Steel and Aluminum both materials are highly utilized for their strength, low maintenance and durability, making them a preferred choice for the homeowners. Today, most of the garage doors are made from these materials and the reasons are listed above. The list of advantages is much more but only a single disadvantage to using these materials is that they dent when something accidentally hits the door.

It’s all depending on the durability level of materials and driveway. Whether it’s your car or any other hard equipment; when it collides with the section of garage door; the door will be dented easily and require to be fixed as soon as possible to keep the look of a door as it is. Even if your kids use this area as a playground and hit the door with a rod or a hard thing; your aluminum door will get dented. So, the door will be taken care wisely to reduce the chances of getting a dent on a door and also extreme damage.

Generally, we all call the garage door experts when we notice something unwanted in a garage door. That’s good to call the experts to fix it as soon as possible to avoid further damages and serious injuries. But they charge you much and every time you cannot afford the service charges. And sometimes even you can fix the garage door problems like remove the dust from a track and fix the dent on your own with a basic guide. So, you can save money as well.

What You Need to Repair the Dented Garage Door:

The very step is to prepare all the required items used to fix the dent in a garage door. Most of them are available at home and remaining things, you can purchase from a nearby local market at a minimal cost. The necessary items are:

• Medium Size Bucket
• Outdoor Hose
• Dish Soap
• Heavy Duty Aluminum Foil
• Large Sponge
• Cane of Compressed Air
• Standard Lighter

Step to be followed are listed below:

1. Wash the garage door with warm water and soap then wait until it gets dry completely.
2. Now, put the aluminum foil on a dented area.
3. Heat up the aluminum foil using a standard lighter. Make sure that the whole dented area is heated.
4. Remove the aluminum foil & spray the dent upside down with compressed air for around 30 seconds.

Due to extreme temperature and cold from the compressed air, the dent will be pop up back and will be disappeared within a few minutes.

This technique is safer, faster and easier than other household activities. So, when you notice a dent in your garage door next time, must try this trick to fix it. If still not working even after following the above steps; it’s time to contact garage door experts to inspect the garage door and resolve the issues.