There’s a hurricane coming! A hurricane-rated garage door may be required for residential construction in coastal areas that are prone to heavy storms like Hurricane Andrew – an event that rocked Florida 25 years ago. With special features such as heavy-duty components, watertight seals and impact-resistant panels, a hurricane-rated garage...
Category: Garage Door Usage
Are There Any Financial Benefits of Getting a New Garage Door?
Getting a new garage door for your home does have its aesthetic and functional benefits, like a quieter operating door. Many homeowners do not realize when shopping for new residential garage doors that there are financial benefits a new door will provide as well. #1: New garage doors include a...
Garage Door Basics Every Homeowner Needs to Know
Most homeowners will replace their residential garage doors one to two times while living in their current homes. If you have never replaced a garage door before, it is essential to know garage door basics to make shopping for your new door easier. Not to mention, garage door basics can...
How to Tell When It’s Time for a New Garage Door?
We use our garages for various purposes, including as a workshop, for storage, and parking our vehicles. The garage door helps protect whatever we put in our garages. However, eventually, the garage door will wear out and need to be replaced. As the door ages, there will be some telltale...
Dressing Up Your Garage For Entertaining
As people refrain from going out during the pandemic, America's garages are being reimagined as entertainment spaces to host small groups of family and familiar friends. A conveniently large, flexible and airy room, the garage can enable social distancing by allowing guests to "spread out" with extra seating and still...
10 Cool Things You Can Do With a Raynor MyQ™ Enabled Garage Door Opener
The ability to open and close your garage door from anywhere in the world is certainly an amazing feature of MyQ™ controlled garage door openers. Perhaps it was that cool new feature that first attracted us to the technology. But did you know about these other emerging capabilities for security,...