New Year Schedule

Grove City Garage Door Inc. will be closed on:

Thursday, January 1st
Friday, January 2nd- but answering the phone to book appointments for the week of 01/05-01/09


We also answer the phones on Saturdays for over the phone diagnosis and scheduling of appointments for the upcoming weeks. So give us a call and have a safe and Happy New Year!

Elfie helps with a garage door

Note: No Elves were hurt during this event.

Elfie is trapped under a garage door because the down force on the garage door was set too high and the safety sensors were useless! The down force on any garage door is controlled by the garage door opener. If the force is set too high the safety sensors will not be able to tell the garage door to go back up when something is in front of the sensors. In order to make sure your family is safe from this happening, call a professional to check out your garage door and opener to ensure the down force is not set too high.

Today is Elfie's last day as the safety elf, he will be returning to the north pole until next year! Thank you Elfie for helping Grove City Garage Door Inc teach others about garage door safety!

This Week Holiday Schedule

Grove City Garage Door Inc. holiday schedule:

Thursday, December 25, Closed to spend time with family

Friday, December 26, open for business.

We are still undecided on the New Years' schedule; however, we are closed on Thursday, January 1.

Elfie and the Spring

Elfie what are your doing?!!! That's a torsion spring and it is serious business! You cannot adjust a torsion spring with a screw driver Elfie, you could get hurt! Torsion springs take special tools for adjustments, don't be like Elfie; call the professionals to adjust or change the torsion spring!

The standard torsion spring on a garage is under tension, the torsion spring assists the garage door opener in opening and closing the garage door. Garage door springs are wound according to the height of the garage door. So if you have a seven foot tall garage door the spring is wound seven times. The garage door spring is made of metal and can break at any time for any reason.

Elfie Helps With Nylon Rollers

Elfie is helping install some nylon rollers on a garage door. Nylon rollers roll smoothly, and make the garage door operate quietly. Grove City Garage Door Inc. uses nylon rollers on all of our garage door installs and repairs. Rollers on a garage door do not need to be replaced all of the time, only when they are not operating correctly any longer. The roller can get  tears in the nylon which can cause the roller to stop rolling smoothly. If your rollers don't run smoothly the door can get our of alignment. We can check your rollers at any time we are at your home for a service call to ensure your garage door is operating at the optimal level. Our service calls are $79.00, we check out the garage door, oil and adjust the door, and ensure your garage door is operating at an optimal level!

Recent Doors Installed

Pictured above is a Clopay long panel garage door with long square grilles. This is a very popular pick among customers.

Pictured above is another Clopay long panel garage door with window inserts.

If you didn't know, Grove City Garage Door Inc. is a factory authorized dealer of Clopay Garage Doors. We can give our customers low prices on garage doors because we get our doors straight from the factory! Clopay is also an Ohio company, which means we are buying all of our doors local! Clopay's manufacturing facility is located in Troy, Ohio and they have distribution centers all over the United States!

Elfie the Safety Elf

Elfie the Safety elf is riding along with Mark until Christmas. Elfie will be showing us some safety on garage doors, how Grove City Garage Door Inc. operates, and just some things to avoid bodily injury on your garage door. Follow Elfie on Facebook this week and next week until Christmas. Once Christmas gets here Elfie will have to return to the North Pole until next Christmas season!

Elfie is showing how Grove City Garage Door Inc. recycles old garage doors, openers, and springs. Don't be like Elfie, stay out of the recycling trailer, it's not safe in there! There are plenty of places to get cut on old metal! Grove City Garage Door Inc. recycles all of these items so they do not end up in the land fill!

Saving and Recycling

Grove City Garage Door Inc. saves and recycles old garage doors. When we remove a garage door from a home or commercial building we do not throw the garage door away to be hauled off to the dump. We recycle all of the old damaged garage doors. If a garage door has some undamaged panels then we will save the garage door. There are some old garage doors that are no longer being made on some of our customers' homes that we still have panels for just in case they need a damaged panel replaced.

Elfie the safety elf

We have decided to adopt a new holiday tradition this year, we are going to have Elfie the safety elf teach our customer about garage door safety. We want eveyone to know what they are dealing with on a garage door. There are many pinch points on a garage door and safety features to keep you and your family safe. Watch for Elfie on this blog and on our Facebook page!

Have fun this holiday season and learn more about your garage door!

Black Garage Door

Clopay offers a Black garage door. This garage door is part of the Classic collection and only comes in an insulated version.  PDF of the Black Garage Door

Pictured above is a commercial job we recently installed a black garage door with color matching weatherstrip. This is a short panel garage door.

