If you are planning to install highly functional and convenient doors in your garage, you should consider installing sectional garage doors. The doors come either as insulated or un-insulated, which ensures all your personal needs and preferences for garages are met.
The insulated doors are perfect for garages that are part of your property while un-insulated doors are designed for garages that stand separately. Furthermore, most of these garage doors come fitted with full perimeter seal that keeps out debris, moisture and wind. They are also made up of several horizontally but separate hinged panels that open vertically enabling you to park in front of the garage door when need be.
Why buy sectional garage doors
The insulated doors will keep your garage warmer in the winter and cool in the summer, which helps to reduce cooling and heating expenses especially when garage is part of your property. The insulated doors make your garage perfect for other activities as they also insulate from warmth and sound.
The doors are designed with separate door panels, which ensure smooth operation irrespective of whether your garage door is automatic or manual. Doors that come with modifiable track rollers improve reliability and operation while also makes the doors perfectly suitable for automation. Furthermore, since they do not stick out of the door when opening or closing, it allows you to park your car right up to the garage door on both outside and inside.
The doors are also highly durable. Most doors are manufactured from galvanized steel and are polyester primer coated, which gives them a resistant surface finish to weathering aspects with standard maintenance. The hollow floor sealing strips and discrete sealing strips can be used to cover up small uneven flooring irregularities on your garage.
The other important aspect every door must address is the security concern and these garage doors are designed to provide extremely high security levels. The doors provide the maximum security possible to your cars and electronics as they are sturdy enough.
How to measure your garage for sectional doors installation
The ideal way to fit the door to your garage depends on the amount of space available but it can be fit between the opening itself or on the inside face of the opening. Fitting on the inside face of the opening wall is highly preferred as it offers maximum amount of drive through height and width available. Fitting on the opening reduce the amount of drive through height and width but it enables you to fit a door where inside space is limited.
It is also important to note that these doors are designed to standard sizes and thus, you might unlikely find the door that exactly matches your garage requirement requiring you to work out the nearest fitting door. The door’s headroom and sideroom are very essential in your measurement calculations as they will guide you on whether or not to have fit on the inside face or on between the opening.
You should measure from the edge of your garage opening wall and repeat the measurement on both sides of the opening. For arched openings, you should measure from the top of the arch to the ceiling while for the headroom; you should measure from the top of the opening to the ceiling.