Category: Tips

4 Great Ideas For Converting Your Garage

If you’re looking to expand your home but are not sure where the extra space is going to come from, look no further than your humble, old garage. Although it may look dusty and bleak at the moment, a storage facility for all of your long forgotten items, your garage could just be the perfect […]

How To Protect Your Garage Door Against Winter

Since our garage doors are not areas of our home in which we would choose to spend our leisure time, we tend to forget about things such as their thermal efficiency. As a result, our garages are usually the least energy efficient rooms in our entire homes, and when winter comes round and the cold […]

How To Prepare For A Garage Door Fitting

Before having a new garage door fitted, many of our customers want to know if there’s anything they should do to prepare. The fitting of your new door will be carried out by our professional team but, to help ensure the smoothest installation, there are a few measures you can take prior to the work […]

How To Maintain Your Garage Door

To keep your garage door in the best condition and working smoothly, it is important you carry out some regular maintenance tasks. A garage door is a large and heavy object to move and it is, therefore, necessary to ensure all parts of the mechanism are in good working condition for the safety of the […]

Regular Garage Door Checks You Should Be Carrying Out

A high-end, quality garage door has the potential to last for years to come. However, as with most things, if it is neglected its performance can end up compromised. To combat this, you should regularly carry out checks on your garage door to ensure that it’s working to the highest standards. Here, we’ll be detailing […]

Converting Your Garage into a Gym: Things to Consider

Garages don’t have to be used solely as a place to store your gardening equipment or your car. In fact, thinking so narrowly is to miss a great opportunity to utilise another room of your property for other, more exciting purposes. One such repurposing involves turning your garage into a gym. But transforming your garage […]

Ideas for Sprucing Up Your Old Garage Door

If your old garage door is looking a little worse for wear, you’ll probably be wanting to reinvigorate it to make it less unsightly, which is why, in this month’s article, we’ll be looking at the best ways you can breathe life back into your garage door. However, it is worth noting before we begin […]

How to make your up and over garage door more secure

Your garage is the place where you store a whole horde of some of your most prized and expensive possessions, from your car, motorbike or bicycle (that might cover all the prized stuff, but perhaps not!) to all of your tools and hardware for your work, and as such it is absolutely essential that you […]

What to do if your automated garage door loses power or breaks?

From blackouts during thunderstorms to a fault in your garage motor system, problems with your automated garage door can crop up at any time and really put a crimp in your day. But if you’re prepared, your car, tools, or bicycle need not remain caged up in your garage until the engineer arrives or the […]

How to avoid mould in your garage

Many families opt to use their garage as an additional storage space for bikes, outdoors equipment, and any other belongings no longer used. Keeping your garage mould free is therefore essential to keeping your possessions safe and the garage a clean space to store items in. In this month’s article, we’ve listed a few simple […]