Choosing the perfect new doors for your garage is not a choice that should be made hastily, especially when you consider their aesthetic importance to your overall property and its curb appeal. Here are a few simple tips to help you select the best garage door for your home:
When it comes to garage doors, size really does matter:
Measure the height, width and thickness of your existing garage door and take it to your chosen supplier and fitter. Measure carefully and do it more than once to get exact and accurate results.
Styles for your new garage doors:
Try to choose doors that will compliment the exterior of your home and consider personalizing them by selecting one with window panels fitted or one with a panel design. Following are 4 of the most popular panel designs:
- Carriage house
These panels can instantly give your home a characterful and more unique look
- Flush panels
Without making your garage door look too conspicuous, these panels are flat and slightly textured to help compliment the surrounding wall area.
- Long, raised panels
Helping to give more depth and definition to your garage door, these can accentuate and enhance the overall look of your home.
- Short, raised panels
Older, historical homes are very well suited to shorter raised panels, and they can lend a great deal of depth to the door.
- Choosing the material for your new garage doors:
Garage doors made from metal are perhaps the most popular choice for modern homeowners due to their price and durability, and most manufacturers offer a variety of colors that can be matched to your home. Here are the 3 most popular types of metal garage door:
- Single layer metal doors
Made from a single sheet of galvanized steel, these are a popular and thrifty choice
- Double layer metal doors
These doors have a backer that makes them extra soundproofed, and more insulated
- Triple layer metal doors
Made from the same material as double layered doors, these also come with a galvanized layer on the inside to help protect the polystyrene or polyurethane from getting damaged. These 3 layered doors are arguable the strongest, securest and most soundproofed of all garage doors and are a fantastic investment and addition to any home.
Getting the right parts and accessories for your new garage doors:
Hardware for your new garage doors is an affordable and simple way of ensuring that your doors are the best in the neighbourhood, and adding hinges, handles or simulated windows can make them look unique and attractive.
When purchasing a garage door opener, make sure that it’s compatible with your new doors and has all the functions that you require from it before you buy it.
Never rush into purchasing new garage doors, and wherever possible, get the opinion of a local seller or supplier of garage doors so that you can be sure you’re choosing the right ones for your property.
