Posts Tagged ‘garage door repair’
Get started envisioning what your home will look like with a new garage door…or doors. Use our Door Imagination System. Check out some of our recent installs below:
One Clear Choice has fourteen fleet trucks, professional technicians, and is the only company that posts pricing on our website for the most common garage door problems, so you don’t have to guess.
Discover why we are Colorado’s fastest growing garage door company. Call us for service today. Thank you, Colorado!
My garage door was operating very jerky and noisy. I was afraid it was going to jump the track when I opened it, so I phoned for service. Ron Burns of One Clear Choice analyzed the problem quickly and made the proper adjustment. He also pointed out other potential problems and performed preventive maintenance overall, which I greatly appreciated. I couldn’t be more pleased. Now the door opens smoothly and quietly, and I’m not afraid what will happen when I push the button! This company offers great, on-time service that I would highly recommend.
- Carol Hall from Loveland, CO
Pop quiz: What is likely the largest, heaviest moving object in your home? Here are a few hints: it provides security and protects against the elements. If insulated and newer, it will help your home conserve energy. And it allows you and your family convenient access to and from your home.
Answer: It’s your garage door.
But do you know how to operate and maintain your garage door safely? Do your kids know the potential hazards that a garage door may present? The Garage Door Safety Quiz, found at www.garagedoorcare.com, can help.
“At only five questions long, the quiz will take you just a few minutes to complete,” says Chris Long, managing director of the International Door Association, a trade association comprised of more than 2,000 door and access system dealers and installers worldwide, which manages the website. “But knowing the answers to those five questions can help keep you and your family safe from potential garage door hazards.”
Here are a few things to think about that will help build your knowledge of garage door safety:
* A moving garage door can pose a risk for injury, or even death
* Children or adults should never stand, run, or play under or near any garage door – especially when the door is open or moving
* It’s important that children realize that the garage door and its associated parts are not toys. Like elevator buttons and your television’s remote control buttons, the buttons on your remote garage door opener may be enticing for children to press. Adults should not allow children access to the remote opener, and push button wall controls should be installed at least five feet off the ground, out of the reach of children.
It’s particularly important that parents learn about children and garage door safety. A special learning tool on the website entitled “D.O.O.R. Safe” contains four brief messages to help parents teach young children the dos and don’ts of garage doors, such as:
* Doors are heavy – never stand, run or play under or near any garage door.
* Openers are for adults – never play with the button on the wall that opens and closes the garage door.
* Ouch – never touch any part of a moving garage door. Your fingers and hands can get hurt.
* Remotes are for adults – never play with the remote control in the car or on Mom and Dad’s keychain.
Installing or repairing a garage door may also be dangerous to even the most avid do-it-yourselfer. While there are many maintenance checks that you can perform yourself – like monthly tests that include visual inspections, door balance, reversing mechanism, photo eye, force setting and a semi-annual lubrication – there are some tasks that are best left to a professional. For example, door installation, annual maintenance or repair of a garage door’s springs or cables should be performed by a trained service technician.
It’s pretty simple. Garage doors are what we do. We service Arvada, Aurora, Brighton, Centennial, Castle Rock, Denver, Fort Collins, Littleton, Loveland, Thornton, and every neighborhood in between.
We also sell and install hardware, openers, accessories, remotes, springs, and pretty much anything related to garage doors and garage door operation.
Call us today! We would love to help you!
Did you know that 90% of the garage door companies found on the Better Business Bureau (BBB) website are uninsured one-man operations run from their homes?
These “companies” can cause problems for homeowners who utilize their services, such as:
1. Availability of personnel and/or parts to customers should problems arise.
2. Many times they are not prepared to complete the job due to inadequate inventory.
3. If a company is run by one person, and that one person decides to quit, they can disappear overnight.
When you need garage door service or repair, find a strong company that has the resources to best serve your needs.
