Archive for July, 2010

Modern Garage Doors – Styles and Functions

Thursday, July 22nd, 2010

Modern garage doors will benefit any residential, commercial or industrial application. They come in elegant and classy styles and designs that they will remain a timeless addition to your home exterior. They can be sectional, carriage house, raised panel or rollup style. And the ideas to further enhance the doors are just endless. For example, you can opt to place windows on the door to allow natural light to get into the garage while at the same time, make your door appealing to look at.

There is a wide array of modern doors offered by online retailers such as Clopay, Amarr, Lowes, Home Depot and Sears. Prices vary depending on the materials, styles, colors, sizes and finishes.

Model 9800 Sonoma Design:

The Sonoma design from Wayne-Dalton is constructed from fiberglass and available in many colors, including cherry, Honduran mahogany, oak, walnut, mahogany, green, white, clay, gray and red oak. This door looks like an authentic real wood when in fact the outer surface is made of fiberglass. The graining process is excellent, courtesy of the AccuGrain technology. It creates a look of a natural wood texture, appearance and pattern. This model is the best replacement for traditional garage doors because of its pinch resistant design and 7.6 R-value. It features vertical, v-groove and horizontal panels.

Garage Door (DG 001) from Jinhua Winsml Enterprise Ltd.:

The door has steel rib at the exterior of the panel. This industrial door comes with one set of door panels and accessories, including open opener, rails, tracks, hinges, shafts, seals, angles, springs and brackets. The steel thickness is 0.0326cm while the panel thickness is 40mm. The panel comes in white color.

Garage Door (GD2010) from Qingdao Shengjiale Co. Ltd.:

This garage door is constructed from color sheet steel. The interior and exterior of the door is wood grain finish. The door is also rustproof and a paint of baked-on polyester which give you an option to repaint. The 40mm door is insulated due to the injected polyurethane foam which ensures a high thermal capacity R-16 rating.

The solid mechanical overlap makes sure that the door remains tight whatever the weather condition is. The joint also prevents delamination. Product hardware includes flexible bottom weather seas, 14-gauge reinforcement steel plates, handles, electric opener attachments and hinges. The door also comes with heavy-duty and premium commercial hardware such s the galvanized 14-gauge steel rails with ten ball bearings.

Cotswold Side Hung Garage Door 7′ x 7′:

This door is finished in gloss white glass reinforced polyester, thus does not require maintenance and repair. It comes with Euro-style lock with multi-point latching and white steel frame that is prefitted. The frame comes with 38mm heads and 50mm jambs.

Chinfine Garage Door (CF-GD001):

This door is constructed with rustproof steel plates with filling in between for superior strength. All the hardware and tracks that come with this door are treated and coated to make them rustproof and super strong. The advanced sealing design of the door helps prevent sand, wind and rain from getting inside the garage.

Apache and Rawhide Series:

This steel sectional garage door series has a vintage design to give your home a decorative touch. The exterior is wood grain embossed with raised panel design. It features 2 inches thick of uninsulated steel structure, giving you exceptional value, beauty and durability.

Posted in Garage Doors | No Comments »

Tips on Buying Wooden Front Doors

Thursday, July 22nd, 2010

Exterior wood doors still considered as the most favoured material for making doors all over the world, since it is elegant and has natural warmth. Your choice of wooden door depends a lot on your likings, the place where the house is, the total architecture of the house and the finally your budget allocated for this reason. Some of the useful tips are given here that will guide you while choosing your exterior wood doors.

  • Wood doors are available in a large number of colours, designs, styles and sizes.  The wooden door can be of a variety of material. This can be teak, mahogany, oak, chestnut, pine, walnut, fir and even cherry wood for that matter. Of the various types you can choose from the panelled one to the solid wooden door to one that has glass inset. A wooden door with panel made of stained glass allows in light. However, make sure that the colours of the stained glass are in sync with the colours of your house. When the designs are concerned, you can choose from a wide range that ranges from the Georgian, Victorian and also the era of the Tudor. Some are highly gorgeous while others have a minimalist look.
  • Most of the front doors have one of the following styles. They are usually single acting doors that are hinged on one side and open in one direction only. Again there are bi-fold doors that have two panels which folds in the middle. This style of door is applicable in places that have wider door space. The third kind is the sliding door which is popular with glass inserts.
  • The most important thing you need to be firm with is to choose a door that blends well with the complete look of your home. Your door is the first thing that a person notices. Thus your front door should cast a good impression on the visitors. Some people regard this as a style statement and a reflection of the lifestyle of who live inside the house.
  • However there are some facts about the wood door which you should know. The wooden doors are prone to damage by extreme weather that includes temperature variation, frost, rain and humidity. Wood is also susceptible to termite attacks, warps and cracks. This is the reason why the exterior wood door maintenance is necessary.

With Feng Shui and Vastu Shastra being popular worldwide these days, people are now aware of the various ways how the energy of a house can be increased and how to utilise it to the maximum. According to the Feng Shui principals, the front door should not made of a transparent or translucent material like the front door made of glass. The exterior wood door is greatly recommended keeping in mind the concept of security and safety. Again colours like green and red are extremely auspicious for the front doors. Hope these tips prove helpful while choosing the perfect type of wood front doors for your home.

