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As garages were incorporated to the architecture and construction of newer homes people started to look differently at the still carriage-house-like doors that had been available.  Soon new styles were introduced bringing design ideas from all over the world. People who built Spanish style homes wanted Spanish style garage doors to match the rest of the architecture.  Shortly after one could find Mediterranean garage doors, French garage doors, Mexican garage doors, Tuscan garage doors, Tudor garage doors.  The custom garage doors style list is endless.

Aside from the styles that were in demand there also came the options in materials, paintgrades and/or staingrades that were used on these newly developed garage doors.  Woods now vary anywhere from a select tight knot cedar to the denser woods such as mahogany and teak.  There really are no limits to the variety and/or amount of options and/or styles that are now available. Beware however because there’s only a handful of manufacturers out there that can do the job right.

As garage doors continued to improve and the availability of electricity the incorporation of the electric garage door operator became an almost natural feature that had to happen.  These apparatuses were a well-embraced mechanism that allowed homeowners to open their garage doors remotely from the comfort of their cars without the need to step out of their cars to open heavy garage doors by hand.  This has been by far the most useful garage door invention in the history of garage doors.

The leading manufacturer of modern garage doors openers is Lift-Master selling thousands and thousands of garage door operators on a yearly basis.  Lift-Master has invented numerous safety features that allow common households to have and operate automatic garage doors.  One of the most noted invention was the photo-eye sensors that allow an operating device to check for any obstructions when prompted to operate.  Should the photo-eye sensors capture any obstacle in the path of the operating garage door it automatically stops the operating door and returns it to the open position.  This keeps children, pets or vehicles away from danger by disabling the garage door close shut on someone or something.  In addition to this safety feature, should it fail, the motor has internal sensors that send force setting signals to the motherboard of the operator.  For example, if the photo-eye sensors fail for whatever reason and there is someone in the path of the closing door, the internal opener sensors will sense a resistance pressure as it touches a person and or object as it travels down.  Once the signal is received and it is perceived as an obstruction, again, the door will be retracted into its open position.