Safety

Make sure mother nature stays where she belongs, outside your garage.

In winter, it’s tricky to keep your energy up, especially by the end of the day. All you want to do is slip inside, get your slippers on, and enjoy time with the family during the holiday season. You pull up to your home and hit the garage door opener button. You wait a moment, try again, but nothing happens! It can’t be the door opener remote, you just changed the batteries! Oh dear, it looks like you have to reprogram the LiftMaster by Chamberlain garage door opener!

Power outages happen in all areas of the world, no matter what the weather is usually like. Almost everyone has experienced one at one time or another, be it due to a thunderstorm, rolling blackout, or a blown fuse that ends up affecting the entire street. The last time it happened to you, maybe you were coming home from an exhausting day at work. Maybe it was a family trip when everyone was ready to get home and comfortable, or maybe you were already cooped up inside with a gaggle of rowdy children ready to get outside for some fun… No matter the situation, a power outage is a source of frustration and a wrench thrown in the day that no one wants to have to deal with.

Spring Break is always fun, right? Not all of them! This spring breaking comes with startling sounds from your garage and might even lead to damage!

At some point, we all do it. You pull up to the house in a rush, push the button on the opener, park and then run inside to handle an emergency. Maybe the kids are out playing and need the garage door open, so they can get their toys out and then put them up. Whatever the case, you end up leaving the garage door open overnight. That’s no big deal, right? Actually, it is a bigger deal than you might realize.

Unscrupulous garage door companies work with unqualified subcontractors or hire technicians without the proper knowledge, skills and equipment. If you have had an experience with one of these unprofessional companies, then you may find it difficult to trust any garage door business. You should know that there are good garage door businesses. You can find them if you know what to look for. Here are some tips for eliminating poor companies and finding the right garage door firm to meet your needs in a trustworthy and professional way.

Look, I get it, your garage door was a BIG investment, and the last thing you want is to have to spend EVEN MORE money getting it repaired every couple of years. Well, I’ve got good news for you! If you do these four things, your garage door should be in top working order for decades to come! Let’s start at the beginning…

New garage doors are equipped with safety features that help prevent accidents or other dangers from occurring. Keeping your garage safe, however, involves more than locking the door at night. There is a multitude of avoidable vulnerabilities that you can prevent through simple prevention and security monitoring methods. (...)

We often use our garage doors without even thinking about it or worrying whether everything is working correctly or not. You press the button on your remote and poof! The door opens. Then you hear some bizarre noises… Don’t panic! First of all, you should understand that the movement of the garage door and the action of your door opener involve a certain amount of noise. Here’s a list of eight things you can look at to determine the source of these noises. It will only take you a few minutes. (...)