Hello World! Welcome Friends! Today’s garages are more than just a place for homeowners to park their vehicles. Many homeowners also use their garages as secure storage spaces, workspaces, amongst other uses. But not all garages are ready-made to reach their full potential. Take a look at some of these options for improving your garage to make it one of your favorite spaces in your home.
Epoxy Flooring
Most garages use concrete slabs for their flooring, but its ubiquity as a material isn’t a reflection on its suitability. Concrete is a porous material prone to absorbing liquids like oils that ultimately stain it and affect its appearance. Over time, concrete has a tendency to crack and flake away, damage that is challenging to truly repair. Concrete flooring can also be difficult to keep clean, an irritating quality in an environment where debris like dirt and leaves are common.
Investing in epoxy flooring in a garage remedies all these issues, and it can be easily installed by a local epoxy garage coating company. Epoxy coatings work to seal existing concrete floors, preventing liquids from seeping into the concrete and increasing the flooring’s durability. The smooth finish of epoxy is much easier to clean than concrete.
There are a variety of styles and finishes available for epoxy flooring. Speaking about what options are available with your contractor can help you decide which is the best fit for your space.
Smart Garage Door Control
Everyone knows the feeling – the pit in your stomach when you’re too far from home to turn around, but you can’t remember if you closed the garage door or not. Thanks to increases in smart home technology, you can find relief from this everyday concern.
Most major garage door opener manufacturers make a smart garage opener. Homeowners can check the status of their garage doors from a smartphone app and open or close the door remotely. Depending on the model purchased, these smart garage door controllers are compatible with popular digital assistants like Google Assistant, Amazon Alexa, and Apple HomeKit.
In addition to providing peace of mind about whether the garage is open or closed, smart garage controllers can also protect packages from porch pirates. More services are offering secure delivery that utilizes smart garage controllers to provide one-time access to a garage, allowing delivery people can place packages inside then close the door, sealing your packages away so they cannot be stolen when you’re not home.
Storage Systems
Garages today hold so much more than cars. They can be used to store lawn care tools like mowers and rakes, seasonal items like holiday decorations, and sporting equipment. Investing in an installed storage system to organize these items not only makes your life easier but can also increase the value of your home.
Customizable wall storage solutions are available to meet your exact needs, from shelving units to get boxes off the floor to specialized wall mounts for holding everything from skis and snowboards to brooms and rakes.
If your garage gets used as a workspace, movable workstations that offer both tool storage and a working surface can be a great alternative to space-consuming mounted counters and tool benches.
Additional Electricity
Adding electrical outlets is another great upgrade for any garage that moonlights as a workspace. Having dedicated electricity run to the garage makes working in the space easier, eliminating the need to run power in from the inside of the house or from exterior outlets.
Outlets in garages should come outfitted with GFCI, or a ground-fault current interrupter. GFCIs automatically shut off the flow of power if a ground fault, such as water, is detected, making them a critical safety measure in a garage environment.
The kinds of upgrades you consider for your garage depend on how the space serves you. These are only some of the options available to improve your garage to make it work best for your home.
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