What to Do When Your Garage Door Won’t Close: Troubleshooting Tips
It’s frustrating to have a malfunctioning garage door, especially when you’re in a hurry to leave the house or store something in the garage. If your garage door won’t close, don’t panic just yet. Here are some troubleshooting tips to help you solve the problem: 1. Check the photo-eye sensors The most common reason why […]
Quality Garage Door Services and Daylight Savings
Maintaining the quality of your garage door is essential. With the clocks going back next week on March 12th it is a good reminder to take care of the bi-annual maintenance items around your house, like changing the batteries in the smoke alarms and of course lubricating and inspecting the garage door. The extreme temperature […]
How to Make Garage Door Quieter
We all know how loud and disruptive a noisy garage door can be, especially if you have bedrooms above the garage and people trying to sleep. Luckily, there are several things you can do to help make your garage door quieter. Oil and Lubricate One of the easiest ways to reduce the noise coming from […]
Tis the Season to Love Your Garage Door with 3 Tips to Get Ready for Winter
The cold weather is coming, and that means it’s time to start preparing your garage door for winter. If you want to make sure your garage door is ready for the harsh conditions, love your garage door this season and follow these three tips: 1. Check the weather seal to make sure it’s in good […]
Balance And Your Garage Door, Why Is It Important?
Today, I want to talk a little bit about the Garage Door balance. What is it and why is it important? So basically when we check to see if a garage door is balanced. We’re asking how heavy or how light it is with the springs. A garage door properly balanced should go up and […]
Garage Door Won’t Stay Closed…Floor Reverse
A garage door that won’t stay closed can be a frustrating ordeal especially if you are on the way out the door. Today we are in Sparta, NJ with a garage door that is floor reversing. As the door comes down, it hits the floor and then starts coming right back up. This most likely […]
Garage Door Springs, What You Need to Know!
Today, I want to talk a little bit about Garage Door Springs, probably one of the most important parts of your garage door. It’s actually what lifts and lowers the door. The spring acts as a counterbalance. And as the door lifts, the spring releases tension until the doors open and the spring is fully […]
Dangerous Broken Garage Door Back Hang
We’re in Wharton New Jersey with a bit of a dangerous one today. We found a broken garage door back hang that was made with cheaper thinner steel that had snapped due to the pressure of the extension spring running from the steel to the front of the door. It caused this back hang to […]
How to Close Garage Door Manually in an Emergency
You are getting ready to run out the door. You are in a rush, you hop in the car back out of the garage and go to close the door and it will not close. Luckily there is an emergency release to close the garage door manually until a qualified garage door service technician can […]
Garage Door Opener Lightning Strike
Today in Sparta, New Jersey we are working with a Liftmaster Garage Door Opener completely dead after a garage door opener lightning strike. Usually, that’s a bad circuit board which is odd considering it did have a surge protector, but it seems like it’s still got it. So hopefully a new circuit board is going […]
