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You count on your garage door each and every day. It’s the one thing that stands between your valuable vehicles and the elements, and the one thing that can be moved to allow your car access to the outside world. So when it doesn’t open with your conventional control methods, it sure can be frustrating! Nobody likes their day-to-day routine grinding to a halt.
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On our garage door installation blog, we talk a lot about the importance of residential garage doors to day-to-day life—and for good reason! Few homeowners truly appreciate how hard-working these appliances are. But when it comes to your commercial business, garage doors are just as important, if not moreso; they play an active role in your bottom line. After all, without efficiency and reliability, how are your workers to get to stored goods or unload trucks? How, then, are they to get their jobs done on time?
Insulation is a big buzzword here in Minnesota—as it should be! Our winters are frigid, our summers boiling, and our springs and falls too neatly in the middle to be comfortable either way. We buy insulated coats, make sure our attics are properly insulated, and carry our drinks around in insulated bottles. So why don’t more people in this state have insulated garage doors?
Though a garage door may look like a simple mechanism—how much complexity does it take to mechanically raise and lower something, really?—it’s made of a variety of moving parts, each integral to its functioning. Your garage door springs, for example, help shoulder the weight of the heavy door, and your garage door cables hold the two together.
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