Install A Garage Door
When you first look at all of the parts and pieces that comprise a garage door, you can be quickly intimidated. The large pieces of metal track, hinges, rollers, springs, cables, handles, struts, door panels and a mountain of nuts, bolts and ... [... more]
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Selection Tips For Garage Door Openers
Almost all openers contain microchips and as such they are susceptible to malfunctions caused by power surges. If your opener suddenly malfunctions it could have been a surge. Keep that in mind. The following garage door opener selection tips are ... [... more]
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Garage Door Openers Checklist
Most garage door openers require little, if any, maintenance. When you get your new opener simply look at the owner's manual and see what it says about lubrication. Some moving parts may need periodic attention. The other thing you want to do is ... [... more]
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Garage Door Openers
Your choice of a one half horsepower motor was excellent. This motor should lift any sized residential garage door. Another common size is one third horsepower. Keep in mind that the openers don't actually do all of the work to lift a door. In ... [... more]
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Garage Door & Secure Radio Operators
However, insulated doors alone can't keep your house or garage comfortable. You need to pay attention to weather-stripping details around the entire edge of the door, the spaces between the door panels and the bottom door seal. Air infiltration ... [... more]
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Garage Door Maintenance
Probably the most important part of a garage door are the springs. These beasts are the muscles that are actually supposed to do 95 percent of all the work to lift an overhead garage door. If you have to struggle to lift your door, then the ... [... more]
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All Types Of Garage Door Manufacturers
If you own an older radio controlled opener, you can have a problem. A high tech thief will sit and copy your code. You leave to go to work and he simply retransmits the code! If you purchase an opener from one of the companies below, every time ... [... more]
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Safety Tips: Garage Doors & Garage Door Openers
If you have an automatic door opener, periodically check its safety mechanisms. The first test is to place a piece of 2x4 under the path of the door. Close the door on top of the 2x4. The door should hit the 2x4 and begin to reverse back to the ... [... more]
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Garage Door Manufacturers
The Wayne-Dalton Corporation offers a free Garage Door Safety Kit. The Door & Access Systems Manufacturers Association International publishes a pamphlet titled Automatic Garage Door & Opener Safety & Maintenance Guide. Become a Member and ... [... more]
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Garage Doors & Garage Door Openers
Within the past few years, the automatic openers have added another safety feature. Virtually every new automatic opener is now sold with an infrared beam transmitter and receiver. These devices are installed near the floor of your garage. A ... [... more]
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Garage Door Springs
Finally, after installation of the opener, test the door to make sure the door automatically reverses. Virtually every new opener is equipped with infrared detectors mounted low to the floor. These detectors sense if someone or something walks ... [... more]
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Garage Doors
Garage doors are undergoing their third period of metamorphosis. Wood used to be the material of choice in the first generation of doors. Approximately 20 years ago insulated, steel garage doors appeared. Fiberglass and other composites are now ... [... more]
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