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Types of Garage Doors - Get Your Pick!

 As there are several choices of materials for garage doors; there are also several types of them. There are two general categories of doors, the tilt-ups and the section roll-ups. Each category, further branch outs into several types of garage doors. Under tilt-up doors are the following types: canopy door, retractable door; swing-hung door; or the up-and-over door. For the roll-ups category, here are the common types: sectional doors; overhead door; and the roller door. Tilt-up garage doors are those types which swing upward to open, and slides parallel into the garage ceiling. Tilt-up doors are space-consuming. Hence, the façade of the garage should be spacious to allow the door to swing up. This provides a bigger entrance space for vehicles. These types are ideal for spacious garage area as for huge household garage and commercial garage. These can also be installed easily, hassle-free. The canopy garage door is one of the tilt-up types. Unlike the common tilt-up types, when it...

4 Steps to Replacing Garage Door Springs

 Picture this if you will - it's early in the AM hours you're out cold. Suddenly, a loud crash wakes you from your deep sleep. You spring up and out of bed to find the source of the noise? Has the zombie apocalypse begun? Are Charlie Sheen and Emilo Estevez really delinquent garbage men? Or is Michael Bay and his 'splosions in town filming Transformers 3? None of the above. Perhaps you were just in a deep sleep. After looking through the house with a quick crusted eye once over, you decide to head back to the warm and cozy bed. It isn't until you've exhausted your snooze button that morning, now in mad rush to get yourself and children ready for work and school. Racing against the clock, you manage to get yourself and rat pack together as you scurry in a frenzy through the garage and into your car. But now your garage door doesn't open. You feverishly push the remote button with your first reaction being that the batteries must be dead. That's when all the p...