Overhead Door Company of Sioux City Blog

Choosing a garage door that complements the style of your home can be daunting, especially with so many options to choose from. To help, Overhead Door of Sioux City and Yankton offers what we call DoorView, an online visualization tool that allows you to select various garage door options and see how they would ACUTALLY look on your home. You can “visualize” in 3 easy steps.

We know choosing a new garage door and system can be a daunting task. Between considering a style, selecting a color and worrying about price, it’s easy to get distracted and forget about one of the most important aspects – safety. It’s something that homeowners too often overlook. Luckily, Overhead Door Company of Sioux City, IA & Yankton, SD doesn’t, and we build many safety features into our doors, openers and accessories that will help to keep your home and family safe. Below are just a few of the many safety features you can find in our products. 1) Lighting –One of the most important safety features to consider when choosing a new garage door and opener system is garage lighting. All Overhead Door openers feature a lighting system that activates when you open your garage door and then switch off after a set time. And some, like our Destiny and Odyssey openers, even include motion detection lighting that will turn on the lights for you so you aren’t fumbling fro a light switch in a dark garage. 2) Accident Prevention – Our Safe T-Bean System®, standard in all Overhead Door openers, stops and reverses a closing door when an object passes through its infrared beam, helping to prevent accidents when your garage door is closing. 3) Battery Back-Up – Power’s out? No problem. The Overhead Door Battery Back-Up unit allots you to continue to operate your garage door during a power outage. This system reaches a full charge in 48 hours and gives you up to 50 cycles of use in a 24-hour period after the initial power outage. 4) Security – Part of keeping your garage safe is keeping it secure. Whether you're in Dakota Dunes, Morningside or wherever, safety is always key when it comes to your garage and home. That’s why we use the latest in CodeDodger® technology on all our openers, which prevents piracy of the radio signal that opens your garage door. For further security, Overhead Door developed the Door Report remote, a garage door opener remote control that answers the nagging question, “Did I close the garage door?” When your garage door closes, the Door Report remote flashes a green light and emits a beep for confirmation. Browse our website to find more information on our products that can increase your garage safety or stop in at one of our Sioux City or Yankton offices.

How do you make your Siouxland home look better without wiping out your budget? An annual study of home improvement projects has found the answer is no further away than your garage.

For many people, the idea of replacing a garage door is daunting. It’s a (physically) big purchase that can make a big impact on the look and character of the home. But if you’re thinking about selling your home or just trying to add some curb appeal, replacing your old door is a great way to go. It’ll help your house stand out on the block (in a very good way), and research has sown, deliver a significant return on investment when it comes time to sell (up to 80% percent on average, according to REMODELING magazine’s 2014 Cost vs. Value report). But how do you even going about it? To make sense of it all and find the garage door system that best fits your Midwest home’s architecture, follow these EASY and SIMPLE FIVE steps.