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    The Simple Tip to Check your Two-Car Garage Door

    Hey readers! Today we have a pretty simple tip for your garage door care. If you have a two-car residential garage door, you can check one of the most important parts of your door’s installation without any tools or mechanical knowledge! You might ask how – and we’re going to tell you – but first, we want to remind everyone that although some simple garage door repairs can be safe for homeowners, we recommend always calling a professional when you need the garage door spring repaired or replaced. The spring is potentially extremely dangerous, and you do not want to work on it without the proper experience and tools.

  • The 7 Best Garage Door Recycling DIYs!

    When you look at your garage door, you probably don’t feel very inspired. That’s okay! Here at A Plus Garage Doors, we live and breath garage doors, and even we can understand that most homeowners aren’t exactly in love with theirs. The garage door can be an eyesore, or a headache, or just a loud grumbling part of your morning routine that is forgotten the second you close it behind you on your way to work. For some people, however, that isn’t enough. Some people look at their garage door and are inspired… Today’s blog goes out to them!

  • The ONE Simple Trick to Extend Your Garage Door’s Life!

    Do you know how to treat your garage door right? The garage door is often a mysterious part of the home to homeowners who have never seriously examined their garage door, but to the informed and vigilant homeowner, the garage door can actually be a mark of pride. Charlotte, North Carolina is home to a range of beautiful doors, but many homeowners never think to dream beyond the simple door that their home originally came with. The garage door remains an eyesore for many homeowners, who prefer to put it out-of-sight and out-of-mind rather than tend to it. Today, we’re going to tell you an insanely simple tip to extend the life of your garage door AND keep pests out of your garage. This tip is so simple that you might already be doing it and just not know how much good you’re doing, but some of you might be accidentally making this mistake and not be aware of all the potential downsides!

  • The Most Common Garage Door DIY Mistakes!

    Hello! DIY enthusiasm is at an all-time high, with sources like Pinterest and Youtube letting homeowners learn any skill they want and attempt any number of repairs or installations in their home, without the trouble and cost of hiring a professional. In many cases, a DIY approach can be just as good as the real thing – there are still, however, things that you should trust an expert to do. Not only is it safer to hire an expert, but it saves you trouble and time. There are kinds of costs besides money, after all, and if you want to avoid the DIY stress that can come with a major home project, consider hiring a professional instead of attempting to handle the job yourself. In the Charlotte area, we have responded to several homes where homeowners have tried to fix things themselves, and just as often as not homeowners end up injuring themselves or damaging their home. There is no substitute for the kind of long-term experience that we bring to the job!

  • Save Money Year Round with Insulation

    Summer is quick approaching, and soon homeowners will be back in their yards and garages, exploring their hobbies or playing with their kids. But summer brings more than just free time – it also bring sweltering heat. If you have any hobbies that you practice inside your garage, you already know how important the temperature of the garage is to your happiness. Some garages aren’t built to the same standards as normal rooms, so the walls may not be insulated, and this can easily lead to garage being freezing in the winter and burning up in the summer. No matter how much insulation the walls have, the garage door itself is a common problem point for insulation systems – the temperature outside can seep through an uninsulated door, making it impossible to spend time in the garage comfortably. An insulated residential garage door is a simple upgrade that can not only improve your quality of life, but also save you money year round!

  • How to: Check your Garage Door’s Safety Features

    Do you know what would happen if you stepped underneath your garage door? Homeowners rarely think about the true power of their garage door, but consider this – not only is the garage door the largest moving appliance in the home, but it is also extremely heavy. A two-car garage door could weigh over three hundred pounds easily! Think about that every time that you or your children run underneath the door while its opening or closing, and it might give you reason to examine the safety features of your door and make sure that they are functioning properly. Luckily, the two most basic safety features of the door are easy enough to check, and we’ll explain just what you should do now!

  • 3 Top Reasons to Upgrade Your Garage Doors

    2016 is THE year to think about your residential or commercial garage doors. If you’re a homeowner, when was the last time that you gave your garage door any attention? If you own a business, when was the last time that you even really looked at your door? Like most people, you probably forget about your garage door nine our of ten times – so long as it is working! But even if your garage door is operating perfectly, now is still a great time to upgrade it with a new garage door installation. Replacing your old and grimy garage door and garage door opener will have more of an impact on your life than you know, and we’re here to tell you why.

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    Mold Monster! What’s Lurking in your Walls?

    Is there a nasty surprise lurking in your home, hidden but threatening your family’s safety? Every homeowner knows the dangers of mold, but oftentimes mold goes unseen until it has already taken a firm hold. An improperly built garage presents a perfect environment for mold to take hold, so we’ve gathered some information that every homeowner should know – why mold will grow in your home, what you can do to prevent it before it ever appears, and how to get rid of it if you do find some! Like garage doors, homeowners can do some of the simpler preventative measures and fixes, but for more serious problems it is always better to call a professional!

  • Radio Interference and Your Garage Door Opener

    Tis the season to decorate! Many of our festive customers are decorating their homes inside and out in time for the holiday season, but what you might not have heard is that decorating your home can actually impact the function of your garage door opener! Although many homeowners won’t have any problem, certain brands and models of garage door openers can be interfered with by LED lights nearby. This might sound crazy, but the radio frequency that your garage door opener uses may be shared by some other electronics in your home, including holiday lights, and this radio wave interference can cause your opener to not operate correctly! Fortunately for you, we’ve got the scoop about what you should do to ensure that your opener is still functioning as intended.

  • Etch A Sketch: The Timeless Toy

    There are certain timeless toys that are universally associated with childhood – dolls, action figures, building blocks, and so on – but there is one common toy that very few users understand. The enigmatic Etch A Sketch has an elegant design and has remained mostly unchanged for over fifty years, but the simple secret behind its magical erasable screen is not the ultimate reason for the toy’s success. The real reason that the Etch A Sketch has remained an unchanging cultural icon for the better part of a century is that it appeals to children of every background, of every level of artistic aptitude. The Etch A Sketch is an icon, and like many other great icons that we’ve explored on Garage Greatness, it was first invented in a garage.

  • Garage Greatness: Building Your Own Nest

    How often do you adjust your home thermostat? Many thermostats are outdated eyesores, installed by contractors who are more interested in getting the lowest possible bid than they are in the comfort of their home’s future inhabitants. Also, most homeowners use their thermostat in an inefficient way, and since home temperature control accounts for as much as 10% of total energy usage in the US, even just slightly wasteful habits can mean hundreds of dollars of cost for each household – hundreds of millions, across the country. Tony Fadell is the man behind Nest, the smart thermostat that is designed to solve these problems, and he is more qualified than anyone to create cutting edge technology: before he was prototyping a thermostat in a Palo Alto garage, he was creating the iPod and iPhone at his previous executive position with Apple.

  • Pay It Forward

    This is a touching story that every parent and child can relate to, a story about how one man’s love for his family was larger than his love for any possession, and a story about how his kindness was repaid by the very people he made his sacrifice to help: his children. Like many great stories, this one begins and ends in a garage. Rich Tipton sold his Corvette in 1989 for the sake of his family, and when it was returned to him this year, he was reduced to tears instantly.