Time to replace your Twin Lakes garage door?

Have a little fun and choose a garage door you’ll like

The bad news is that your Twin Lakes garage door has given up the ghost. It’s weathered beyond functionality. It’s broken, bandaged and ready to be abandoned. Hopefully, your garage door opener isn’t past its prime, too. But it’s a good idea to check with a trusted garage door technician who isn’t determined to sell you whatever they can. 

Once you’ve accepted the bad news, it’s time to consider some good news. The good news is ‘You Have Choices.’

You can choose to replace your garage door with a flat, white garage door – the simplest and most straightforward choice you can make. But you’ve still made a choice. As long as you’re making a choice, one way or the other, why not have some fun with the decision.

Garage doors come in a variety of styles and materials. Some are insulated. Some aren’t. 

Insulated or not, garage doors come in the following materials:

• Metal
• Aluminum
• Fiberglass
• Vinyl
• Wood
• A Wood Composite
• PVC

Some garage doors have windows. Some have molding. Of course, they also come in different levels of quality. That’s often apparent with the price of the garage door.

In terms of quality, certainly, you want a garage door that will last. You want a garage door that will stand up to the weather. In these regards, once again, check with that trusted garage door technician. They have experience with garage doors and can, most likely, tell you which doors experience the most problems that the technicians are called upon to fix.

Beyond quality, however, you also want to consider the ambience of your new garage door. What style fits your garage and home the best? What color works best? 

With some materials, such as a vinyl garage door, the color on the surface is the color of the material throughout. In such a case, if you scratch the garage door, you won’t expose the color of the subsurface material. Scratches are less apparent.

Some garage door materials are easier to paint. They designed to be painted. You may want to take a sample of the trim color of your Twin Lakes home to the paint store and have them set you up with paint that matches precisely. 

We all hope that our garage doors will last indefinitely. Reality is that, while a good garage door will last a very long time, as a thing mechanical, we can’t expect them to last forever. As long as you’re replacing your Twin Lakes garage door, why not make the most of it?