Garage Door Maintenance Tips And Tricks

Garage door can take up between 25% and 40% of the facade of your home and provides an important first impression to your guests. If you are considering selling your home, maintaining your garage door will increase the value of your residence. Routine maintenance of your garage door can keep it working properly and ensure your home looks it’s absolute best.

Keep it Clean

Cleaning your garage door may seem pretty obvious, but it is one of the more frequently overlooked areas of the exterior of your home. Warm soapy water and a clear water rinse will work to clean most dirt and grime from the interior and exterior of the door.

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Common Problems With Older Garage Doors

Garage doors have many qualities going for them: they are simultaneously functional and provide curb appeal; keep our garages and their contents safe from the elements, and can add value to our homes. But like many workhorse parts of our homes, we don’t give our garage doors much thought until something goes seriously wrong with them. To avoid hazards and costly repairs, be mindful of these common problems.

                        

A Brief History of Garage Doors

While Richards-Wilcox Doors has been around since 1912, it might be hard to imagine a time when garage doors were not a common part of our Canadian homes. Many people take their garages and garage doors for granted. Almost three-quarters of homes in Canada today have a garage and garage door as part of their home.

There was a time when houses did not have garages or need them at all. Can you guess when this was? It was prior to the invention of the automobile! Before the automobile, people had barns where they kept their horses and carriages. The door on their barns was often a carriage-style door which swung outwards instead of upwards, like the overhead doors we use today.

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