Garage Doors Basics

Choose the most appropriate garage doors for your business

By Casey Holley
Finding the most appropriate garage doors for your business can prove to be a daunting task. They are available in numerous types with various features. Taking the time to compare garage doors, including features, ensures that you will choose a door that meets all your needs.

When you contact any garage door installation business, keep the following garage doors basics in mind:

1. Determine if rolling garage doors are an appropriate choice for your business.

2. Consider sectional garage doors if you need to outfit multiple bays.

3. Invest in specialty garage doors if your business needs features not available on basic garage doors.

 

Choose rolling garage doors

Rolling garage doors are ideal for businesses that have room along the ceiling of the bay or work area. These doors use a system of tracks to open and close. Because of this, these garage doors can open all the way to the ceiling. Some rolling doors feature an internal rolling track, meaning that the door rolls up into a casing instead of a long track on the ceiling.
Try: Overhead Door Company sells a varied selection of rolling garage doors, including half length models for counters or to use with lift gates. Raynor has a varied selection of commercial garage doors, including doors with break away bottoms. This company offers garage door information to help you choose the most appropriate door for your needs.

Pick sectional garage doors

Sectional garage doors are useful for service businesses, such as automobile repair shops or delivery businesses. These doors are sectional garage doors because they are all interlinked. In most cases, each door can open independently of the other doors, if desired.
Try: Clopay Building Products offers a varied selection of sectional garage doors. This company offer detailed garage door info on all its products. American Garage Door Supply is a garage door online store that sells commercial garage doors, including corrosion resistant doors.

Consider specialty garage doors

Specialty garage doors are ideal for certain types of businesses. High wind rated doors are good for service bays in windy locations. Insulated garage doors are ideal for food delivery businesses that need to maintain a constant temperature regardless of weather conditions outside. Fire proof and fire resistant doors are a good choice for factories, such as glass factories, that use high heat.
Try: Albany Door Systems and Wayne Dalton are garage door manufacturers. Albany Door Systems has a varied selection of specialty garage doors. This company offers high traffic and cold storage doors. Wayne Dalton has interior and exterior specialty garage doors, including models for self-storage businesses.

 

  • Measure the area for which you need a garage door prior to getting price quotes. You need to know the width, height and depth of the door space, as well as the space available for the track or casing. Knowing this information helps you to get accurate price quotes, especially if you plan to buy garage doors online.
  • Prior to buying a garage door, review the fire codes and other building codes in your area for your type of business. Some areas specify the types of garage doors certain businesses must use.