Posted in Wood Garage Doors | No Comments »

How to Paint Your Steel Overhead Doors

Thursday, July 22nd, 2010

Usually there are two basic concerns when painting your steel overhead doors is concerned. First thing is that you should make sure to use the apposite sort of undercoat and topcoat. These are necessary since you might have adhesion problems, which might lead to flaking and chipping over the time. Again since metal like steel is non-porous and slick, doing it by oneself can be tough and producing a finish with professional look can be tough also. Again painting your overhead steel doors give you the added difficulty of functioning against gravity and that might lead to some splatters and messy drips.

Here are some steps, tips and warnings that you might helpful while working on your steel overhead doors.

Step 1

Begin with spreading plastic drop cloth underneath your steel overhead doors and lay heavy-duty fabric drop cloths over the plastic drop cloth.

Step 2

Now using a metal putty knife or a coarse sand paper scrape away all the loose and peeling paint from your steel doors.

Step 3

With 80- to 120-grit sandpaper remove any of the remaining bits of loose paint. You can also use a power sander to remove bits persistent traces of your old paint.

Step 4

Now with a tack clothe wipe down the steel overhead doors.

Step 5

Any area of the door that you do not wish to paint, remember to cover it using the blue painter’s tape.

Step 6

Remember to apply alkyd metal primer to your steel overhead doors with a 4-inch oil-based paintbrush. At first apply only a thin coat in order to prevent any splattering and dripping and then allow the surface to dry for about two hours.

Step 7

Now clean the brushes with a mineral spirit.

Step 8

With the help of a 4-inch oil-based paintbrush apply polyurethane enamel. Again apply thin coat and never try to cover the door in one single coat.

Step 9

Allow two hours time for the paint to dry, and then apply the additional coats until your door is covered completely.

Tips

  • Since an amateur painter over-applies paint in the finishing coats he ends up with brushstrokes. If you apply several thin coats instead of one or two thick coats you can avoid having the brushstrokes. All it needs is patience and the look of your door will be enhanced greatly.
  • If you are painting a door that has not been painted before, you will need an etching primer to scrape the steel. This is an important step to promote paint adhesion, and if you skip this chipping and peeling over the time will be inevitable.

Warnings

  • The overhead steel doors are ill famed for dripping paint. Make sure that you do not use the plastic drop cloths alone, since it makes the paint to pool up. The same way, the heavy-duty fabric drop cloth will help in soaking the paint.
  • Again if you use a stepladder, always follow the safety instructions.

These are some simple steps that will prove quite helpful while painting your overhead steel door.

Posted in Steel Garage Doors | No Comments »

How does a Garage Door Remotes Work

Thursday, July 22nd, 2010

Garages are a place where you park your vehicle. And opening and closing the heavy garage door from outside without even touching it would be just great. But did you ever felt curious about how this is possible. You just push one button in the remote control and the giant like door opens up. The technology behind this is quite simple and quite easy to understand. The mechanism and working of the remote is simple and you would be fascinated to learn about how it works and how you can benefit from it and how you can handle a situation if the door calls for repair.

Similar to all the other remote technologies, the devices that are specialised for operating the garage doors or garage door remotes are hold as the remote-keyless entry. Some of the gadgets key rings are also provided with a function the locks and unlock the car doors again some also have control car alarms for your safety and security reasons. The garage door remote and the remote-controlled home security systems all are categorised in one general security category.

Although simple a garage door remote might seem to you, this device actually acts as a radio transmitter and the receiver is its counterpart. The counterpart or the second piece of the device is usually located under the ceiling of your garage. Probably you will find the comprehension rather easy and their interaction simple to understand.

The counterpart or the receiver is usually a small box that receives the radio signal from the transmitter or your remote. This signal is generated when you push the button on your remote device. If your door is closed the signal will open it and if it is open the signal will close it.

When the garage remotes were making their first appearance there were several issues with their functioning. Opening the garage of your neighbour with your remote was quite common during the initial days. However, this had a grave problem with security and privacy of the homeowners. The manufacturers did some adjustment with the frequency of the radio signals to fix this problem.

Frequency is the vibration rate of a radio or any other types of vibration of the waves at a specific rate. The waves that have higher frequencies have shorter wavelengths. This means that a radio signal with higher frequency will be able to communicate with its receiver more accurately. This is the reason why you are now able to open and close only the garage they wish to operate.

The operation and the mechanism of a garage door remote can be quite easy to understand. The garage door remote involves a lot more than just pressing a button, however a little explanation makes it easy to understand. Although having knowledge is not necessary at all, you might just find it useful and also discover that knowledge in radio waves beforehand helps in your understanding. Since this is a technology that is utilized by many people everyday, this can help you very well in understanding the simple mechanism that is making your daily life so easy.

Posted in Garage Doors Services | No Comments »