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Garage Door Accessories

The garage door is the most important piece of the garage, and one that marks the style of the garage. With great styles to choose from, a home owner can increase their home’s curb appeal by just changing the garage door. But working in the back ground are many garage door accessories, that make our lives easier. The remote garage door opener is one that has been around for a while, but that has made opening and closing the garage manually, obsolete. The days of tugging and pulling a heavy wooden garage door...

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Garage Doors In Modern Times

Earl Rivard Garage is the shelter for your car. That is its main function. Hence, most people then think about their garage doors as strictly functional. They protect the contents of the garage. Now, more and more people care about how they look. The garage doors have to look good and welcoming. Garage doors after all make a huge personal statement about one's taste and style. The garage is considered the threshold of a home. First thing that we come faced up with when we enter a house is usually the...

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Garage Door Opener "How-to" Installation

Garage Door Opener "How-to" Installation Please find below the general guidelines on how to install a garage door opener. Those are general guidelines since garage opener installation manuals are specific to the model and brand of the manufacturer. These are but guidelines to give you an idea of what entails installing a garage opener, this will help you decide if you want to undertake that project or at the very least, understand what an installer will be doing. The information in this installation guide have been furnished by the National Retail...

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Garage Door Opener Parts – What Does Each Part Do?

Garage door opener parts comprise the working system of the garage door. These parts help the garage door move up and down. In order for the garage door opener to work properly, the parts have to be installed correctly so that they can work together. Motor and Gears - One of the parts of the garage door opener is the motor. This is the part that is used to provide power to the garage doors so that they can move to open and close. The motor operates when someone uses a remote, a keyless...

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Garage Door Replacement

By Earl Rivard Garage doors are used regularly and are subject to much wear and tear. So sooner or later, the need for replacing the garage door arises. Nowadays, manufacturers of garage doors are offering numerous novel features that were not available in the past. Garage doors these days are insulated, providing warmth as well as barring out noise. Your kids can put up band practice sessions for hours in such garages without busting the eardrums of your neighbors. Security systems...

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Garage Door Safety by 1st United Door Technologies, Inc.

A garage door is the largest moving object in the home. These doors are often operated by electric door openers. Proper installation, operation, maintenance, and testing of the garage door and automatic opener are necessary to provide safe, trouble-free operation. Here are some helpful safety tips. This list is not intended to be a comprehensive list of every safety...

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Garage Door Safety – Protecting Your Vehicle…and Your Life! by Arden Mellor

Your garage door – well, it’s just kind of there, isn’t it? It goes up when you press the button and goes down when you press the button. You go in. You go out. You probably just take it for granted, don’t you? But there’s one thing you really need to be aware of – garage door safety. Garage door openers were convenient, but dangerous! The invention of garage door openers were very welcome, especially in the regions that had regular inclement weather. Having to get in and out of your car,...

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