According to a study, 71% of homeowners agrees that upon installing a garage door or replacing the old one at their home, it increased its overall value.If assessed by real estate agents, the estimated price of your home can increase up to 1% or 4% of the original price. Furthermore, garage door supplies protection and security against unpredictable weather conditions. Insulated garage doors nowadays assist us in saving energy.However, automatic garage doors are somehow related to injuries, or worst death. Although there are several garage door system maintenance duties that you on your own can and may carry out routinely, there are still tasks such as parts replacements and installations that are better done by experts.

If you have children at home, it is better to educate them beforehand that garage doors and its opener are not playthings. There had been reports that at least 85 children suffered permanent brain injuries or even death since the year 1974 in the United States and these are all related to accidents involving automatic garage doors. Upon the investigation of the circumstances, it shows that these are both caused by faulty design or by the kids using the openers. A lot of these mishap happened when little kids plays with the main control of the doors or when they are trapped under the closing garage doors that failed to automatically reverse. If your garage door fails to reverse, we suggest that you disconnect the openers and operate the doors manually until your openers are fixed.