Posted by Sasha the garage door replacement expert on Thursday, 11 March 2010
Tags: custom garage door, los angeles, Garage Door
The difference between a standard garage door and a custom garage door is on the details, custom garage doors and crafted in our garage door factories located in Southern California, mesa garage doors has three locations where we custom craft garage doors. Our pool of garage door craftsman are highly skilled in the art of custom garage door making. Some of our 50 garage door craftsmen based in our Los Angeles garage door manufacturing plant have been with our company for over 20 years, well that seems impressive some of the garage door craftsman based in our Orange County garage door manufacturing plant have been with the company since day one, combined we have centuries of knowledge in the art of crafting custom-made garage doors for a wide range of home types of garage styles. There isn't a garage door that we have not manufactured in a 20+ year history.
Mesa garage doors has single-handedly transformed the face more Los Angeles home garages in any company on the planet. With close to 300,000 garage doors installed to date there is not a company out there that has more experience and know-how in the art of garage door manufacturing and installation.
Posted by Erica on Thursday, 04 March 2010
Tags: Garage Door, Garage Doors, Garage Door Opener, Garage Door Openers, garage door installment, Garage Door Repair, Garage Door Services, Garage Door Replacement, garage door insulation
Just like people, garage doors need periodic checkups to make sure everything is in good working order for the upcoming year or two.
So where a doctor might check your throat and in your ears and up your nose, a garage door repair person might have a look at the cables, the springs, and the rollers. Where a doctor might decide to give you some main medication, a garage door services person would lubricate some moving parts and tighten up the hinges and tracks, the hardware. And where you might have your eyes checked up, so would a garage door! The sensors of the reversal mechanism are somewhat like laser eyes, and they need to be in good working order in order for it to function correctly an safely.
And just like people's backs might go out, it's also pretty common for a garage door opener to lose its drive gear- either the chain, the belt, or the screw gets old and wears out. And that doesn't necessarily mean you need to replace the entire opener- just the one part will do.
And just like your knees might go out (or one other the other), one or the other of the springs of a garage door are liable to wear out and have problems.
Posted by ESP on Thursday, 04 March 2010
Tags: Garage Door, Garage Doors, Garage Door Opener, Garage Door Openers, garage door installment, Garage Door Repair, Garage Door Services, Garage Door Replacement, garage door insulation
If you have small children in your home, you have to be especially careful with your garage door- garage doors are the biggest, heaviest moving part of your home and can easily injure people, especially those of us with small little fingers and bad coordination.
For one thing, teach your kids to never run or play near or under the door in much the way you teach them not to run in the street- a strict, hard-and-fast rule!
Secondly, tell your kids that they may not play with the garage door opener remote. It's best to keep it out of their reach in the first place. And if your garage has one of those keypads that can be accessed from outside, you have to take extra care to teach them proper conduct. Do not ever allow them to play with the wall-button that controls the garage door. If you can, have it installed higher than they can currently reach. Hopefully, by the time they can reach it, they'll know better.
And if your kids have friends over and they plan to play outside by the garage door, make sure their friends know they're not to play with the button or play near the open door.
Posted by Anne Richards on Friday, 26 February 2010
Tags: Garage Door, Garage Doors, Garage Door Opener, Garage Door Openers, garage door installment, Garage Door Repair, Garage Door Services, Garage Door Replacement, garage door insulation
Oh, February- April's got nothing on you. Sleet and snow, icy rain and gusting winds. How is your home holding up against this nasty post-Christmas pre-Spring Break grossness?
If you're anything like most people, you've probably got a few things that aren't working, or are frozen shut, or in general just being a fail.
But there are a few things you can do to make sure this doesn't happen to your garage door! Let nothing come between you and parking inside a toasty, warm space.
The best way to keep heat loss in check during the winter is to install some drywall to the rafters in your garage- heat rises and is likely rising right out of the roof. You should definitely also make sure you have garage door insulation, as that can stop a huge percentage of energy loss.
