Best Time to Change Weatherstripping?

Recently we have had some calls regarding the weatherstripping, and when is the best time to change weatherstripping? It is actually best to change the weatherstripping when temperatures are at 50 degrees or above. The reason for this is the bottom weatherstripping is not as flexible at colder temperatures, could be frozen to the door, and breaks apart easily making it harder to get out of the track. The outside weatherstripping should also be changed when the temperatures are above 50 degrees. The outer weatherstripping becomes stiff and hard to work with, it can also crack due to the cold temperatures. So we recommend waiting until spring time to get your weatherstripping replaced.

Fun Facts About Your Garage Door

What are some things we know and do not know about our garage doors?

1. The garage door is the largest door on your home!

2. Garage doors can be made of wood, steel, aluminum, copper, glass, vinyl, and fiber-glass!

3. Steel garage doors can be made in many different colors!

4. The garage door opener is not part of the garage door!

5. The garage door springs bear the weight of the garage door, not the opener!

6. The garage door runs up and down on the track!

7. The garage door has hinges, rollers, struts, brackets, cables, and springs!

8. The garage door can have glass in one row of the door or be the whole door!

9. The garage door has weatherstripping on the bottom and the outside of the door!

10. It is best to maintain your garage door once a year at least!

11. There are hundreds of garage door companies out there, so try to pick the one that treats you right

Pictured here is a garage door with an extension spring set-up, that is the only difference. Use this as a guide to learn the moving parts of the garage door and what they are.

Galvanized or Oil Tempered Springs

Pictured above is a galvanized steel torsion spring, we used to install the galvanized torsion springs. We found that they weren't lasting as long as the oil tempered springs, so we only install the oil tempered torsion springs now.

To keep you springs running smoothly we recommend spraying them with some WD-40 at least once a year. The springs bears the weight of the garage door, the opener pushes and pulls the garage door up and down. Garage door springs have a tendency to break during extreme weather changes. And when you have two springs, they will usually break one at a time, but we recommend changing both at the same time because if you only change one the other is going to break soon after.

Rollup Garage Door

This customer is located in an area that is seeing a lot of crime. The crime is the windows are being broken out in the building by a disgruntled customer on a daily basis. The owner decided to protect all of the glass in the building with roll up garage doors. These doors were a custom commercial job, special order doors, and some stucco work done by Creative Stucco!

Commercial Garage Door Springs

Pictured here is a commercial garage door spring. This spring is broke in the center and will need to be replaced. Commercial springs are made from a heavier duty steel so they have the ability to assist in lifting a large commercial garage door like the one pictured below:

The commercial garage door torsion spring is generally a two spring setup on large commercial garage doors. The size of the spring can vary as well as the cycles of use. The commercial garage door spring can have a cycle life of up 25,000 cycles.

Torsion garage door springs are wound with tension and special tools. The springs are wound 1 full revolution per foot height of the garage door. For example, if the garage door is 7 foot tall, the garage door needs to be wound seven full revolutions and the garage door is wound in quarters. We do not recommend changing any garage door springs yourself. Get a professional to do it, the springs can cause bodily harm if you do not have the right tools for the job!

Commercial Garage Doors

Grove City Garage Door Inc. does a wide variety of commercial garage door jobs. The pictured above garage door is a Clopay door in commercial tan. This garage door is installed on a car wash on Rome Hilliard Road in West Columbus. The owner is converting this car wash into a car repair shop. Stop by and check it out sometime!


Learn more about some of our Commercial Jobs: Commercial Jobs

We MUST be popular!

As I check around the internet, I think to myself (Grove City Garage Door) must be popular! When I look up grove city garage door on Google, Bing, and Yahoo; I find many of our competitors using our trademarked name. This is causing our customers to be confused on who the heck to call!

I have done a couple of searches on Bing and Yahoo to show everyone just how popular our competitors think we are and how much of a battle it is to use our own freaking name on searches! It's a tough market to compete with your own name on the internet searches. But be careful on who you are really calling. Some of our competitors are SHADY characters!

Examples of competitors on Yahoo

Examples on Bing

One of our competitors were nice enough to even verify an ad listing on Yahoo for us! We cannot fix the ad and have contacted Yahoo several time with promises that it would be fixed in 6-8 weeks! It has still not been fixed. See the example below:

Yahoo listed a wrong number

So just as a warning from someone going through this on a daily basis, research companies before just calling them. We have had some customers scammed from this problem in the past and recently. We only want to make sure our customers are getting the best service possible from the correct Grove City Garage Door Inc.!

