Overhead Door Company of Sioux City Blog

A residential garage door is an important part of your home. At first glance, it may seem simple to understand the mechanics of it: a door plus an electric opener. But it’s a little more complicated than that. A garage door is made up of several parts that work together to safely raise and lower your door. If one breaks, it affects the rest of the door, usually rendering it unusable. It’s a good idea to understand the basic parts of your residential garage door so you can quickly identify where the issue exists when your door stops working.

Today’s buyer has multiple options for every purchase. The Internet, brick-and-mortar stores, swaps and even second-hand online shopping sites all sell items previously only purchased from local retailers, like furniture, appliances, bathroom vanities and yes, even garage door openers. These online and big box stores claim to have everything you need at the low prices but they can’t compete with your local Overhead Door Red Ribbon Dealer for a garage door. Here’s why:

There’s a little-thought-about part of your garage door that does a pretty big job – it’s your door’s weather seal. This narrow piece of rubber or silica runs along the bottom of your door and seals it from whatever is lurking outside – snow, rain, sub-arctic breezes and so on. Given its vital task, this part of your door should be given some real consideration, especially in the fall.

Have you ever driven away from your house, only to turn right back around to check to see if you left the garage door open? It happens to everyone at one time or another. But we have a solution, the OHD Anywhere app.

(Psst...Stop by the Siouxland Home Show March 2nd - 5th And enter to win a FREE OHD Anywhere Kit!) We at Overhead Door of Sioux City and Overhead Door of Yankton have tossed around the term “OHD Anywhere” quite a bit recently. As a company that focuses on garage door maintenance and garage door installation, we are as tied to solid craftsmanship as we are to state-of-the-art technology. On their own, both are pretty cool; together, they are downright amazing.

It's hard not to keep using the phrase "there's an app for that" when it keeps becoming more and more applicable. We're able to sync more and more of our lives across our tech devices, and we can "talk" to our home (and our home can talk back!) in ways we never thought possible.