When you pick a garage door, keep aesthetic and practical factors in mind. The door needs to harmonise with the rest of your home, as well as to be practical in terms of space. After installation, it needs to withstand the environment as well. Read on to discover how a roller door satisfies these criteria.
Colour Options
When selecting a door, you need plenty of colour choices so that you can match it to the whole facade. Roller doors come in almost any imaginable hue: cream, blue, red, green, and numerous other colours, with tone variations of many shades. Thus, you can pick up on the roofing or front door hue, for instance, and match that. Sometimes, it's difficult to replicate colours exactly, and you're better off picking a flattering contrasting hue. Alternatively, you could select a darker or lighter shade of an existing colour on the facade, the roof tone, for instance. Take all components into account, including the cladding and trim, and the surrounding landscape. Roller doors are usually powder-coated, a process which bakes and fuses the paint to the metal so it won't chip or flake off.
Saving Space
Roller doors use space very efficiently. They don't swing outwards over the driveway, possibly scratching any parked cars that are too close—or worse still, knocking over a person or pet. Instead, they roll upwards into a neat bundle that sits above the garage opening. Sectional doors, an alternate mechanism, spread across the garage ceiling when open, which prevents you from using this area for overhead storage or lighting. Sliding doors monopolise potential wall storage. Compared to such alternatives, you'll save space with a roller door.
Enduring
These doors use corrugated sheets of steel or aluminium. While steel is often the stronger of the two metals and less likely to dent, this depends on how thick the door is. If you live in a humid environment near the coast or a northern region of Australia, you may be better served with aluminium, which naturally resists rusting.
Steel, however, can undergo a galvanising process that coats it in an anti-corrosive zinc film, and powder coating offers extra protection for all metals—thus steel is also resilient to the elements. Some roller doors use Colorbond steel that features a layer of a zinc/aluminium/ magnesium alloy covered in an additional protective armour of paint, which ensures the door will endure for many years.
Thus, roller doors provide a wide array of colours for you to harmonise it to your home. Plus, they use space efficiently and endure for many years.
For more information on roller doors, reach out to a local garage door service.
Share9 September 2020
Welcome to my blog. My name is Colin, and I work in a library in a small town. As we don't have a lot of patrons, we have a lot of downtime, and I am allowed to read during that time if no shelving needs to be done. Fiction was my first love, but over years at the library, I have delved into a range of other topics, including ones I thought would never interest me. In particular, I have done a lot of reading on garage doors, which is a surprisingly interesting topic. I wanted to create a blog so decided to throw my focus there. I hope you like these tips and ideas on garage doors and that they help you.