Charlotte is officially experiencing the Winter cold, with temperatures below freezing most mornings and a serious windchill, but Winter is only beginning! Everyone knows how important it is to take care of your home in the cold, but knowing what that looks like can be more difficult. Luckily, we happen to be experts in everything…
Is Your Garage Door Obnoxiously Loud? Does your family wake you up when they come in late at night or leave early in the morning? Do you worry about disturbing your neighbors with the horrible grating noise? Well, you’re in luck, because these problems are fixable! Garage doors and garage door openers, like most machines,…
New Year’s Safety Tips from A Plus Garage Doors The New Year is just around the corner, making it the perfect time to set resolutions. While it’s common for resolutions to fall by the wayside, one habit worth adopting—and sticking to—is the 9 P.M. Routine. What is the 9 P.M. Routine? Unlike challenging workout regimens,…
Understanding Your Garage Door’s Photo-Eye Sensor Since 1993, all garage door systems have been required to include a crucial safety feature: the photo-eye sensor. Despite its importance, this sensor is often a common culprit behind garage door issues. Learning how the photo-eye works can help homeowners resolve minor problems without needing expert assistance. Here’s everything…
Auburn HOA’s Controversial Garage Door Policy Sparks Outrage For many American homeowners, the garage serves as a multi-purpose space—doubling as a storage room, workshop, and parking spot. It’s a secure buffer between the indoors and the outside world, protecting valuable tools, equipment, and possessions from both weather and theft. But for residents of Auburn Greens…
Before Calling a Garage Door Expert: 3 Simple Steps to Prepare When your garage door needs some TLC, an expert repair and installation company can have it working like new in no time. But before you make the call, there are a few things you can do to potentially save yourself time, effort, and money….
A Day in the Field with A Plus Garage Doors: Behind the Scenes Who’s Writing This? Longtime followers of our blog and new visitors alike will probably be surprised to learn that I am not, in fact, a garage door technician! I’m a member of the A Plus Garage Doors office team. While I work…
There’s an old adage – anything that separates you from the ground is worth spending money on. It goes for good quality shoes, it goes for good quality mattresses, and – on a related note – it goes for a comfortable pillow! Everyone knows the hotel room struggle of trying different pillows and combinations of pillows, trying to find the one with the perfect mixture of firmness and softness, but for most people this hunt isn’t inspiring. For a certain kind of entrepreneurial spirit, however, any hardship is inspiring. Mike Lindell has just that spirit.
Lindell tried everything to create the life he wanted for his family through an increasingly bizarre list of business ventures. In 2004, he finally found the million-dollar-idea – or to be more accurate, the multi-million-dollar-idea! MyPillow, a company that he begun in his residential home’s garage, has now sold over 30 MILLION pillows! Before he was the king of pillows, however, Lindell’s life followed a rocky path through business failures and drug addiction. In spite of this adversity, his drive never faltered, and Lindell has made a successful company out of humble beginnings in the family garage.
When was your residential garage door installed? Many homeowners can’t even answer that simple question, since they’ve had the same garage door for as long as they’ve lived in their home and didn’t ask the previous owners about the state of the door. For some reason, some homeowners assume that their garage door will keep working forever. Their door is big and noisy, but it works every time they press a button so it seems reasonable to assume that the door will continue working so long as no one hits it with a car!
Have you ever tried to do a home improvement job yourself to save some cash? Of course you have! Most homeowners have a little D-I-Y spirit in them and tackling a problem yourself can be convenient and quick. With the rise of Youtube’s How To videos and Pintrest’s step-by-step guides, you can usually find some help for whatever needs doing just by looking around online. There are a couple of areas, however, that no homeowner should try to DIY.