How often do you use your garage door? Even if you open and close it only when you're leaving for work or coming home, that's a total of approximately 500 times per year. All that wear and tear puts a lot of strain on your garage door ...
Tags: pulleys, bearings, rollers, Construction
Safety Tip Extension springs should always be restrained with a safety cable that ties it to a solid point on the horizontal door track. This will ensure that it doesn't 'fly-off' in case the pulley, cable, or the spring itself breaks ...
Tags: Garage Door, Construction
Car garages are modern equivalents of the horse stables of old! However, the comparison ends there. Unlike the stables, the garages are completely automated nowadays, with garage door openers and modern security devices. The things that ...
Tags: Garage Door Spring, Spring, Construction
Garage door repairs are tricky jobs but not that difficult. Adjusting garage door springs on your own is easily possible, if you follow the safety guidelines and go about it in the right manner. When you don't have a handyman around, your ...
Tags: Garage Door Springs, Spring, Construction, Decoration
When you keep your vehicle inside your garage, you can rest assured that it is in a safe custody. However, if the garage door is not functioning properly then it causes a lot of annoyance. As it is not opening or closing easily, taking the ...
Tags: Garage Door, Construction, Decoration
Garage door repair is not exactly a routine thing. However, once in a while you may have to look into it, because one fine day you do not want your garage door to collapse, right? It may happen that during this you might need the help of a ...
Tags: Garage Door, Door
It is Sunday and you have planned a nice morning out at a picturesque place. You want to make sure that your car is in a good shape so you head towards the garage. The moment you open the garage door, you hear a squeaky sound. You try to ...
Tags: Fix Garage Door, Construction, Decoration
Torsion springs and extension springs are used for garage doors. Long and heavy springs, attached to the upper portion of the door are called extension springs. They are also known as side-mounted springs. Torsion springs, on the other ...
Tags: Garage Door, Torsion Springs