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Homeowners usually use their garages as a parking area for cars. A garage can be used as a workshop or a warehouse as storage of home equipments such as gardening tools or heavy things that not be used everyday. A garage can be multi purposes. Few homeowners remodel their wooden garages for turning into a kid's play ground, small office, laundry room, meeting room or other purpose rooms. Homeowners always maintain their garages according to its function and purposes.

Regarding to function of a garage is being used, It is significant to garage owners to know the different material types of garages and its cause so that they may be able to choose the good alternative according to the purposes for which the garages were built. By average United States house prices approximately between US$50,000 to US$200,000, people are looking for the advantages to add their house's values. A single garage can increase around 10% to a house's value and a double garage can increase around 20% in the value.

Most of the reason why home owner prefer wooden garage material is for its aesthetic and nice glance. Wooden garages are one of the most popular types that you see on a lot of houses. However, the garages can also be made by other materials such as concrete. Wooden garage material is cheaper than other garage door materials. For the wooden garage, you can select solid cedar wood which looks wonderful for long term. The wooden garages have a great increasing to home's values and the return on the low investment required is amazingly great, especially when you aware that the average price of a single concrete garage is approaching US$5,000 and a double garage approximately US$9,000. These public prices are include the delivery, the installation and guarantees in 2-5 years. The wooden materials can be crack by weathers. So the wooden garage requires the owner to regularly repaint, recondition and maintain the wood every few years.

Wooden garage materials have some advantages and disadvantages when compared to the other materials.
1. First advantage: Deals with the denting. Metal materials can easily dent. If you have children or pets playing around the garage, they can accidentally dent the metal materials. The wooden materials can't be dented, those materials withstands scratches and scrapes better than other materials.

2. Second advantage: The look of wooden garage. The wooden material is seems better than other material for the look of a home garage. The wooden material can be seamlessly blend in the surroundings unlike other materials such as concrete material.

3. Third advantage: The other materials are usually produced to standard measurement. If you don't have the standard measurement, this will be a problem with your garage. Wooden garage materials can be adjustable with any size or shape. If the garage floor isn't on the standard measurement, the wooden materials can solve this problem.

A wooden garage takes far longer to build and costs less money to build. A wooden garage gives you the best of multi functions and purposes.