If you are buying a home or building a new home, you may be wondering how big your garage actually is. For example, how wide is a two-car garage? It is important to know if the space will be able to hold both of your vehicles and some of your belongings or if you will…
Are you planning on building a garage? Perhaps you are considering building a new home and are wondering how big of a garage you need. One key factor to consider is the size of the garage door. For example: How tall is a garage door? Knowing the exact dimensions will ensure that you have the…
What’s an average garage size? This seemingly basic question deserves a bit of a comprehensive answer. Your garage is an important part of your home. Not only does it provide a space for you to safely park your vehicles, but it also has space for storage and possibly even a work area. What do you…
Why do garage doors need springs? Why are they so crucial to the proper functioning of a garage door? Good questions — the answers to which will become apparent as we go over this topic together. Your garage door plays a key role in the overall functionality and aesthetic of your home. In other words,…
Although this wasn’t always the case, having an attached garage to the home is the norm. They provide security for your car, extra storage space, workbench, and more. When it comes to those house hunting TV shows, almost everyone wants to know about garage space, either for their cars or their toys. But not all…
There are obvious reasons why your garage door keeps opening when trying to close, including something blocking the sensors at the bottom of the tracks. This is a safety feature, not a flaw, obviously. You don’t want something–or somebody–getting crushed by the door as it tries to close. The photo eye sensors send signals to…
Garages are a standard feature on most homes built in the past sixty years and even longer. And, in a sense, there have always been garages, only they housed horses instead of horsepower. In the years following World War II, homes with attached or detached garages became the norm as car ownership proliferated. Today, garages…
Automatic doors and garage door remotes are great conveniences that make life simpler. Who wants to get out of the car, run through the weather and mess with a manual door? Unfortunately, there’s another group that enjoys easy access to a home garage. Yes, you guessed it. We’re talking about thieves. They are often known…
Living in the Pacific Northwest, we are at the whim of Mother Nature nine months out of the year. An enjoyable Spring picnic can be ruined with just a few drops of rain. The threat of snow can close down schools for days. Ice will snarl freeways for hours. Even for hardy Pacific Northwesterners, a…
Although it the single largest moving part of your home and may take up more than 40 percent of the front-facing portion of your home, you probably don’t give your garage door much thought. Even during the design stage of a new garage door, you pick a color, a panel system, window placement. Once everything…
A broken garage door can be dangerous, especially a garage door that has a broken spring. The spring system, often referred to as a torsion spring, counteracts the weight of the door – sometimes weighing 400 pounds or more! Without this spring, the door has nothing to support its weight. Garage door openers aren’t built…
Your garage door is an important part of your home that you use daily. It can be very inconvenient if it stops opening, closing, or has some other malfunction. If your garage door binds when opening, you might be wondering what could be wrong with it and how it can be fixed. Here is some…