Marketing Online

Recently Mark was asked a question about marketing and whether or not we use Angie's List. To answer this question, we have a free listing on Angie's List. We are not an Angie's List member because we don't want to shell out lots of money on advertising on multiple websites. We shell out our advertising money on our own website. Angie's List does charge businesses to read their reviews, and use their site, so we do not use it. We do not pay a marketing person to update the website, I do all of the updating. Grove City Garage Door Inc. is a small business and if you paid to be on every single website out there, you would lose money rather than make money.

Every website out there is trying to make money in some way, shape, or form just the same as any search engine. Search engines make money through advertising money.

How a business pays through advertising money:
*purchase of a domain name costs a subscription fee every year to two years depending upon the package you get.
*Web hosting packages cost money to design a website, the web host pays the search engine.
*Getting your website higher in rankings can require some pay to click advertising with Google, Yahoo, and Bing
*We purchase business cards
*We purchase stickers to put on garage doors

Free Advertising:
*Word of Mouth! Word of Mouth comes from satisfied customers!
*Customers that link to our website, and leave reviews for us help with advertising.


The best advertising we receive is the compliment of our customers! When our customers recommend us to another that is the ultimate advertising! Word of Mouth works the best, when a customer is satisfied they are most likely to tell 3-4 of their friends. When a customer is not satisfied they are most likely to tell 10 or more people of their dissatisfaction. Grove City Garage Door Inc. tries it's best to satisfy every customer to get the 3-4 word of mouth referrals every single time! We love getting reviews from our customers and love knowing we did a great job! Thanks to all of our customers, we have been prosperous and have the ability to survive in these turbulent times!

So if you are a customer, leave a review, link to your favorite, and tell others about your favorite business. In the end the customers are the driving force of advertising!

Outer Weatherstrip

The garage door has a weatherstrip on the outside of the garage door. This weatherstrip helps to keep out the elements from coming around the garage door. Pictured above is a white garage door with brown weatherstrip. This weatherstrip matches the trim on the rest of the house. We can also math the weatherstrip to the color of the garage door.

Black Iron Hardware

Black Iron Hardware on a garage door adds a certain umpf to your garage door! The handles of the hardware are actually functional and can be used to lift the garage door from the outside if necessary. With most every garage door having an opener on the inside, the hardware is now used to dress up a garage door. This is a low cost option to add to your garage door. If you want just the functional handles to be added to your door, we can do that to. Just give us a call to find out how much our black iron hardware is installed for.

The above pictured garage door is a Clopay Gallery series garage door, long panel, with walnut ultra-grain, and Arch 1 & 2 windows.

Helpful information about garage door springs

The garage door torsion spring is located above the garage door. Pictured above is a torsion spring setup. The garage door springs are two springs above the garage door or one spring depending upon the size of the garage door. There are also extension springs that have a different setup. Extension springs are ran on the side of the track. The torsion spring setup is the most common setup of garage door springs. Pictured above is a pair of garage door springs that are in good working order. If you look closely at the picture you will find the emergency pull string for the garage door opener and the attachment from the opener shaft to the garage door. If your spring is broke we recommend pulling the emergency garage door opener string and opening the garage door by lifting the door. The garage door opener can also become damaged if the opener is used on a broken spring. The garage door spring assists the garage door opener in lifting the garage door. The garage door spring has a lot of tension on it and it is not recommended to try to fix this yourself.

Weatherstrip

Every garage door has a bottom weatherstrip which helps to prevent the outside weather from coming inside. If you see light at the bottom of your garage door there is a good chance you need to have the weatherstrip changed or your garage door adjusted. Keep water from collecting at the bottom of your garage door also, the water can freeze in cold temperatures, and your garage door will not open easily if it is frozen to the ground. Eventually the freezing of water under a garage door can wear out an opener too. When you open the garage door just take a broom to the entrance and clear out the water, snow, or debris to keep your garage door operating correctly!

If you want us to take a look at your weatherstrip or adjust your garage door just give us a quick call! The service call is $79.00, and while we are there we will assess your garage door to make sure it is operating correctly! Grove City Garage Door Inc.: 614-877-0350

Gift Certificates!

Did you know that Grove City Garage Door Inc. offers gift certificates?

How to obtain a Grove City Garage Door Gift Certificate:

-Call Grove City Garage Door Inc. 614-877-0350
-Set up the amount of the gift certificate
-Pay for the gift certificate
-Provide your information of where to send the gift certificate to
-We will fill out the gift certificate for the amount paid and send it to you
-Once the gift certificate is given to the recipient, the recipient can call and schedule the services.

All of our services are available:
-Standard check out of door: $79.00
-Christmas special on garage door openers, opener, 2 remotes & keyless entry installed for $325.00
-Or select your nominal amount of purchase, we have many doors on hand as well as on clearance

 Check out our page, see the sample of the gift certificate:

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