Rollup Garage Doors

Pictured above is a Roll-Up garage door. The customer has glass on the front of this store that is constantly getting broken. The cost of glass for insulated double paned glass is expensive, so the customer opted to protect the glass by installing garage doors over all of the glass. This roll-up garage door also comes with a hood to protect the rolling part at the top that is yet to be installed.

Do you have a special job that you want to have done? We can make a suggestion on how to get your job done. Any size garage door, specialty, commercial, residential, we have a solution!

Location of Grove City Garage Door Inc.

Grove City Garage Door Inc. warehouse is located in Orient, Ohio. We receive our deliveries of springs, and garage doors in the pictured buildings above. We have over 11000 square feet of storage space to accommodate our garage doors. We can store all of our vehicles in one location as well.

Grove City Garage Door Inc on the map

Grove City Garage Door Inc. originally just started out with one building in 1998, we eventually built the other two buildings over time. We are a small business with just a few employees: Mark Rothwell (President), Pat Rothwell, and Mike Writsell. We can be seen all over Columbus in our various vehicles that are clearly marked as seen above and our shirts below.

Grove City Garage Door Inc. offers knowledgeable services because of our long amount of time in the garage door business. Find out more about us: About Grove City Garage Door Inc.

Intranet Searches and Scams

As any person that searches on the intranet will find, distinguishing one organization from another can be almost impossible. I search different things on the intranet to purchase just like any other consumer, and just like any other consumer I get frustrated with search results. I find that there are many people out there that practice scamming unknowing consumers. What am I getting at by discussing these imposters? Well for one thing, it seems to be big business to scam garage door consumers. I try to stay up on what our competitors are doing and find some disturbing things in search results.

For example, I will search Grove City Garage Door to see where our site is at in search results, who is adding a new site, and who is using our trademark. I find that there are other companies that are using our name in their title tag.

What is a title tag? The title tag is the first thing you see when you search something. This example is of Angie's list in a search result. The blue highlight with the underline is a title tag. The next line is the website address, and the description after that is the meta description.

Grove City Garage Door Repair Companies - Angie's List

www.angieslist.com › Local Reviews › OH › Grove City

Angie's List

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Read Ratings and Reviews on Grove City, OH Garage Door Repair Companies on Angie's List so you can pick the right Garage Door Installation the first time.

Now when I find the above example in a search result, I think that this page should have something to do with Grove City Garage Door. However, when you click on the link you cannot find anything to do with Grove City Garage Door and cannot find it with a warrant! What does this mean? Angie's list is using a trademark to get search results for their website. Is this legal? Well no it's not. What can we do about it? Dump a lot of money into some lawyer's lap to get them to take the title down. Why use a lawyer? Well we have tried the standard contact the corporation, send an email politely asking them to remove the name from the tag, and sending out cease and desist letters. What happened? Angie's list responded that they aren't using our name to gain search results for their own lists. Can you still find this, of course you can. I just copied this link today. 01/16/2015

We are not in business to pay lawyers! It is an absolute shame that an organization does this to another organization. I feel that if you are using our trademark, then your link should go directly to something that represents that organization.

Now let's look at another example on the internet today:

Grove City Garage Door Repair – call (614) 305-7755

www.grovecitygaragedoor.org/

Grove City Garage Door is the one place to find all of your garage door solutions. We employ highly skilled technicians whose work is backed by our 100 percent ...

The above example is a perfect example of a person trying to confuse a consumer! When you find this in a search result, would you think that this is Grove City Garage Door? Of course you would because it says so. What happens next? Well you click on it and see advertising stating that it is indeed Grove City Garage Door, however, it's not the real Grove City Garage Door. Have we contacted this person that owns this one? Of course we have! What was their response? Well they basically said catch me if you can, which in turn means spend a ton of money trying to get me into court! What happened after we made contact? Well 10 more new websites came up on the internet saying they are Grove City Garage Door! What can we do about this? We are working with a lawyer to get this matter taken care of, however, it takes time and money. What does this do to our organization? Well is decreases the chances of a new customer finding us, hurts our reputation, and confuses people. What happens when a customer gets confused? They don't call you anymore!

So as you can tell, this kind of advertising by your competitors is damaging. We strive to be the best garage door service in town. And we strive to keep our customers coming back again and again.

