Garage door buying guide videos

These short videos from Overhead Door™ walk through the choices you will make when buying a new garage door. When you have narrowed it down, visit our showroom in Clifton Park to look at samples and literature with our sales staff, or request a free estimate.

Style and Design

How to choose a garage door style that suits the architecture of your house.

Insulating Specifications

What insulation does for a garage door, and how to compare insulated garage doors.

Pricing

The choices that affect what a new garage door costs.

Material Choices

How the main garage door materials compare.

Why Overhead Door™

Background on the company that invented the upward-lifting garage door.

It depends on the garage door you choose, so ask when you request your free estimate. Once your garage door arrives, our scheduling team will set an installation date and time that fits your schedule.

Yes. Insulated steel garage doors such as the Overhead Door™ Thermacore® line make a real difference in comfort and energy use, especially through Capital Region winters. You can look at insulated and non-insulated samples in the showroom.

Yes. Our showroom at 15 Corporate Drive in Clifton Park has samples and literature for your review.

Most single-car garage doors are 8 or 9 feet wide and most two-car garage doors are 16 feet wide, usually 7 feet tall. Our door measurement tool shows what to measure.

Not always. If your garage door opener works well and has photo-eye safety sensors, it can usually stay. If it is more than 10 to 15 years old or was made before 1993, installing a new garage door is a convenient time to replace it.

Yes. Estimates for new garage doors and garage door openers are always free, and we also offer a free in-home design consultation to help you choose a style. For repairs, the office will explain the likely fix and the cost before a technician is sent.