Month: May 2018

Infrareds: Safety Is Smart



 

 

We’ve all been there. You’re leaving for work and you hit the button to close your garage door. It starts to go down a few inches, then suddenly reverses. The lights flash on the opener like there’s a party you weren’t invited to. You try again—same result. What the heck?

 

 

Here’s the deal—safety is smart, flashing strobe lights and all. Your garage door is the largest moving object in your home and it can do some serious damage to you, your car, your kid, your trash can, or whatever else is underneath it when it closes. To avoid crushing deaths, infrareds became mandatory in 1992 under federal law.

 

 

Infrareds act like the bouncer at the club, watching the door and making sure it’s safe to close. They’re a pair of small boxes mounted a few inches above the floor, making constant eye contact with each other like a couple of co-dependents. If something comes between them or breaks the beam, they tell the opener that it isn’t safe to close the door. That might seem silly until you remember that your door can weigh more than two-hundred pounds. You don’t want that to come down on top of you, right?

 

 

Fortunately—or unfortunately, depending on your perspective—the infrareds are a little over-cautious. They can tell the opener that it isn’t safe to close the door for a multitude of reasons. If anything, and I mean anything, obstructs the infrared beam, the door will not close. That could be something as big as a car or as small as a leaf. If you have an antique door from the 1800s, all the rattling during opening and closing can throw the infrareds out of alignment too. If you bump the infrared accidentally with a rake or a trash can, they don’t automatically reset themselves and will remain out of alignment until you step in to straighten them out.

 

 

Once you’ve checked the perimeter and you can’t find anything blocking your infrareds, it might be time to call in the professionals. However, if you’ve just gotten home from work or you need to leave, you can override the safety feature by holding down the inside wall button [not the button on your remote]. This tells the opener that you are physically standing there and that it’s safe to close the door.

I hope I’ve told you something that can help you get to work on time or allowed you to head out for the weekend. Now, go forth with your new knowledge and new bodyguards. Remember, safety is smart and hurting yourself is not.

This post first appeared on https://www.abedoors.com

Service Is Smart

 Industrial equipment. Heavy machinery. 

When I hear those words, it’s a callback to a bygone era—a time when people worked in terrible conditions and safety measures were lax. I also think of contruction—oil rigs, bulldozers, combine harvesters, and steam rollers. I don’t think my day to day life involves heavy machinery or industrial equipment.

I leave for work or school or head out to run some errans just like every other day. I get in my car, push the button to open my garage door, back out, and push the button to close it. It’s at that moment, watching it rumble down and settle against the concrete, that I realize what I use every single day that I leave my home—a steel door weighing on average two-hundred pounts and driven by a 1/2 horsepower motor. 

The garage door is the largest moving object in the home and the average household opens and closes it four times every single day. If you’re anything like me, you didn’t really think about that until just now either. Now, if you oversaw the use of a bulldozer or combine harvester or worked in a place that used industrial equipment to build skyscrapers, you would want every precaution to be taken to ensure no one got hurt, right? However, when was the last time you thought about your garage door? 

Service is smart. 

The garage door is made up of a lot of parts. Heavy springs are used to counter balance the door, hinges hold all the sections together, the track supports the door, the rollers keep the door in the track. Any of those parts can wear out and break down, just like the brakes on a bulldozer. Your garage door should be serviced at least once each year to keep everything in working order and—most of all—to keep it safe. 

Here at A.B.E. Doors and Windows, we offer a discount on service in the form of a 20 Point Service Inspection all year round to keep your garage door in tip top shape. Give us a call and set something up.

This post first appeared on https://www.abedoors.com

Why is my Garage Door not closing?

Although garage doors have only one job to do, their single job is one of the most important, when it comes to garages. After all they’re the doorways of a garage. When they’re working properly, all goes well until they stop working due to any malfunction. If you’re bothering about why is my garage door not closing? There can be a few reasons that may impact the working condition of a garage door opener. Here are a few things that can impact the working of a garage door opener:

  • The most common reason behind your garage door not opening is, probably something could be blocking your garage door completely closing.
  • If the safety sensor of your garage door opener is not working properly, it can be the reason why your garage door is not closing. Make sure you get them checked by a professional.
  • If the sensors of your garage door are not in the perfect alignment, your garage door won’t be closing properly.
  • In case of broken springs, which your garage door heavily relies on for the operation, the garage door opener couldn’t close.
  • One more reason for your garage door not closing properly is the damaged cables.
  • Tracks comprise of one of the most important components of a garage door. Any damage of these tracks can simply make your garage door unable to close completely.

Above are only a few aspects that can make a garage door not to close properly. If your garage door is not closing, it’s better to contact a professional and repair it. Triple B Garage Doors is one such professional company with right amounts of expertise and experience.

This post first appeared on https://triplebgaragedoors.com/

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