Opener shopping is where most people discover that the thing they thought was one product is actually three quite different machines. A chain drive, a belt drive and a wall-mount jackshaft all open the same door; they fail differently, they sound different through a bedroom floor, and two of the three care a great deal […]
In a wind storm, the garage door is usually the largest single opening in a Southwest Florida house and the one least able to argue with pressure. It is a big, comparatively thin surface hung on rollers in a track, and if it fails, the storm does not merely get inside the garage. It gets […]
It is one of the more confusing garage door faults, because everything sounds like it is working. You press the button, the motor runs for a few seconds, the light comes on, and the door sits exactly where it was. Nothing is obviously broken and nothing is obviously wrong. What has almost always happened is […]
Garage door cables almost never fail without notice. Weeks or months before one lets go, it starts shedding wire strands — a few fine metal whiskers that catch a rag, a rust-coloured smear on the drum, a faint clicking as the door rises. Most people never look, because the cables sit at the far left […]
There are two entirely different spring systems holding up residential garage doors, and most homeowners have no idea which one is above their head until the day it lets go. That is fine right up until you need a part, because the two systems fail differently, behave differently while failing, and are not interchangeable. Knowing […]
Ask three people whether an insulated garage door is worth it in Ontario and you will get three confident answers. The honest one is that it depends on a handful of specifics about your garage, and most of them have nothing to do with the door. Here is how to work out which side of […]
A garage door that starts down, stops, and rolls back up is almost never a broken door. It is the safety reversing system doing exactly what it was designed to do, based on information that happens to be wrong. Photo-eye sensors have been required on residential garage door openers in the United States for decades. […]
Front Doors Types of Front Doors Single Acting Doors This is the most common type of door, which is hinged on one side and opens in one direction. Single acting doors are definitely a good choice when you have ample space to swing them in and keep open. You can also consider the double-acting […]