Another issue to contend with is automatic garage door openers- they tend to get 'stuck' during the winter due to all of the ice. A way to help prevent this is to make sure all of the parts are well-lubricated with WD-40. Anything thicker or stickier will actually cause the door to get stuck in cold weather. It's a fact of life that liquids become more viscous as the temperature drops, and moister as it rises. So invest in a lubricant that won't become a solid at ten below.
Posted by ESP on Friday, 26 February 2010
Tags: Garage Door, Garage Doors, Garage Door Opener, Garage Door Openers, garage door installment, Garage Door Repair, Garage Door Services, Garage Door Replacement, garage door insulation
Another update from the world of stupid property damage: a thirty-year-old DUI and 'felony property damage' suspect actually TRYING to destroy a garage door.
Normally people just do it accidentally through their own incompetence and drunkenness. But no, this man forcefully rammed his huge black SUV into a woman's home repeatedly, allegedly screaming obscenities, before screeching off leaving thousands of dollars of property damage in his wake.
According to the witness, he shouted "And that's what you get, you b****!" as he pulled away. The relationship past or present between the arrested man and the victim of this crime is unknown, but one must wonder what a garage door could have possibly done to him to deserve such treatment.
Oh, on second thought- it was probably the HOMEOWNER he was talking to. But still.
And apparently this idiot had a history- his driver's license had already been suspended for five whole years thanks to other DUI convictions. And get this- when he was pulled over after someone saw him careening along the highway, he denied driving at all. When the police finally got him steady enough to take a breathalyzer test, he blew a .23, so far above the legal limit that he should have been in the hospital for alcohol poisoning.
In fact, this guy's apparently such an alcoholic that this is his third DUI. In combination with the new battery and criminal property damage charges, he's looking at a lot of time, most likely.
Posted by Erica on Friday, 26 February 2010
Tags: Garage Door, Garage Doors, Garage Door Opener, Garage Door Openers, garage door installment, Garage Door Repair, Garage Door Services, Garage Door Replacement, garage door insulation
Another fabulous thing you can do to check that your beloved garage door is in perfect working condition is to test the manual opening system, not just the electric garage door opener. Disconnect your automatic opener- to do this, yank firmly on the release lever or release cord (should be pretty obvious, they're often marked with red or orange plastic). Once you do this, the door should be easily liftable into manual mode. If you're having a hard time lifting it (or it sinks quickly), there is probably something off with the door. Have a professional check the spring tension, as a tightly wound garage door spring is a very dangerous thing.
If, on the other hand, there is a problem with the opener, there are other measures you can take. If your door isn't reversing like it's supposed to when it encounters and obstruction (and you should definitely be checking for this, especially if you have small pets or children) there could be something wrong with the sensors. The automatic reversal function operates via optic infrared sensors that detect when the beam between them is disrupted. If they are not correctly wired or perfectly aligned, or have been damaged, or have some sort of gunk covering them. Clean them up and make sure everything is correctly attached. If that's not possible, or there seems to be permanent damage, you may need to replace them. You'll probably, again, need to contact a professional garage door services person for this, since there parts are notoriously difficult to obtain as a regular consumer.
In general, you probably shouldn't be taking any hardware from your garage door set up without help, because it's hard to fully understand how these parts interact and can react to your meddling, and you might injure yourself or damage your equipment.
Garage door parts have been known to cause concussions and take fingers. Unless you are a semi-pro do-it-yourself-er, you'll need to call in the professionals.
Posted by Erica on Wednesday, 24 February 2010
Tags: Garage Door, Garage Doors, Garage Door Opener, Garage Door Openers, garage door installment, Garage Door Repair, Garage Door Services, Garage Door Replacement, garage door insulation
In what has now become a tradition here, I bring you another update on an inebriated, extremely un-smart person who destroyed a perfectly good garage door with negligence and poor decisions.
Lat week around midnight a police sergant attempted to pull over what appeared to be an inebriated motorist near a gas-station. The man behind the wheel basically ignored the sirens and flashing lights and kept on driving home. It must have been like a slow-speed chase in which the man on the run leads you right to his front door. What an idiot.
