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Licence and Insurance changes everything
Yesterday (3) local contractors were arrested on Staten Island for performing work without proper HIC Licensing.
As a home owner you must make sure that the companies you chose are licensed and Insured to do business in your state. Additionally you must ask for a Certificate of Insurance from any company that does work on your home, this is your right and obligation to ensure that you are doing business with a qualified Professional. The reason why a Professional company needs to charge a little more is because Insurance and Licensing is part of the cost of doing business and in most cases its minimal. As a consumer your decision making process should be only with Licensed and Insured Companies that have an actual place of Business and a good reputation. You have the most powerful resources today to get this information online or you can spend thousands or worse chasing down an Un-Licensed Fly-by-night contractor that charged you a little less and disappeared.
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What Does R-Value mean
The best selling garage doors will boast their R-Value. The R-value is a measure of thermal resistance [1] used in the building and construction industry. Under uniform conditions it is the ratio of the temperature difference across an insulator and the heat flux (heat transfer per unit area,  ) through it or  .The R-value being discussed is the unit thermal resistance. This is used for a unit value of any particular material. It is expressed as the thickness of the material divided by the thermal conductivity. For the thermal resistance of an entire section of material, instead of the unit resistance, divide the unit thermal resistance by the area of the material. For example, if you have the unit thermal resistance of a wall, divide by the cross-sectional area of the depth of the wall to compute the thermal resistance. The unit thermal conductance of a material is denoted as C and is the reciprocal of the unit thermal resistance. This can also be called the unit surface conductance and denoted by h.[2] The bigger the number, the better the building insulation's effectiveness. AREN'T YOU GLAD YOU ASKED!!!!
What does this mean to the average home owner looking for a quality garage door. Here's the break down. There are several factors that would make R-Value more or less significant. How often you use the garage door, what you use the garage space for, and how well the actual garage is insulated. As a professional Garage Door Dealer its our job to survey and assess the over-all importance that R-Value has. Don't stress, it will be the one of the easier decisions in the whole process
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Insulated Garage Doors in New York Save Energy |
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Since 1945, Christie Overhead Door has been offering quality garage doors, garage door openers and services to the New York Metropolitan and surrounding areas. We offer a full line of quality doors including insulated garage doors. If you want the insulated garage doors that residents and business owners in our area have come to trust, you want Christie Overhead Door. Insulated doors can be very beneficial in keeping down your residential energy costs. Typically speaking, many homes lose energy by leaks in and around their garage doors and other openings. When you install insulated doors, you can substantially cut down on the amount of indoor air that you lose.
This can help you to see a tremendous savings in your energy bills over time. You can also help to protect your belongings by ensuring that humidity and cold never penetrate your garage. You can safely store even the most important possessions in a garage with insulated doors without worrying about weather and the elements ruining those possessions. We offer insulated doors in many designs and styles including steel and wood, to ensure that you get the best doors for your home. When you want to add the beauty of a garage door along with the security of blocking out harmful weather and elements, insulated doors are the perfect choice.
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How To Install a Garage Door? |
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When planning on installing your own garage door, it’s vital to determine what kind of garage door you’re trying to install. Not all garage doors are created equal – if your door has a torsion-spring system, STOP and call in a professional. An Extension-spring system garage door is held in place by extreme tension, STOP and call in a professional
What I am trying to say here is although the BIG-BOX stores would like you to believe that this is a DIY project, its not. As a Professional Garage Door Dealer and 25 years under my belt I too have fallen victim to the thought that “ I can do it myself” when it comes to work around the house. Lets face it most DIY’ers have some sort of trade background and are around a building site long enough to see what goes on, myself included. Watching a trained professional do his or her job well makes it look easy. However an Electrician is not a Plumber is not a Roofer is not a Plaster is not a Car Mechanic. As an I.D.E.A. Certified Garage Door Installer and Carpenter by trade I attempt most house projects myself .
There is a reason that Industry requires Certification and Licensing to the trades, fix a faucet…yes, Change a Boiler…NO. Change an outlet…yes, replace an Electrical Panel…NO. Know your limits, a garage door is the largest moving object in your home and can cause severe injury or death when handled improperly. While installing a garage door seems like a doable project and many people find great DIY success with it, don’t put yourself and your family at unnecessary risk. There a hundreds of reputable professional Garage Door dealers to choose from www.dooreducation.com . There are also hundreds of Emergency rooms you can visit, its your choice. |
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Using your I-Phone to open the garage door. |
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UPDATED> 09/20/12
<Original> As an avid I-phone user and Tech-Junkie the short answer is yes you can use your I-phone to open a garage door. The truth is you can probably turn on and shut down and open and close more devices than you think. The auto industry has enabled technology to start your car with Smart Phones and Smart House technology has enabled complete house management from a smart phone, but what’s practical and what’s not.
Unless you have 100-150 thousand dollars to devote to Smart house technology so you can dim the lights from Bali this may be impractical. Unless you want to pay the monthly charges for On-Star then starting your car from work may be impractical. If opening your garage door from where ever using your homes Wi-Fi and some store bought add on’s and some in house wiring and some creative programming sounds practical then down load the X10 Commander App to your phone $9.99 go online and get a USB to RF X10 interface and an X10 PUM01 low Voltage Controller device, run some low voltage wiring from the garage door button to the controller. Program the Software, set it up to be ALWAYS running and “PRESTO” open and close your garage door all day long. I have a nice mini remote on my key-chain ( under 30.00 ) and it works when I am in front of the garage door where I should be when opening it and that leaves me plenty of time to use my I-Phone for what it was intended for …to play ANGRY BIRDS .
Updated> OK so the I-phone does almost anything now, I love 6.0! No, I don't need the I-Phone-5 because the 4S works just fine. OK so unless you are ready to change your Automatic opener and drop anywhere from $400.00 - $700.00 to get your I-Phone to close your garage door, then simply do this
" CLOSE YOUR GARAGE DOOR WHEN YOU LEAVE THE HOUSE!!!" if your life is that kaotic that you could pull away with the LARGEST door to your house open, then you need something your I-Phone cant't give you. If you are that much a Tech-Junkie then implement smart house technoligy into your entire home and open and close everything with your I-Phone
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