Buying a new garage door requires some planning. There are lots of good reasons to buy a replacement garage door. You may need to replace it because of age, wear or rot or you just want something that looks better. Whatever the reason, replacement creates the opportunity to upgrade. Function is important but so is the way it looks. It’s well-known that curb-appeal, the way a house looks from the street, has a lot to do with its market value. And one of the most prominent features of a house is … [Read more...]
Tips About Garage Door Maintenance
We rarely think about our garage doors and that’s a good thing. A well-designed garage door and opener will work reliably for a long time without us having to do much. But, a little garage door maintenance goes a long way to head off problems. A garage door can go up and down a thousand or more times per year. Consider a little maintenance instead of waiting until a problem develops. If doing it yourself, make sure you unplug your garage door opener before doing any maintenance so you can be … [Read more...]
Garage Door Springs and Other Reasons Garage Doors Fail to Open
American Door Masters gets a lot of calls about garage doors that don’t work. Broken garage door springs is a common reason but not the only one. Garage doors are extremely heavy so tension springs are installed to help lift the door. With properly tensioned garage door springs, you can easily open your garage door without the automatic opener using only a couple of fingers on one hand. If a tension spring breaks, it takes an extremely strong person to open the same garage door using all his … [Read more...]
Do-It-Yourself Garage Door Repair Is Dangerous
Garage door springs help to lift and lower the door using tension, and lot of it. That makes them dangerous to remove and replace. In most cases, we can replace your garage door springs professionally for less than the deductible you'd pay at the hospital emergency room. Don't end up like John! Call us at American Door Masters! 864-990-3075. … [Read more...]
Don’t let your garage door be a security problem
This comes to us from the Austin, Texas police department, but it's good advice to anyone in any city. Don't let your garage door become a weak point in your home's security. The APD reports an increase in break-ins through garage doors and offer some tips on how to make your garage more secure. Don’t leave your remote in the car. Install deadbolt locks and solid doors. Install motion detector lights. Cover windows to stop prying eyes. Disable the overhead door when away. … [Read more...]
Garage doors do a lot of work. Maintenance helps.
We never give our garage door opener a thought, until it doesn't work. Let's say it goes up 4 times a day and down 4. That's 2,920 times a year the garage door motor and mechanism is lifting or lowering the door. The motor can only lift so much so the heavy duty overhead springs are tightly coiled. The unwind and rewind to bear most of the load. And those springs have a certain amount of actions in them and then they break. That's normally when people in the Greenville area first call … [Read more...]
Secure Your Garage Door Remotes
Local police reports from around the country highlight a weak spot in home security: unsecured garage door openers. Sure we like to keep cars parked in the garage but sometime we just don't for a variety of reasons. And if we leave a car in the driveway, a garage door opener is probably left inside. It is a little inconvenient to remove a garage door opener from a car left outside, but remember that if someone breaks into your car and gets your garage door opener, he or she now may have easy … [Read more...]