What Are Auto Reverse Garage Door Openers? The Consumer Product Safety Commission’s (CPSC) Improvement Act of 1990 requires that automatic residential garage door openers manufactured on or after January 1, 1991 conform to the entrapment protection requirements of the Underwriters Laboratories (UL) Standard for Safety, UL 325. Entrapment in this instance refers to someone (particularly …
How to Avoid Costly Repairs for Your Garage Door The amount of wear and tear on your garage door is enormous. This big, heavy door opens up and down (or in some cases, side to side) at least once a day, oft times more. A garage door covers the largest exposure to the outside of …
Automatic Garage Door Opener: Activate! Imagine not having to put the car in Park, unbuckling your seatbelt, and walking out into the cold/heat/rain/snow to open your garage door? Imagine that, at the touch of a button, your garage door will begin to open, smoothly and quietly, while the lights go on inside to guide you …
Residential garage doors: What could go wrong? Your home’s garage door is a deceptively complex piece of machinery, even if your home has a manually operated single door. The mechanisms that make a garage door easy to open and a cinch to shut closed don’t often break, but when they do, the repair may not …
Springs, and cables, and brackets, oh my! Most models of residential garage doors that operate manually are built with one type of spring or another that make opening and closing a heavy garage door a one-hand job. These springs are made of heavy metal wire and, when installed, are under pressure to make opening and …