How To Weatherproof Your Garage Door
With California's ever-changing climate, proper care for your garage door is essential to long-term enjoyment, especially throughout these colder winter months. To ensure you're getting the most out of your garage, we're bringing you our best tips for weatherproofing your door this winter.
Weather Sealing 101
If you've chosen to forgo regular maintenance checks, chances are you'll need to winterize your garage space to ensure low indoor heating costs. Adding weather stripping to your garage door is an effective method to keep warm air in and cold air out.
Here are five ways to ensure your door is winter-ready:
1) inspect Weatherstripping & Reseal Problem Areas
Your average garage door endures harsh weather conditions and continuous opening and closing that can wear down the weather stripping — ultimately causing it to crack or break. Take a moment to inspect the weather stripping on your garage door and note any cracked, torn, ripped areas or dirt and wind creeping in. These signs indicate it's time for new weather stripping.
2) Install a Threshold.
Products like “Stormshield” (an angled PVC threshold) can be epoxied to the garage floor surface, right where your door meets the floor, reducing the intrusion of water, dirt, leaves and critters. While no barrier is ever completely impermeable, Stormshield is an easy way to further weatherize almost any garage.
3) Make Sure Moving Parts are Operating Correctly
The rollers, hinges, and tracks must operate seamlessly for an overhead door to work. However, when it gets cold, metal contracts, potentially resulting in your door's rollers becoming brittle and breaking. When this happens, chilly drafts and wet weather can easily seep in.
4) Install an Automated Door Opener
Forgetting to shut the garage door happens to the best of us. When left open, you expose your home to the elements and allow cold air to rush in. Installing an automated garage door opener versus a manual one is an easy way to prevent those forgetful moments. For example, many newer garage door opener models give you the ability to open and close your door remotely from an App and alert you when your door has opened. Newer models integrate a camera with video, allowing you to secure and monitor your garage anytime.
At Consolidated, our team will work alongside trusted manufacturers to install high-quality automotive equipment and conduct regular maintenance services, ensuring your door runs smoothly.
5) Consider a New Sectional Door
Lastly, your old garage door might simply be worn out beyond repair and need to be replaced with a new, more energy-efficient model. A sectional door is vastly more weather tight versus a one-piece door. Visit our showroom to shop our selection of high-quality steel, wood, aluminum, glass, and custom-fabricated garage doors. Our qualified team is here to help you through the process from start to installation.
Quality Insulation For Every Season
Purchasing an insulated door is another great option for year-round enjoyment. Insulation is designed to keep heat from escaping in the winter and hot air from entering in the summer — resulting in lower utility costs and more comfortable garage use year-round!
When purchasing an insulated door, customers often have two options: Polystyrene (lower insulation value) or Polyurethane (higher insulation value). A Consolidated team member will consider your needs and budget and help you decide which option is best for your home.
We’re Here To Help
We know that when you purchase a garage door, you're investing in the look, feel, and function of your home. Our team is here to help choose a door you’ll love coming home to. Consolidated technicians are knowledgeable about the products they install and are tedious in their technique to ensure your garage door continues to function for years to come.
Looking to get your door winter-ready? Our seasoned team is qualified to service and perform routine maintenance on all garage door and gate models. Contact us today for all of your garage door and gate needs.