Signs of this type of company:
1. Hires and trains employees, not sub-contractors.
2. Has a fleet of fully stocked trucks, not a single unmarked truck with some parts.
3. Has a showrooms and a warehouse.
4. Has 24-hour customer service, not a cell phone answered between jobs.
One Clear Choice has worked hard to get you the quality you need and credentials you should expect, as well as the bare minimums mentioned above. We are backed by Tom Martino, an A+ BBB Rating, and the Good Housekeeping Seal of Approval through our exclusive Authorized Dealer Status with Clopay. We are members of the IDA and have over 300 positive reviews found on verified third party sites such as Service Magic, Angie’s List, and the Referralist. We are also active in the community.
There are a lot of choices. Make your One Clear Choice.
Make sure you check your mail and open up that Valpak envelope for savings from One Clear Choice!
Some of the specials we are currently offering with Valpak:
- All Springs Buy 1, Get 1 FREE – or – $69.00 OFF Any Repair.
- Noisy Door? 10 Rollers FREE with Safety Tune-Up. Call for details.
- FREE INSTALLATION with purchase of LiftMaster Opener. Call for pricing.
- Single Doors 8×7 starting at $439 INSTALLED.
Call for details. Conditions may apply. Offers may expire 8/31/12. For more offers, visit our Specials page.
In this recent article for the Miami Herald, Angie of the famed Angie’s List discusses simple and affordable (under $2,000) ways to update your home to make it sell faster. One of the first things she mentions is replacing your garage door and/or front entry door, since the “exterior of the home is what is going to make the first impression on a buyer.”
We can help you with more than just your garage door. We can also help you completely organize your garage by installing storage solutions for you.
HyLoft accessories provide endless ways to maximize space and neatly store miscellaneous items up off the floor and out of the way. Hang bikes, tools, sporting goods, lawn chairs and much, much more.
Check out our storage solutions below:
Wow! We can’t believe it’s already July 10th. As a service to our customers, we like to summarize our top 10 most-viewed posts and pages during the past month. This provides a kind of shortcut to the information people look for on our site the most often.
Not surprisingly, Garage Doors and Specials are number 1 and 2 on the list, respectively. Our Contact page made the list too, of course. But Loveland, CO? There must be a bunch of folks in Loveland needing garage door service!
Here’s the full list:
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One last plug for Garage Door Safety Month – here is an infographic created by the folks over at Bayside Garage Doors in Tampa, FL, illustrating some of the dangers of garage doors and how to prevent accidents or injuries from them:
Although One Clear Choice guarantees the best quality, value, and price on the install, repair, and replacement on doors of all brands, we choose Clopay, the only garage door manufacturer with the Good Housekeeping Seal of Approval.
Help us reach 200 likes and you’ll be entered in a drawing to win a free garage door opener with installation! In order to qualify like our page and post a comment on our wall. When we reach 200 likes we’ll draw for the winner!
In this video, Lowe’s home improvement expert Mike Kraft gives tips on how to maintain your garage door. Find printable instructions for this video at http://www.Lowes.com/Videos.
There are three key steps to garage door maintenance:
1. Cleaning
2. Safety
3. Lubricating
Start outside, cleaning the outside of your door with a soft sponge or cloth. You should do this once a year or potentially more if you live in a soft air climate. Once it is washed, just rinse with a hose. If the garage door is made of wood, inspect the door to see if it needs to be repainted or stained.
It’s also good to do a safety check every few months or so. Keep in mind torsion springs can cause injuries. When doing safety checks, remove any cars or debris from the garage door area or tracks. Then do a visual inspection of all the cables, rollers, springs and hinges. Replace anything is frayed or worn and tighten bolts. For bolts that are near a safety tag or painted red, only have a trained technician adjust.
Also check the door balance, disconnecting the power first to the opener. Then disengage the door from the opener and raise the door to waist level. Release slowly. If the door raises or lowers, a trained technician will need to adjust the balance.
Use a non-silicone based lubricant to lubricate hinges, springs and bearings. Don’t oil the tracks, or else the door might become unbalanced.
“Thank you big John for repairing our garage door! I was very impressed with your service and your hospitality! I will definitely recommend you and your company to any of my friends in need of garage door service! Thank you again!!!”
- Martha C.
