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Choosing Your Garage Door Style

When replacing a garage door thereare many components to take into consideration, such as, which garage door belt is needed or whatmotor works best for the size.Anotherimportant aspect to take into consideration, which is certainly the mostnoticeable, is the exterior of the garage door.Taking up a lot of exterior space the garage door can add curb appeal inan instant to any home. Many houses these days are builtwith the garage door visible from the street, and as mentioned earlier, it isone of t...

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United Garage Doors Staff 1/5/2012 3:18:00 PM Comments(0)

How to Install a Garage Door Opener

First thing you have to do is followinstructions.Keep the manual for yourdoor and the opener of your door handy for easy reference in case a problemoccurs. Make sure you have everything foryour garage door working together as a system.This means make sure you have the correct tracks and springs for YOURtype of garage door.This will help witha longer life and a better performance level from your door.Depending on the sections, parts and weightof the door, certain tracks may not be worth the few...

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United Garage Doors Staff 10/14/2011 2:32:00 PM Comments(0)

Replace your garage door for hurricane season

Your garage door may be working just fine when it comes to opening and closing for your car every day, however; will your garage be able to withhold hurricane force winds during hurricane season? Hurricane season for the Atlantic begins May 15th and lasts until November 30th. This means there is still over a month of hurricane season left and next years season just around the corner. Living in Florida there is a constant threat of the next hurricane to come and residents have grown accustom to b...

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united garage doors staff 9/19/2011 11:55:00 AM Comments(0)

How to Check and Repair Your Garage Door

If you have checked the tracks, making sure they arestraight, have no dents, and are properly cleaned and oiled, then your problemmay tem from another part of the garage door system.Check all over for loose hardware, andtighten as necessary, including the plates where the springs are mounted onswing-up doors and on the hinges that hold the sections of the door together onroll-up doors.Sagging on one side ofthe door or another can often be rectified by checking all of the hinges andtightening the...

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United Garage Doors Staff 8/19/2011 5:28:00 PM Comments(0)

Garage Door Repair - Tracks

Something wrong with your garage door?It could be a number of things, but neverfear – most are easily fixable.If youhave an overhead garage door, regardless of whether it rolls up in sections orswings up in one piece, it works on the principle of spring tension.That is, it is pulled by a heavy spring orsprings along a metal track in order to open the door.The first thing you will want to check if you are havingtrouble with your garage door is the metal tracks inside the garage.A lot of the...

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United Garage Doors Staff 8/12/2011 4:58:00 PM Comments(0)