subject: Replacing Your Garage Door For The Right Reasons [print this page] If you want to change the appearance of the front of your home but don't want to do something as dramatic as painting, consider replacing your garage door. If you are still not convinced, following are some other reasons why you may want to do this.
First of all, thought you may not know it, it can actually increase the value of your home. Replacing an old garage door with a new stylish maintenance free door will do wonders for the value of your home.
Many Real Estate agents will confirm that it is easier to sell your home when the garage looks good. It is sometimes the first thing that people driving by will notice.
As mentioned before, it will change the overall appearance of your property. Some garage doors come in as many as fifteen colors in a baked-on paint finish, many different styles, and a wide variety of windows, all of which can give your home a new look.
Talk to a professional about choosing a look that will best go with the style of your property. You don't want to jump into something that will not match!
Believe it or not, replacing it can even lower your heating and cooling bills significantly. A properly insulated garage door can pay for itself over time by reducing your energy costs by keeping the heat out in the summer and the cold out in winters.
This savings will occur when you have living quarters above the garage or when the are is being used as a work shop. You never know how much you may be able to begin saving!
Replacing it will also reduce your maintenance time. Many metals doors are low maintenance when you choose a pre-finished color.
They require only mild soap and water for cleaning. So say goodbye to painting and scraping and hello to more leisure time.
It can even protect the items you are storing in there from the elements, including rain, wind, snow, and flooding.
Many people use this area for storage, after all. To protect those items from the damage caused by extreme heat and cold, choose an insulated door with a thermo barrier that prevents heat or cold from travelling from the outside surface to the inside surface.
You can also combine this with a PVC weather-strip with screw cover and double fin rubber weather-strip. It may also encourage you to better utilize the space.
With the use of an insulated new shield, you will find this area a more pleasant place to work in. You can use this area as a workshop, art studio, playroom, band practice area, or a heated storage room.
Buying a new cover can increase the security of the items in your space. It is much easier to kick in or drill through a wooden or metal non-insulated door which is at least 1 3/4 inches thick and has a metal skin front and back.
This can be enough to deter a thief from trying to break through a metal insulated door. Better safe than sorry, right?
After all, it can prevent intruders from easy access. This opening is the largest access to your home.
Many new electric entrance openers come with the rolling code technology, which makes it far more difficult to gain access when the opener uses one of 100 billion new codes each time the door is opened. Protect your loves ones in every way you can.
It can even reduce the risk of injury. Photo eyes, which are now mandatory, sense when something is in the way or passing through the opening when the door is coming down.
This has two benefits: when the light beam is broken, it will reverse back up when coming down to prevent an injury and/or turn on a light so you will see where you are going when it is dark. This is particularly important if you have small children.
If you like to support North American manufacturers, ask your supplier if they are offering you a North American made product. Buying one of these entrances is a long-term investment.
All of these benefits can be achieved through a simple replacement. Talk to a professional today about making this positive change to the front of your home.
