Posted by admin on Tuesday, 05 January 2010
Tags: Garage Door, Garage Doors, Garage Door Openers, Garage Door Repair, Garage Door Services, Garage Door Installation
Some garage doors are much more difficult to adjust and repair than others- successful garage door repair requires a feel for the difference. Some spring assemblies can be deadly. The best bet for a do-it-yourselfer is to go with a lighter door that has a simpler spring mechanism.
Looking at all the individual parts that make up a working garage door and electric garage door opener can be downright overwhelming. You'll have dozens of metal bits splayed all over your garage: the huge metal tracks, the rollers, the hinges, the fasteners, the nuts, the bolts, the cables, springs, and handles, the struts, the panels themselves, and enough screws to frighten even the most cocksure repairman.
But some garage door manufactueres have deigned to makekits for those of us who like to instlall things on out own, and they are getting more and more user-friendly every year.
The best place to start is obviously the instructions- familiarize yourself with all the parts and where they go and th physics of how the door aught to work.
But here's the catch- if you can't even understand the directions, you definitely should be calling in the big guns. That's when you need to put down your pride for a moment, pick up the phone, and call a professional garage door installation company.
Posted by admin on Thursday, 31 December 2009
Tags: Garage Door, Garage Door Opener, Garage Door Repair, Garage Door Replacement, Garage Door Installation, Garage Door Service, Garage Doors, Garage Door Openers, Garage Door Services
Keeping yourself fresh and open to new ideas promotes psychological and physical well-being. Keep and open mind and an open heart all year round in 2010- keep all doors open to yourself. This includes making sure your garage door opener will continue to function throughout the new year.
There are a few basic steps you can take to ensure optimum performance of your equipment. Make a cursory examination of the hinges, brackets, springs, and fasteners. Examine the door tracks and make sure all of these parts are free from dirt and grime, and holding up structural integrity.
If your rollers have been worn out, replace them. If your brackets are bent, straighten them. Double check the security of all nuts and bolts to make sure no part is in danger of coming loose.
If hinges and metal rollers need lubrication oil them. Do not oil the tracks themselves. Make sure you're using a silicone-based oil, not traditional varieties. The garage door springs themselves should be lubricated with WD-40.
If you want to make sure your spring, close the door all the way and then yank on the release chain to disengage your garage door form the opener. More on spring checking to follow.
Posted by admin on Wednesday, 30 December 2009
Tags: Garage Door, Garage Door Opener, Garage Door Repair, Garage Door Replacement, Garage Door Installation, Garage Door Service, Garage Doors, Garage Door Services
Pretty much any garage door installation or garage door services company worth its salt will offer full assessment, delivery, removal and installation services to its customers. It stands to reason- after all, garage doors are massive pieces of equipment, heavy and pretty complex. Almost everyone investing in a new garage door will allow the company to do the installation.
But if you're confident in your own construction and physics abilities, you can save some money by doing the installation yourself. Sectional garage doors in particular require quite a bit of effort- a simple lift-up door is slightly easier.
In general, you should never try to fix, adjust, or remove your standard torsion spring garage door by yourself. The amount of tension contained within these springs can be dangerous for a single person. Call in the professionals.
But some models lend themselves to adjustment by the lay person. If you're not sure which variety you have, you probably don't know enough to be messing about with them anyway. And if you can't make heads or tails of the instructions that the manufacturer provides, again, you likely shouldn't be making the attempt. Garage doors can be quite dangerous- more so than any other appliance in your home.
Posted by admin on Tuesday, 29 December 2009
Tags: Garage Door, Garage Door Opener, Garage Door Repair, Garage Door Replacement, Garage Door Installation, Garage Door Service, Garage Doors, Garage Door Openers
A new top of the line model of garage door opener mechanism has recently hit the market. It is not widely available to general consumers yet, but it has a number of positive aspects as well as drawbacks that should make anyone in the market take pause and take note.
One of the main new improvements on the model from older version is the fact that is has a highly accurate, high-functioning self-diagnostic system designed to alert the user to any potential malfunctions or issues. It can even help install itself.
Of course, it uses infrared beams to detect objects in the path of the descending garage door and halt its progress if there is an obstruction. But that is now a basic safety feature of almost any new garage door opener. The newer model improves on the
It's also awesome because it comes with two transmitters and an insanely threatening security system that connect to your home system or actively prevent intruders from gaining access to your home. The door also automatically turns on a light when opened, and the lights are on a timer to close off again once you have left the vicinity.
All in all the new model has a ton of neat new features. The only drawback that it seems to have is the price- it's rather more expensive than older models. But it's totally worth it.
Posted by admin on Monday, 28 December 2009
Tags: Garage Door, Garage Door Opener, Garage Door Repair, Garage Door Replacement, Garage Door Installation, Garage Door Service, Garage Doors, Garage Door Openers
The most intricate and fussy part of any garage door is the garage door opener and its associated nuts, bolts, and hardware. You have to deal with the drive mechanism, the long tracks, the tightly-wound and dangerous springs, the brackets, and more. These all combine to make the garage door open nice and smooth time and time again, no matter how much you use it.
And then you must remember, not all garage door opener parts are created equal- in fact, each brand name and each model has different sizes, shapes, and parts, and some even use completely different mechanisms to operate.
In fact, there are three main category of garage door opener, including chain drive (the most basic, and noisiest), screw drive (slightly quieter but still fairly loud), and rubber belt-drive (the quietest.) These all use similar physics but different specifics to wrench open your door every day.
