Overhead Door Company of Sioux City Blog

Residential garage doors are a great investment for your home. In fact, the ROI or money recouped is 93.3%, meaning if you spend $4,041 on a new door, you’ll recoup $3,769 when it comes time to sell. But it can get confusing as to what type of garage door to buy, considering the wide range of doors available on the market. For example, the cheapest residential garage door starts at about $600 and the more expensive ones can run upwards to $4,000 depending on upgrades and material quality. Since there are so many door options, knowing which upgrades are worth the money is helpful. Here are our top 5 garage door upgrades that will pay for themselves.

Residential garage doors are functional doors that allow homeowners to park their vehicles inside their garages. Residential garage doors provide comfort, convenience and security. But garage doors can also be a great design feature in other areas of your home!

It’s that time of year again when you walk outside, and the air feels hot and heavy. Midwestern summers are notorious for heat and humidity and those uncomfortable conditions are exacerbated inside a garage. For those that need to complete tasks inside their garage, store precious items or want to lower their energy bill, cooling down stifling temps is a must.

Replacing your residential garage door is one of the smartest home renovations projects you can take on in 2022. According to Remodeling’s 2021 Cost vs. Value Report, residential garage door replacement projects provide a 93.8% return on investment (ROI), topping the 2021 list. What’s more, is the project that provides the most ROI is also one of the most economical. So, when you think about it, the only hard decision to make when it comes to replacing your residential garage door is deciding which of the many options to choose from. Here are the top garage door trends we think will be in neighborhoods all over the Sioux City and Yankton area in 2022.

Smart technology has upgraded our daily lives. Today we have smartwatches, smartphones, smart thermostats, smart doorbells, refrigerators and cars. It only stands to reason that smart garage door openers should be next. But actually, Overhead Door of Sioux City™ and Overhead Door of Yankton™ has had the latest in garage door opener technology available to its residential customers for years.

Everybody gets to dress up for Halloween, why can't your garage door do the same? Overhead Door of Sioux City and Yankton bring you their favorite garage door Halloween decorations. Which one will you do?

That's right. We want you to stop having a ball in your garage. Have more fun with lasers instead. If you have a tennis ball hanging from a string in your garage to keep you from parking too close to the far wall (or the items you have stored there), it may be time for an upgrade. One that won't hit you in the face as you sweep the garage. One that won't advertise to your neighbors that you may have a slight problem with vehicle depth perception. One that is both out of sight and front of mind. It looks like this:

Football season is around the corner and, thankfully, so are garage tailgate parties. We searched the internet for football-enthused garages to get us into game-day spirit, and we think these do the trick! If you are like most Sioux City and Yankton residents, you use your garage as your indoor/outdoor entertaining space for birthday parties, reunions, and sports gatherings. All the more reason to make it look as beautiful as it is functional.

Parking in your garage should be a relatively brainless task. You click your garage door remote, your garage door, in all its glory, rises, and you park your vehicle so that you have space in front and room enough in the back so that your garage door can lower unimpeded.

It's a problem as old as the garage door itself: How to find the perfect spot in the garage to maximize the space in front of your vehicle while making sure the garage door can still shut behind you. Left to chance, you risk parking too close to the far wall, increasing the risk of damage to the wall or items you have stored there and reducing usable garage space (and we all know what a premium that is).