Help you to Choose Best Material for your Garage Door

There are many features that you would love to consider while choosing material for garage doors. Garage door are available in different types of materials and each material has its own merits and demerits. Compare each material and check, which is best fits according to you, your requirements, and available space.

Here we are providing information about different materials for garage doors.

2. Aluminum Garage Door:

Aluminum garage doors are sleek, lighter, and modern choice in garage doors. It offers many characteristics of steel like long lasting finish. Due to its lightweight, it has denting problem but it put less stain on motor. Aluminum can be anodized, paint, faux wood texturing finish or available in wood grain finish also. It is better insulator than steel. The painting and maintenance cost of aluminum doors are less as compared to mild steel doors. Aluminum doors have less weather effect in comparison of steel doors and there is no rusting problem with aluminum doors. Aluminum doors are little more expensive than mild steel door.

Overview About Aluminum Garage Door:

• Light Weight
• Safe and Secure
• Weather resistant
• Can be finish with paint, wood finish or texture
• More expensive then steel doors
• Better insulation than steel doors
• Corrosion free

3. Wooden Garage Door:

Wood is the oldest and natural material for garage door. Various varieties wood are used for manufacturing of garage door is teak wood, deodar wood, sisham wood and other hardwood such as hollock wood, marandi wood etc. according to availability and cost of wood. The wood used in the garage door should be heart wood not sapwood and it should be kiln seasoned and treated with ant termite chemicals.
The wooden garage door can be finish with any normal paint or textured paint. Wood garage door are normally side-hung doors, it is not practical material for rolling door. Wood garage doors offer various designs and styles. Wood doors needs regular maintenance and painting. Wood is a better insulator than steel and provides better energy conservation.

Overview About Wooden Garage Doors:

• Oldest and natural material
• Attractive and smart
• Can be finished with paint, texture and stains
• Not applicable for roller shutters
• Various design options are there with windows
• Heavy and needs regular maintenance
• Better insulation and energy conservation than other materials 

4. Wood Composites:

Wood composite made from recycled fibers. Wood composite is more cool option for garage doors than solid wood as it is more durable, economical and maintenance. This is equally strong as steel door. It can be finished with paint, textures, and stains.
Composite wood door is not suitable in the extreme conditions of tropical climate area. Composite wood is good choice for interior or any dry location.

Overview About Wood Composite Garage Door:

• Can be finished with paint, stain or textures
• Designing options can be done with windows
• Safe and Secure
• Weather resistant
• Very low maintenance
• Strong and Durable
• Expensive
• Similar characteristics like plastic or wood fiber
• Not applicable for roller shutters

5. Fiberglass Garage Door:

Fiberglass is least popular material for garage doors. It is also known as GRP (Glass Resin Polyester). It is very light in weight, poor insulator, and can fade from weather exposure. Fiberglass garage doors may used in past, but now they are replaced by new aluzinc material. The panels of fiberglass need encasing of aluminum frames. Frames, can be painted and offer greater resistance to dents than thin steel. Fiberglass garage doors are mostly used in coastal areas because of its anti-corrosion properties it is more resistant to salt water corrosion.

Overview About Fiberglass Garage Door:

• Dent resistant
• Can crack due to extremely cold weather
• Relatively cheaper than wood and steel
• Can be Painted
• Light weight
• Maintenance free
• Easy to operate
• Weather resistant
• Poor thermal insulation
• Fade or yellowish with age or direct exposure of sun