Things to Consider When Buying Garage Doors

!±8± Things to Consider When Buying Garage Doors

When you purchase a garage door you want to get the best value. After all, you're putting out a good amount of cash, and you want to know you're getting the best for the amount you are spending. Probably, you've looked at brochures from several companies, talked with friends and neighbors about their experiences with different car port door companies, and maybe even checked out some garage door companies on the Internet.

Armed with all this information, you select the garage gate you think is best for your needs, choose the three garage door companies you believe offer the most reliable service, and request estimates. But when those estimates come back to you, you can't believe what you are seeing. The estimates for installation of the same door are: 00, 00, 50. There is a difference of 0 between the lowest estimate and the highest estimate. These are estimates for the same door from the same manufacturer, all having the same limited lifetime warranty. How can the price differ by 0?

Before I answer that question, I want to ask you a question. Did you think about the parts that make the door go up and down -- the springs, the rollers, the pulleys? These parts cause the garage gateway to function, but they are not necessarily covered under the same warranty as the door. Each garage doorway company can purchase the same door from a manufacturer, and then select the other parts. It is the difference in the quality of the parts that creates the difference in the three estimates you received

You can tell which parts are best because storage garage parts are tested. After testing, the garage gate way parts are rated by cycles. One garage doorway cycle represents the opening and closing of the door one time. When a garage door is rated at 5000 cycles, you can expect the door to open and close 5000 times before it fails. 5000 may sound like a lot of cycles, but when you do the math, you might decide otherwise.

In an average home, a garage entry door completes three cycles daily. 3 cycles times 365 days each year equals 1,095 cycles per year. In other words, it is expected that a garage door outfitted with parts rated at 5000 cycles is likely to fail before you have owned it for five years. A door equipped with parts rated at 10,000 cycles is expected to function consistently for nearly ten years. You can even buy parts that did not fail when they were tested for 80,000 cycles.

Your decision about the car port doorway you wish to buy depends on your future plans. If you plan to sell the home within five years, choose the least expensive door and let the future owner deal with the hassle of replacing the non-functioning parts. If you plan to live in your home for a longer time, you may wish to pay more, knowing your garage door is not going to fail within five years.