Residential Garage Door Installations
Though the garage
doors you see around may look similar at the first sight, these doors have
their own features that distinguishes one from the other. This difference is
more seen when it comes to comparing the garage doors used for commercial
purposes and residential purposes. In determining the right garage door application
for your residential garage door installation, it’s necessary to
become familiar with the difference between a residential and a commercial
application.
Understanding the requirements
for and the usage of residential and commercial garage doors clearly helps
define the differences between them. Watch an industrial (i.e. commercial)
garage door being used compared to a residential door and it becomes apparent
that both the types have lots of differences and they are of different origin
and are two totally different breeds. The reason for such differences, once
looked at, are obvious and numerous. One fact to be noted is that the
industrial garage doors are opened much more frequently than the residential
ones, which are opened only twice or thrice in a day. Hence, whatever may be
the type of the door, residential or commercial; the industrial ones need to be
stronger and must have the ability to withstand more tension than the residential
ones. If a house is using their garage doors many times a day, then it would be
preferable that such houses have industrial garage doors because the use is
more industrial then residential.
Another point to be
noted here is how many options are needed to enter the garage space. For a
typical home, only a few options are needed to go into and out of the garage
area. With the garage space being used as a workspace, more entrance options
are needed. Recently, residential garages have become bigger, holding more than
one or even two vehicles. Home owners have been building their residential
garage’s to hold 3 or more vehicles and thus, more people have begun to choose
industrial doors for their residential application, owing to the increase in
number of individuals and hence cars, in their household. However, one big
difference between these commercial like residential applications and actual
industrial applications is that the doors aren’t required to be large as in a
commercial application where industrial situations, the doors have very big
gates and great width to hold more vehicles, or more specifically, huge trucks.
Whereas the domestic ones only require smaller gates and smaller widths, owing
to the fact that it is mostly used only for a single car at a time.
Further difference in commercial
compared to residential is the industrial doors are heftier than the
residential and usually require automatic control for the doors. This helps
when the door has to be opened and closed numerous times. Also, when a garage
space is being used under commercial like usage, automatic overhead garage door
openers help manage these hefty doors in a proper and efficient manner. Think
about opening and closing an industrial garage door housing very large vehicles
and trucks several times a day without automatic doors, it would be a very
strenuous job!
