Curb Appeal - Garage Doors

January 18, 2012


If you are tuned into your car radio you hear a lot of ads - restaurants, loans, and of late, garage doors.


Vendors of garage doors seem to be offering sales to start the new year. Garage doors come in many styles and in more colors than just the basic white and off-white. They have become an attractive addition to a homes curb appeal. The lift-up garage doors of the 1950s through the 1970s have gone out of style. No more do garage doors have those huge springs that if they got too old would snap and sometimes damage any contents in your garage.


Once electric garage door openers became a common installation, the roll up doors also became more desirable. Buyers consider these new roll up doors a definite plus for any home.


It is now mandatory that electric garage door openers have sensors that cause the door to stop descending and automatically reverse if the door touches anything. No longer to objects or persons get squelched by a descending door. Also, no longer does the door get crunched when it encounters a sold body.


A new garage door and a new opener are definitely worth the investment which should generally be under $600. If you google "garage doors" you can find where your local dealers are and what kind of incentives they might be offering.