Many people don’t understand that their garage door is in fact, the heaviest moving object on their entire property – unless they own a gigantic monster truck. Here’s some little known facts about garage doors, as prepared by the experts at Orange County Garage Doors.

Facts About Garage Doors

• Garage doors, rather than the front door, are the main point of entry for over seventy percent of homeowners.
• Garage doors cover usually up to 6 times more space than the front door.
• Over seventy percent of homeowners use garage door openers to enter their home every day.
• Garage doors improve home values by one to four percent. An upscale garage door can massively raise the estimated value of your real estate, creating massive seller’s benefits.
• Over ninety percent of garage door manufacturers online offer a range of different garage door designers to their customers.
• High spring tension can make the installation or repair of a garage door quite dangerous indeed.
• The average size of garages is increasing. Almost twenty-five percent of single family houses in 2014 have an over 3 car garage, as compared the the only eleven percent of homes that had this in 1992.
• Over seventy percent of homeowners who recently totally replaced their garage door believe that in highly increased their home’s value.
• Garage doors usually take up over thirty percent of the front facade of the home.
• According to studies by FEMA, if you lose your garage door there’s a high likelihood that your home will be lost too. In high winds, the destruction of a home usually is triggered by the destruction of the garage door – which are usually the vulnerable variety of double wide doors that lack reinforcement or insulation.