Waking up one morning only to find that your garage door just isn’t opening is not the ideal scenario. Once your car is locked in your garage, you suddenly realize how much power your garage door has over you, and you shouldn't like it. Instead, keep your garage door and the garage door opener hap…Read More
As we’ve discussed in previous articles, an unbalanced garage door is much more unhealthy for a garage door opener than an unbalanced diet is for you. At worse, you might put on a couple more pounds, but your garage door opener will simply sputter out and there won’t be much that even Door Docto…Read More
In general, your garage door is not a pain. You come home, you press the button on your dash or key ring, the door rises. You get up, press the button on the wall, drive your car out, press the button on the dash and it closes in your rearview mirror as you head to work. It lives a simple life and, …Read More
A garage door is one of those appliances, much like your fridge, that you rarely think about until it’s not working. In fact, essentially all of your appliances you likely take for granted until they break. The trick is preventing this breakage down the road by taking a couple of preemptive steps …Read More
It may be a 21st-century issue, but garage doors and the garage door opener inside your garage can be pretty loud and obnoxious. You’d think since we’re just about to get automated cars on a wide-spread level, you would hope that they’d be able to figure a way out to open a garage door at 6 AM…Read More
It’s no huge shocker that Craftsman Garage door openers are widely regarded as the most popular garage door opener on the market. They’re simplistic, they offer DIY installation, plenty of replacement parts and a varied set of options as far as belt drives, screw drives and other types. Whether …Read More
Craftsman garage door openers are probably one of the most common versions of residential garage door openers. They’re sold at Sears stores everywhere, you can find them online, with spare parts readily available and they’re getting more cutting edge by the minute. With new safety features and w…Read More
The hardest part about scheduling a garage door opener installation or repair is figuring out the time frame. If you’re getting ready to try and invest your own time into replacing your garage door opener, we’d caution against it for several reasons. But, if you still feel the need to try your h…Read More
There is always a litany of reasons to get something new. When you’re shopping at Best Buy and you get to see all of the new perks and gadgets it can be hard to logically deduce if you truly do need a new appliance or flat screen TV, or if you just really want that one you’re looking at that y…Read More
So many folks will readily list off the old adage “don’t fix it if it ain't broke,” but that only works as a good guideline if everybody involved has a proper understanding of the definition of “broke.” Sometimes, it can make sense to update something that is strictly speaking not “broke…Read More