Category Archives: Garage

Spring Garage Cleaning Time

You will officially know it’s time to clean out the garage when you start parking your vehicle outside of the garage! Everything that would not fit in your basement has made it’s way to the garage area. This space is very valuable for many people who do not have an outside storage facility. Creating a more efficient use of this space will enhance the area considerably. Organizing the items that have piled up over time in the garage will free up extra space for a more beneficial use.

1) Put an advertisement in the newspaper that you are having a yard sale or garage sale. Open the garage door and remove all the clutter and items that you don’t use or need anymore and sell it for extra money to buy new and improved organizational supplies. This eliminates having to restore unused items back into the garage.

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How to Select the Right Garage Door

Most people never give their garage door much of a thought. It goes up, and it comes down. As long as this happens without problems, the old faithful door is taken for granted. Occasionally, a rock or baseball my shatter a window, but to consider purchasing an entire garage door is often a once in a lifetime occurrence for people who are not home builders. For the rank and file homeowner, the purchase of a new garage door can be a big deal. With a little guidance, this should not be life changing experience.

Determine what size door that is needed.

Garage doors come in only a few sizes that are in common use. So, this part of the effort is not too tough to wade through. Do you need a door for a single car or a double car opening? Dig out the tape measure and find out what size the current or previous door was and match it. You probably ought to measure both the height and the width of the door just in case you go to some store that offers specialty sizes of doors. Most of the time, just knowing the width is enough.

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