Are you looking to make the most of your home space? Many people, when doing so, consider utilizing their garage as a place to do their laundry. This is ideal for clean garages, as well as garages with insulation and climate control – since when drying heavy fabrics like bed sheets, it can increase the humidity. Here’s some excellent tips from the garage door installation experts here at Garage Door Repair Chicago on how to turn your garage into a laundry room!
Here at Garage Door Repair Chicago, we deal with a ton of different type of metallic garage doors. You might be wondering what the difference is between insulated and uninsulated garage doors. Many garage doors available today are built of galvanized steel, and many others are made with aluminium panels or glazed aluminium extrusions; ranging from between one and two inches, and coming with or without insulation.
Did you hear a sudden loud noise from your garage that was reminiscent of fireworks? You might notice when you check it out, that the spring on the garage door is suddenly bisected into two pieces. You might guess it’s not too difficult to repair, but in fact, repairing garage springs is a dangerous operation that should only be attempted by professionals. A garage door’s full weight is passed through it’s included spring system, a weight that can range between a hundred and twenty five to three-hundred pounds – serious weight that’s no joke. Here’s a guide from the garage repair experts here at Garage Door Repair Chicago on garage springs, and what exactly makes their repair such a technically difficult operation.
The vast majority of garage door openers at homes get installed above the door’s center, in ‘trolley bar’ style. Another newer type of garage door opener, Jackshifts, get installed on one door’s side, but is more widely used in commercial contexts. A more current door construction trend is constructing them with high garage ceilings, even higher than that of the garage door. Here’s a guide to these unique garage door openers, ideal for commercial settings, as written by the garage door opener installation experts here at Garage Door Repair Chicago.
