• Choosing the Right Garage Door Company for Your Home

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    The right garage door company can help tailor its services to suit your particular needs to enhance your home’s security, functionality, and curb appeal. You need the services of a professional company when installing a new garage door or upgrading it for improved security and energy efficiency. Here are key tips to guide you in choosing the right garage door company:

    Provided Services

    Choose a garage door company that offers installations, safety inspections, and repairs. Expert installation of your garage door comes with a variety of benefits, including enhanced safety, energy efficiency, and property value. You may need professional safety inspections and repair services if your garage door has issues like:

    • Sluggish operation
    • Broken cables and springs
    • Dented or damaged panels
    • Off-track or misaligned doors
    • Noisy operation
    • Broken openers

    Available Products

    A company offering multiple products helps you access a variety of features, such as garage door designs and openers. Professional companies can install garage door openers that feature smart technologies like real-time notifications, smartphone integration, and remote access for enhanced security and convenience. A variety of garage design options may also help enhance your home’s customization and convenience.

    Types of Garage Door Designs

    Some garage door options a professional company may provide include:

    • Classic raised panel
    • Insulated
    • Traditional
    • Custom
    • Contemporary
    • Carriage house

    Classic raised-panel options offer versatility and flexibility because of their ability to suit various home styles. They’re also available in various material compositions; these include composite materials, steel, or wood. Their raised panels give them a structured and clean appeal that can match your home’s architectural design and give it a timeless design. To achieve a home with enhanced energy efficiency, better soundproofing, or less noise from outside, choose insulated garage doors.

    Traditional garage doors made of steel can enhance your home’s safety because of their sturdiness and durability. Steel garage doors are able to withstand harsh weather, warping, and rust, which makes them easy to maintain. If you want a garage door tailored to match your home’s style or aesthetic, choose custom options. Their variety of finishes, designs, and materials can help enhance your home’s architectural details.

    For homes with minimalist and modern designs,  contemporary garage doors are ideal options. These doors come with additional features like large windows or a steel and glass combination. The features help give the garage doors a streamlined appeal and can also allow more light into your garage. Carriage house garage doors combine custom and contemporary options through their rustic designs, varied material compositions, and decorative features such as windows and hardware.

    Hire a Reliable Garage Door Company

    Choosing the right company for your garage door services promotes a seamless experience due to its expertise, convenience, and efficiency. A reliable company should keep you well-informed at every installation or repair stage, and prevent any problems throughout your project. Professionals may also explain technical garage door-related details. Professional garage door services can help elevate your home’s security and energy efficiency. If you need expert repairs, installations, and upgrades, reach out to a garage door company today.

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  • Architectural Salvage V: Turning Trash Into Treasure

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    From Kaleena Cote at Yankee magazine comes this article on everyone's favorite weekend pastime, bargain-hunting at architectural salvage yards:

    Home salvage yards are like garage sales. Once you find that hidden treasure, the whole trip becomes worthwhile. For more than two decades, homeowners have searched for treasure at Vermont Salvage, an architectural Warehouse For Lease that has stores in White River Junction, Vermont, and Manchester, New Hampshire. Doors, windows, appliances – items that have outlived the houses and buildings they used to grace – fill each warehouse, much of it tagged with bargain prices.

    Bargains are what I’m after on a damp and dreary February afternoon as I drive up to the half-brick, half-concrete Vermont
    Salvage store in Manchester. Old toilets, tubs, and trash lie out in the yard, as well as a few abandoned vehicles and an old rusting trailer, while a few red spray-painted squiggles splatter the sides of the building. The place looks as if it needs to be salvaged itself.

    But inside, it’s easy to see why people enjoy searching through the rows of different colored doors, walking past the pastel pink and yellow toilets, and toying with the little trinkets ranging from outlet faces to small brass hooks for hanging clothes. The place has character, and the employees there are eager to please. They're not the in-your-face “buy this now” types of salesmen; they let the customers browse freely. At the same time, they're willing to help and offer suggestions. Just ask.

    Read the full article and see pictures at Yankee magazine’s site. They’ve also compiled a good list of New England salvage firms and shops, which follows the article.