If you've been living in your home for years and you have the original garage door, it could be time to get a new one. If you're thinking of freshening your home with new siding or paint, that's the perfect time for a new door too. Here are suggestions for choosing and maintaining your new door.
Pick A Door That Matches Your Home
There are several styles and colors of garage doors so you can find one that's a perfect match for your home's exterior color and architectural style. If you choose a wood door, you can even have the door custom made to fit a garage that's taller or wider than usual.
You may want to renovate the exterior of your home first and leave the garage door for last so it's easier to find a good match. You might even try using a garage door visualizer that lets you try different styles of doors on a picture of your home or a similar sample home.
Think About Your Budget
If you're fixing up the rest of your home too, you may not have a big budget for a new garage door. That's okay because a plain white metal door would be appropriate for most homes. However, if you do want something different, you could get a brown door or a door with a wood grain look. Plus, you can get windows or glass panels to make the door more attractive. However, windows and other upgrades make the door cost more.
Consider Maintenance Responsibilities
All garage doors need to be maintained properly on the inside so the door glides smoothly on the track and doesn't shudder or vibrate. By taking good care of your door, you'll have fewer problems with it. By maintaining the exterior, your door will look nicer for longer too.
Different materials need different care. Garage doors can be made from metal, wood, fiberglass, and vinyl. Metal and vinyl are usually easy to keep clean since they can be pressure washed easily with a lower risk of damage. You may need to do more maintenance to a wood door including staining or painting. You may also need to paint a fiberglass door.
Metal and vinyl can usually be painted too if you want to freshen the color or change it. However, you'll want to make sure you can paint vinyl without voiding the warranty. Door materials also sustain damage in different ways. Metal can dent, vinyl might crack, wood can decay, swell, or splinter, and fiberglass might discolor.
You'll want to keep up with maintenance and repairs so your door complements your house and property for years to come and keeps working so you don't get stuck in your garage.
Contact a local garage door company, such as Town & Country Door LLC, to learn more.
Share
