subject: What Are Roller Garage Doors? [print this page] Adding doors to garages in ones homes is one of the most popular home improvement projects that home owners in many countries seem to be undertaking these days. There are a number of reasons why so many house owners seem to be zeroing in on garage doors as one of the best things that they can add to their homes.
The first of course is safety. Garages that are built into homes are and always have been one of the most weak areas of household security and if there is a break-in in a house that has an integrated garage more often than not the garage will have been the point of entry as garages are notoriously weak. There are many ways to get around this weakness. Some people add security and surveillance systems to their homes, others fit burglar alarms in their garages but the former solution can be prohibitively expensive and out of the reach of many home owners in these tough economic times. The latter solution of a burglar alarm is not necessarily a great one. What home owners have realised that the simple act of retro fitting their garage with a set of heavy duty garage doors is one of the easiest and more cost effective way of greatly boosting the security of the garage and by extension of the entire house.
Roller garage doors are one of the most secure forms of garage doors and they have other advantages as well. They can be installed quickly and easily with minimum amount of breaking down and rebuilding necessary and hence they are a great choice for people who want to retrofit existing garages with new doors. Roller garage doors also take very little space when they are opened because as the name suggests they roll up into a small space near the ceiling of the garage and hence unlike other types of doors that slide up into the roof, if you are using roller type doors you can have ceiling fans, lamps and other ceiling mounted fittings in your garage. This makes roller type garage doors especially convenient for garages that are being used as dens or home gymnasiums. To make these type of doors even better, they can be ordered with insulating material inserted into the individual metal slats of the door which makes the doors perfect for garages in colder climates that need to be used by people and not just to park automobiles.
