Hello all; first time poster, so forgive me if this type of issue has already been asked about 100 times; I tried to search for it but found no mention of my specific issue on this forum or any other.
Anyway, yesterday my roommate (who owns the condo that I live in) informed me that he found a dent in the garage door where my girlfriend parks her car when she visits.
I've seen dented garage doors from vehicle's bumping into them, and this one just doesn't seem the same. What I see is a small inward buckle, a couple inches wide and nearly perfectly vertical on the bottom panel.
Furthermore, she's very careful when parking in this spot. We couldn't find any front bumper scratches on her car nor any of her car's paint on the garage door. I don't think she hit it.
Since this is a condo and there are many units like it, I walked up and down the road and looked at similar garage doors, and sure enough, I found a couple other doors with similar characteristics within a couple blocks. On the 2nd garage door, the inwards buckle was diagonal but still straight, and also on the bottom panel. On the 3rd door, the buckle was vertical, straight, and on the bottom 2 panels, perfectly lined up on both panels.
Can anyone shed light on what may have caused this issue? I want to say that maybe it's a defect in the garage door panel but I have no clue. My roommate is accusing my girlfriend of doing this and I don't want her to have to bear responsibility if she did not cause the problem.
If it matters, I live in Daly City, California, on a small mountain (or hill, depending who you ask) near San Francisco. Sometimes there are heavy winds, heavy fog, occasional rain... not sure what environmental impacts could be relevant here.
Here's a link to download the pictures since they are too big to attach to this forum: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B25URhaLZL4ROG5YcFA2aGxoX1E/edit?usp=sharing
Thanks for any feedback.
Anyway, yesterday my roommate (who owns the condo that I live in) informed me that he found a dent in the garage door where my girlfriend parks her car when she visits.
I've seen dented garage doors from vehicle's bumping into them, and this one just doesn't seem the same. What I see is a small inward buckle, a couple inches wide and nearly perfectly vertical on the bottom panel.
Furthermore, she's very careful when parking in this spot. We couldn't find any front bumper scratches on her car nor any of her car's paint on the garage door. I don't think she hit it.
Since this is a condo and there are many units like it, I walked up and down the road and looked at similar garage doors, and sure enough, I found a couple other doors with similar characteristics within a couple blocks. On the 2nd garage door, the inwards buckle was diagonal but still straight, and also on the bottom panel. On the 3rd door, the buckle was vertical, straight, and on the bottom 2 panels, perfectly lined up on both panels.
Can anyone shed light on what may have caused this issue? I want to say that maybe it's a defect in the garage door panel but I have no clue. My roommate is accusing my girlfriend of doing this and I don't want her to have to bear responsibility if she did not cause the problem.
If it matters, I live in Daly City, California, on a small mountain (or hill, depending who you ask) near San Francisco. Sometimes there are heavy winds, heavy fog, occasional rain... not sure what environmental impacts could be relevant here.
Here's a link to download the pictures since they are too big to attach to this forum: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B25URhaLZL4ROG5YcFA2aGxoX1E/edit?usp=sharing
Thanks for any feedback.
