In modern times, garage doors are mostly ready-made trendy doors. These doors come in a verity of designs. Material of construction of these units is steel, wood, wrought iron, and even glass and other compounds. Trendy residential garage doors elevate beauty and get up of the whole structure. Most of theses are manufactured provisions and can be also made following specific designs according to architectural plan. Beside, residential garage purposes, there is another segment of doors for industrial and commercial garages. Such units made for nonresidential building garages are generally made of rolling steel and have distinct functional utilities. General type of doors are either manually operated or built with mechanical provisions for opening or closing facility. Normally garage door installation for mechanical operation come with installation guide for convenience of installation and further operation as well maintenance. In fact most of heavy doors are mechanically operated units. Installation of these automatic units is difficult and may require assistance of technicians from the manufacturers.
Being lighter, the manual doors are easily rolled up or down with the support of handles placed conveniently for proper leakage. Due to least involvement of elements, manual units are easy to install. Further, these are more dependable than security point of view. However, heavy manual doors are not easy to install. Specific skill is required to handle heavy doors. For installation of these, it is better to depend upon experts. Automated or mechanical type doors are popular due to convenience of handling. These doors work with system of motor powered wheels and pulling cables. The system is same for all heavy doors whatever material may be made of.
The manufactures provide consumer friendly kits containing total support for buyers who would like to do fixing themselves. Normally it is easy to understand stepwise instruction for installation but, in reality the process of installation may not be as easy as it appears. It does not mean that a home owner can not do the installation on his own. A number of people have good experience of doing things themselves and they can install such doors, whether automatic or manual.
Before starting, one should read the instructions thoroughly and get familiarized with components. Taking all necessary measurements to get ready with the base work comes next. This is most critical part of installation process. A mistake in leveling and parallel position of the tracks will interfere with proper alignment and setting of the door. In case of any doubt, wiser action is to take professional assistance. If the new door is a part of home renovation process, possibly there will be an introduction of removing the existing one. Again one must remember of problem of removing the door, especially if it is heavy. Automatic door installation basically involves fixing the tracks with brackets. The second step is connecting components and shutter pieces following manufacturers' instructions. Finally the motor unit needs to be connected.
While installing such doors, one needs to be extremely careful about things like heavy weight of door, high tension spring, leveling and alignment, and involvement of electricity, if is automatic.