The nowadays garage doors are completely different from the ones that were in vogue 50 years ago. This is not related to the cars size, but to the evolution of technology when it comes to construction materials and to automation devices. Automatic openers just made our lives easier as drivers and not only. Do you remember the times when you had to touch a button on the TV set to switch it on and off?

As construction materials have diversified a lot, the garage doors had to keep pace with this progress, so many types of doors were invented. Also the materials are now various, from wood to metal or PVC. Colors and models are so numerous, that house decorators can spend months before choosing the most suitable option.

There are four main types of garage doors: overhead, roller, sectional and two-sided swing hung doors. Every particular model of doors has indications and counter-indications, depending on the surrounding elements of your house. People can choose after evaluationg all factors which affect the proper operation of the door.

What makes the roller garage doors one of the favorite types across the world is the fact that they need so little space to open, that you can use them in very tight spaces. A roller door is made of little, narrow pieces of material bound together and rolling just like the window shutters in a special case above the door.

Overhead doors are based on swinging vertically to open. They are nice and easy to operate, but they require room in front of the garage as well as inside the garage itself. You have to make sure nothing stays in the way, or the door won’t open properly.

If you don’t have so much space, but you don’t want roller garage doors, you can choose sectional doors, because they function on the same mechanism. The only difference is that the door is made of bigger chunks of material, which can make them look better. Everything else, like the springs and the opener stay the same.

If you live in a kind of a mansion, with a huge garden, then a swing hung door can be the most suitable for your garage. There are garage door manufacturers which produce real state of the art doors based on this operating principle. You’ve seen such doors in all classical movies.