As the driver pulled up to his house, the police officer tried to engage the driver but he just drove right through the garage door. The police officer the npulled in beside him, and the driver tried to close the broken garage door with the officer inside.
In the end, he was charged with a DUI, resisting arrest, and what is known as felony flight. (The correct term for all of those high-speed chases we see on TV)
He could have avoided two of those charges if he had just pulled over right away. And he could have avoided all of this if he had decided to call a cab instead. And then he wouldn't have destroyed a perfectly good garage door in the process.
Posted by ESP on Monday, 22 February 2010
Tags: Garage Door, Garage Doors, Garage Door Opener, Garage Door Openers, garage door installment, Garage Door Repair, Garage Door Services, Garage Door Replacement, garage door insulation
Although we don't tend to think about these things, the fact that garage door openers operate via radio waves is kind of amazing. The idea that the frequency of an undulating waveform through space is enough to transmit information and command a huge garage door to open is really a stroke of genius.
In fact, you can perform a couple of quick little experiments to show just how much science is really going on with your garage door opener every single day.
For example, if you try to block the signal of your garage door opener with your hand, by covering up the remote as you push the button, you'll probably notice that it doesn't make a difference. Why doesn't your hand stop the radio waves?
But then, if you cover your opener with aluminum or tin foil and then try to push the button, you might notice the garage door doing something a little more interesting... that is, not obeying your command! And why is that?
Then try placing the remote underneath a metal colander (yes, the pasta strainer with holes) and observe what happens. (If you can't figure out how to push the button while keeping it under the colander, try a metal skewer!) What happens? Does the door open?
And last but not least, try putting a portable radio next to the opener and tuning it up and down the spectrum, pushing the button, to see if at any point it interferes with the communications.
What causes some things to block radio wave communication and not others? Stay tuned to find out!
Posted by Anne Richards on Saturday, 20 February 2010
Tags: Garage Door, Garage Doors, Garage Door Opener, Garage Door Openers, garage door installment, Garage Door Repair, Garage Door Services, Garage Door Replacement, garage door insulation
The more modern a garage door you have, the more safety features and options will be available to you. Garage doors in general are both vulnerable to penetration from the outside, and very dangerous in and of themselves. They are likely the largest moving part in your home and can pose a threat to small children, animals, and even adults.
Most new doors have an automatic reversal function- that is, when they detect something is in the path of the descending door, they immediately begin reversing such that the garage door doesn't crush whatever it is. They accomplish this by using either motion detectors or laser sensor 'eyes' that can sense an object that breaks their path to one another.
Many doors also come with an external keyless locking mechanism, which is great for convenience, but if anyone sees you putting your code in, can be hacked. It's probably a good idea to change your code up fairly frequently, especially if you noted anyone in your general vicinity while you were entering it.
The heyday of 'code grabber' technology is largely past- most garage door opener remotes now come with 'rolling code' technology such that their hailing frequencies can't be hacked. But it's always a good idea to flip the switches inside the remote and inside the opener to change them from their factory settings.
Posted by Jim on Saturday, 20 February 2010
Tags: Garage Door, Garage Doors, Garage Door Opener, Garage Door Openers, garage door installment, Garage Door Repair, Garage Door Services, Garage Door Replacement, garage door insulation
I came across this story in the news the other day, and it struck me as (besides pertinent to the topic of garage doors) somewhat amusing and somewhat disturbing. Tell me your guys' take on it:
apparently, a man who used to be a Doctor in a small Georgia town was charged the other day of 'criminal harassment' and 'mischief'. (I didn't know there was actually a crime called "mischief".) The disgruntled MD was caught on a surveillance camera, vigorously tagging a garage door with spray paint.
This was the only incident caught on tape, but apparently it is not the first instance of vandalism perpetrated against the woman's home. The victim is the ex-wife of the doctor. They were recently divorced and he was denied custody of their daughter, relegated to very limited visitation rights because of the manner in which he lost his license- inappropriate liaisons with his patient.
Or, one male patient in particular. And the video from the tagging suggests that the doctor may have had an accomplice.
The Doctor was arrested a month ago and his trial is still pending.
