasonably priced and less expensive to install and maintain. | |
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+ | Because garage doors are now typically made of light weight metal instead of wood, the springs necessary to provide the power that enables a garage door to effortlessly move up and down can be less powerful and easier to install and maintain. | ||
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+ | Today's garage doors, along with their opening devices are modern marvels. Until they encounter some kind of operating difficulty, they are more often than not taken for granted in our everyday lives. And that's a good thing. | ||
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