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Most of our garage doors and openers are smart, allowing you to connect to and operate your door from an app on your smartphone or tablet. Smart garage door openers help keep you connected and protected. For the ultimate convenience, you can open and close your door, or set up alerts to know when it’s been opened, no matter where you are.

Don’t underestimate the dangers because broken garage door broken springs can kill. Now that garage door use torsion springs, you don’t hear as much about people dying because of them. Manufacturers made torsion springs with a central metal shaft around them. That doesn’t mean they come without risk because someone inexperienced with garage door should still never work with the springs.

R-value describes the capacity of insulation. The higher the R-value, the better able the insulation is at maintaining temperature. Garage doors with a higher R-value will provide greater energy efficiency than doors with a low R-value. Basic doors have an R-value of 0.0 with no insulation. The first step up gives you 1-3/8” insulation with a 6.5 rating. Next, a 1-3/8” thickness with Intellicore insulation has a 12.9 R-value. The best option on the market is the 18.4 R-value, which comes from 2” Intellicore insulation.

Carriage style garage doors were around before cars were even invented. … They would store them in a barn with doors that would swing out wide enough so the carriages would fit. Hence the name, carriage garage doors. In today’s day and age, people love the classic and traditional look on their homes.

Like many, you probably think all garage door openers are built to be equal. This is not the case, though. You can look to add $150 to $300 onto the total cost of your project by including a door opener when you replace the garage door. Depending on the garage door opener you select, you can think about adding a final $50 to the bill. That $50 would go toward a secure automatic opener. These are the best types of garage door openers to get. They keep you and your family safe from any break-ins through the garage.