Garage doors improved a lot over the past decade. Not so many years ago, the driver had to get out of the car to open and close the garage door. That was a real pain, especially for those who were living in crowded and very circulated areas.

As construction materials have diversified a lot, the garage doors had to keep pace with this progress, so many types of doors were invented. Also the materials are now various, from wood to metal or PVC. Colors and models are so numerous, that house decorators can spend months before choosing the most suitable option.

Nevertheless, the main four types of doors for garages remain the same: roller doors, with their variant of sectional doors, up and over doors and two pieces doors. Depending on your particular needs, you may choose one type or another, as each of them comes with good things as well as bad things. You need to make a comparison before buying anything.

What makes the roller garage doors one of the favorite types across the world is the fact that they need so little space to open, that you can use them in very tight spaces. A roller door is made of little, narrow pieces of material bound together and rolling just like the window shutters in a special case above the door.

Up and over garage doors, or overhead doors, are very popular, but they need a lot of space around them in order to be able to open completely. Because you need to stop the car quite far away from the door before it opens, such doors may not be suitable for narrow roads. You may create trouble for other cars while opening your garage door, thus creating the chance for more accidents.

Born as a variant to roller doors, the sectional garage doors are based on the same roller mechanism, but the pieces which compose the door are bigger. Usually, such a door is made of 4-8 such parts. Many manufacturers offer this choice of door to their clients.

If you live in a kind of a mansion, with a huge garden, then a swing hung door can be the most suitable for your garage. There are garage door manufacturers which produce real state of the art doors based on this operating principle. You’ve seen such doors in all classical movies.