Why Your Garage Door is the MVP of Your Home

It’s not the flashiest part of your home, nor does it demand attention. Yet you’d be hard-pressed to find another object or piece of equipment in your home that does more for your overall well-being than your garage door.

Quietly but steadfastly, your garage door endures performance challenges that would likely prove the better of just about anything else in the home. The list of those challenges will likely make you think twice about downplaying your garage door in the future. It should also make you realize just how important it is to have a good garage door doing all that unforgiving work.

Tough Enough

Imagine for a moment if you were pummeled each day by tennis balls, basketballs and whatever other spherical objects that your kids have lying around. Would you still be standing? Your garage door withstands it all, all while dealing with a wide range of weather conditions along the way.

But you don’t just ask your garage door to stand there. You ask it to serve as your best line of defense from burglars or intruders trying to find a weak point in your home’s security. You also depend upon it to keep all that harsh weather from getting into your house so that you can reside in comfort.

Just the Stats

When sportswriters are deciding upon postseason awards, they go to the statistics to defend their choices. We can do the same for garage doors. Consider:

• Up and down, up and down your garage door cycles, to the tune of approximately 25,000 in its lifetime. The human equivalent: Someone would have to scale Mount Everest and its 29,000‑foot (8,500‑meter) altitude 5 times over.
• The heat is always on a garage door. The ultraviolet rays that hit your door on a single day generate enough heat to cook a turkey. The energy from those rays, expanded over 25 years, is roughly equivalent to 55 barrels of gasoline.
• It gets mighty cold too. The difference on a frigid winter day between the air temperature just outside a garage door and that inside of it is approximately 50 degrees Fahrenheit or 25 degrees Celsius. A garage door with an insulation level of R‑16 thereby provides you with protection on these cold days and nights equivalent to three winter coats piled one on another, each an inch thick with Thinsulate insulation.
• Did we mention the wind? A 90‑mph wind hits a garage door sized 12’ X 8’ with the force of a car.

Are You Convinced Yet?

If you haven’t figured it out yet that your garage door is your most valuable player, you might want to go back and read again. And it’s of the utmost importance that you choose a door that’s weathertight and insulated well. Specifically, you should consider Polyurethane insulation as your insulation of choice. Among its many benefits are the ways it keeps out extreme cold and heat, minimizes any sound emanating from outside the garage, and provides stern resistance from any bending.

Are you in need of a new garage door that can stand up to these tests? If so, contact us at 1-866-573-3667. If you join us at our expansive showroom, we can show you exactly what we have to offer in garage doors and how each one matches up to the architecture of your home. You can also request a free online quotation to help estimate pricing.

Our Design Centre also waits at the ready, allowing you to create your own garage door with a few clicks of a mouse. Finally, check out our image gallery for specific garage door ideas.