How do we distinguish from the rest you ask? Well, we are a small business, the president of the company speaks to every customer that calls, and we give our customers the best service possible!

Garage Door Parts

In the above picture is a list of all of the garage door parts that can be replaced. Pictured in this setup is an extension springs along the upper part of the track, this configuration is common on one car garage doors, we see a lot of this configuration in apartment complexes.

Pictured in the above picture is the garage door opener setup. We do many garage door opener changes on a weekly basis, we always recommend the LiftMaster or Chamberlain brands for their reliability.

Wayne Dalton Spring Setup

Pictured above is a Wayne Dalton spring, this spring is broke. The Wayne Dalton spring setup is encased in a steel tube above the garage door. This spring setup is hard to determine if it is broken because you cannot simply look at the spring above the door.

Pictured above is a torsion spring setup on a two car garage door. The torsion spring setup is easier to tell if it is broken just by looking at the springs. Grove City Garage Door Inc. installs and repairs the torsion spring setup. We will convert your Wayne Dalton spring setup to a torsion spring setup. The torsion spring setup is more reliable and lasts longer. Torsion springs are made from a heavier gauge of steel than the Wayne Dalton spring setup, so you will get more cycles out of the torsion spring.

Most Popular Garage Door Opener

Grove City Garage Door Inc.'s most popular garage door opener is the LiftMaster or Chamberlain 7ft belt drive opener. This opener is so popular because it is quiet to operate, has very few problems, and does not require additional service calls to fix it. The garage door openers come with one keypad, and two remotes. We can install an outdoor key-less entry on them if you like, just ask about the key-less entry! Call for a quote on our most popular garage door opener! 614-877-0350

Find out more about the openers here:Residential Garage Door Openers

Something Different for Valentine's Day!

Are you looking for something other than the usual dinner out, flowers, or candy? Then look no further! Grove City Garage Door is running a special Valentine's Day sale! From January 13, 2015 to Valentine's Day, February 14, 2015, Grove City Garage Door Inc. is selling a Clopay 4050 garage door of any color with no windows for $850.00 installed! How can you get this fantastic deal as a gift certificate?

How to purchase gift certificate:
-Call Grove City Garage Door 614-877-0350
-Purchase the gift certificate and pay
-We will mail the gift certificate to the address provided
-Once you give the certificate to your loved one, have them call to set up an appointment

It's that easy! And your garage door gift will be remembered for years to come!

Old Garage Door Openers>Replace or Not?

We get asked all of the time by our customers if you have to replace a garage door opener if it is old? The answer is yes, if you garage door opener was made before 1992, you have to replace the opener. Then the next question is always, why? For one, old garage door openers do not have safety sensors. The above pictured garage door opener was made in 1962, and it does not have safety sensors to stop the garage door. The safety sensors are for your protection! The safety sensors will stop the garage door when it is in motion is something breaks the light curtain and the garage door will go backup instead of crushing anything underneath the garage door.

In 1992 the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission issued a rule that started January 1, 1993, all automatic garage door openers made after this date has to have safety sensors. This rule went into effect because children were being killed by a garage door that would not stop once it was activated to close. Read the rule for yourself:Rule on Garage Door Openers

The above pictured garage door opener has the safety sensors facing each other! This is unsafe and not recommended, if your garage door opener was installed this way please have it corrected!

Broken Garage Door Spring

Garage Door Springs breaking is very popular this time of year. The spring pictured above is a prime example of what it looks like when a spring breaks. The spring is under a lot of tension with the constant up and down of the garage door, the temperature going up and down can also cause problems. Extreme heat and extreme cold can cause a garage door spring to break!

To replace one spring the cost is $140.00, to replace both we generally charge $220.00. We recommend having both springs replaced at the same time if one breaks, the other is going to break soon after!

Crime Everywhere

There is crime everywhere: Grove City News

Grove City Garage Door Inc. cannot stress enough about NOT leaving your garage door open even if you are at home. Thieves will enter your garage and steal anything they can including your garage door openers in your cars! The garage door opener can then lead to the thieves returning at a later time when you are not home to enter through your garage! Always CLOSE your garage door even when you are home!

You can further protect yourself by getting a key chain remote for your garage door that will go inside with you and your keys.The key chain remote can be tuned to up to three garage door openers. Buy a Key Chain Remote