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...

Garage Door Advancements in Energy Efficiency, Safety and Curb Appeal

Earl Rivard Garage doors just aren't what they used to be. They are now eye-catching, beautiful and even considered “cool”. In a marketplace where enhanced curb appeal, residential diversity, and neotraditional architecture are in demand by municipalities, there is an onslaught of more unique garage door styles, especially steel, three-section, carriage house-style garage doors.  The carriage house door has created some true excitement in the building community. You can't walk on the floor of a residential door or builder’s trade show these days without seeing a profusion of steel carriage house-style garage...

Garage Doors Are the Threshold of a Home

Earl Rivard The 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...

The Garage Door: A Fundamental Part of the Blueprint of a Home

By Earl Rivard If you fancy taking full advantage of the worth of your home, you'll find garage doors are an easy and affordable method to increase your homes curb appeal. A good garage door will distinguish it from the rest of the neighborhood. The most common types and those offering the widest variety of designs are sectional garage doors. They open and shut vertically, allowing cars to park very close to the door without keeping it from opening. If you want a maintenance-free, durable, warp-free garage door, you need steel....

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...

Making Your Life Easier: Garage Door Opener Accessories

Technology is an evolving trend that affects all of our lives.  These advances have made it possible to integrate technology into your home.  Who would have thought that you could have automated solutions to help you park your car, have secondary power source for your garage door operator, automatically close your garage door and even notify you when you garage door is open.  With all the technology, these different accessories require almost no tools.  There are a few products currently available in the market.  From the Chamberlain Group there is the 975LM...

Garage Door Openers Operating Manuals

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...

False Alarms

A burglar alarm can initiate a considerable response by police or private security personnel, who may leave other important duties to race to the scene of the alarm. Therefore, it is important to prevent false alarms when designing and installing alarm systems. Modern burglar alarms make use of several different technologies to reduce false alarms. Passive infrared detectors can be programmed to ignore the first movement detected, as in when the intruder moves from one detection zone to another, and to sound the alarm only when the movement passes through two or more detection zones within a specified period...

FCC Public Notice for Garage Door Opener Interference, Feb. 15, 2005

Press Contact: Bruce Romano: 202-418-2124 DA 05-424 February 15, 2005 Consumers near certain military installations have recently experienced interference to their garage door opener controls that may reduce the operating distance or cause the device to stop operating. This public notice is issued to explain the cause of the interference and the steps being taken to alleviate this problem....