Recently manufactured garage doors offer a variety of improvements over older ones, so it may be a good idea to replace an older door with a new one.

Do You Need to Replace Your Garage Door?

Even if your garage door works fine, if it’s more than 10 years old, you may want to consider having a new garage door installed. There are a number of features that garage doors manufactured recently have that older ones don’t, including improved safety and security options as well as more options for opening your garage door.

Improved Safety Features

One of the most significant safety improvements to garage doors is the safety reversal, which started being required in garage doors in 1993. The safety reversal ensures that a garage door will not close on children or pets. It does this by using two sensors that are placed just above the floor; if anything interrupts the light beam created by the sensors, the garage door reverses.

Better Security

Garage doors made in the last few years are also more secure than ones manufactured a few years ago. With older automatic garage doors, an intruder could sit outside of your home and use a device to determine the code that your garage door opener used. Garage doors manufactured now have what is called a rolling code that keeps this from being possible.

Keyless Entry and Less Noise

Garage doors that are new also work with recent technology, so things like wireless keypads will work with garage doors that have been manufactured in the last few years. Using wireless keypads, you can set up codes or even fingerprint authorization, which allows you to enter your garage without keys. Additionally, recently manufactured garage doors tend to be much quieter than older doors. The reason for this is that older doors used a chain drive, but newer systems use a screwdriver or belt drive, and they are significantly quieter.