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Three Safety Tricks to Keep Your Garage Door Opener Safe

Three Safety Tricks to Keep Your Garage Door Opener Safe

Garage door openers are a very useful convenience, but if lost, your garage and your home may be at risk. For this reason, it’s important to keep your garage door opener safe, and so keep your garage and home secure. Here are three quick safety tips to keep your garage door opener safe. Place your

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Why the Right Garage Door Boosts Curb Appeal

Why the Right Garage Door Boosts Curb Appeal

A big portion of your home’s curb appeal comes from your choice of garage door. A garage door (or doors) takes up a large area of your house’s front face, so it’s important to choose the right garage door that fits your house’s personality and functions how you need it when you need it to.

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Should You Get a Detached Garage?

Should You Get a Detached Garage?

A detached garage can be a useful place to store your car or other supplies, such as hazardous chemicals, fertilizers, or your riding lawn mower. While detached garages enjoy a certain reputation for elegance and usefulness, attached garages offer better weather protection. Which garage design is better? Potential health hazards should be stored in a

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Quick Tips to Protect Your Garage and Improve Garage Security

Quick Tips to Protect Your Garage and Improve Garage Security

While your garage does a great job of keeping your car safe, it often jeopardizes your home. Many thieves target the garage door because they view it as the best way to gain unauthorized entry into your home. Fortunately, these quick tips can help you protect your garage. Mix and match these suggestions to arrive

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Picking the Perfect Home Garage Door

Picking the Perfect Home Garage Door

A Garage door is a big part of the look of your house. Forward-facing and very large, the right door can make your home’s appearance–or break it. It’s not enough to be beautiful, however. A garage door needs to be made of the right material for your climate and your needs. Material is key Not

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Home Garages – Different Kinds

Home Garages – Different Kinds

Are you thinking about building a garage for your home? Are you aware of the many different kinds of home garages available today? It is a lot more than a single square block of space. There are many styles. Your home garage is an extension of your house and even, your identity. While it serves

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Is Engineer Stamp Required For Garage Plans?

Is Engineer Stamp Required For Garage Plans?

This is a great question about garage plans and it comes up often. The answer is, probably not, but maybe. It depends on where you build, what the local design parameters are and what kind of plans you use for the project. WHY ARE ENGINEER STAMPED GARAGE PLANS SOMETIMES REQUIRED? – In most locations plans

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Garage Plans And Architectural Style

Garage Plans And Architectural Style

Garages are usually built by or for homeowners as building accessories to their current home. Over the many eras of home building, many houses were built fairly basic with no particular architectural style. The same is true for garage plans and garages built. The plain designs were typical and blended well with houses. However, if

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Building Codes for Garage Plans

Building Codes for Garage Plans

Building Codes were developed as standards of building construction including safety, construction quality and functionality for all users of built facilities. Nearly all jurisdictions in every state have adopted a building code of some type. In most cases, the International-Residential-Code (IRC) is the basis of each state’s building code. Florida is the exception and has

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Garage Building Cost

Garage Building Cost

Rough Estimate The Cost Of Building A Garage: A basic method of estimating your cost for building the detached garage would be to apply an average cost per sq. ft. of new construction of $35 to $45. This would be an average basic cost to have a builder/contractor construct a one story garage on your own

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Choosing a Building Location for Garage Plans

Choosing a Building Location for Garage Plans

If you have selected garage plans before planning the property or lot you may have acted too quickly. There are usually many limitations on development. Your property is defined by category of zoning by your local planning (or zoning) office. Each category has limitations and controls which affect the development of your property. Where structures

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Workshop Style Garage Plans

Workshop Style Garage Plans

Finding ideal or even adequate workshop space in an existing home can be difficult. In most cases, homeowners choose to build a new, detached garage structure. Luckily, there are many workshop style garage plans available today. This style of garage has certain aspects which support use as workshop space: Ceiling Height – Detached garage structures

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