A modern garage door is a complex piece of machinery that is called upon to work perfectly day after day, year after year. We tend to take our garage doors for granted until we arrive home one day and the door doesn’t open. There are myriad reasons why a garage door may fail and any of the major c...
When it comes to talking about the garage some guys get that far away look in their eyes that speaks to all the things they wish they had so they could give their beloved auto the TLC it deserves. Other folks give the garage as a whole about as much thought as they give garage door openers, which is...
If your home has a two-car garage, the garage door may constitute 20% or more of the face your house presents to passersby. If the profile of your home is somewhat offset to the street, the garage door may constitute as much as 50% of what people see when they look at your house. So if your garage d...
Today’s mechanical garage doors are marvels of technology and so far advanced from their noisy, somewhat clumsy and undependable forebears they don’t seem related at all. Today’s doors are quiet, secure, reliable and affordable pieces of domestic tech. And they’re one more thing as well: customizabl...
Many homeowners take their garage doors and garage door openers for granted. They're supposed to work on-demand, and they do — mostly. But sometimes, you have a stuck garage door or remote on the fritz, and it's a source of frustration. This is especially inconveni...
There was a time when all garage doors were made of natural wood. You can still get wood doors, or that "wood look", but for the most part those days are behind us. In recent years the garage door industry has moved beyond wood and embraced a slew of new materials from which to fabricate their doo...