Garage Door Today

Check out Jay with his electric car, this thing is awesome.. This garage is every mans dream. Actually a garage 25% of this size is every mans dream…

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Garage door parts have changed over the years they have become alot safer but it took a lot of accidents before new codes were made. Originally garage doors didn’t have safety sensors. If the tension was not set right the garage door could crush whatever was in Its way.

Sensors were not the only scary thing on a garage door, one piece garage doors had extension springs. When the springs broke they would become a deadly projectile that could kill someone If they got hit by it.  They have since engineered garage door extension springs with a safety strap inside to prevent this from occouring.

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So…. after seeing quite a few garage floor epoxy jobs I can tell  a good one from a bad one right away….There are a few factors that you want to look at in the epoxy world….

1. Is my floor epoxy gonna flake off 3 days after I install it….?
2. should I pay a professional to epoxy my garage floor…?
3. I can get that stuff at Home depot for likme 50 bucks right?
4. Do I need this stuff?

Ok heres the long and short of it, If you are going to epoxy your garage floor, never, ever use one of those cheap lowes or homedepot do it your self products…. I told that to a customer one day… And he replied, “No this stuff is great it was like 50 Bucks”… The funny part is when I came back to do some work on his house like 1 month later all of the floor epoxy was peeling in his garage….             

So what then can you do, ok  real garage floor epoxy is great for a finished modern look if and only if you get a great epoxy product. If you get a professional to aplly the epoxy it should cost about 1200 -1400 bucks for a solid multi coated floor, a real nice job that comes with warranty and will look great for years… Expensive you say?, one contractor told me that the product with all of the flakes, was about $700. to do a two car garage, so a reputable contractor makes about 100% mark up on the epoxy product…. But let me tell you,  Your garage will look stellar when it is done.

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When choosing make sure you storage racks are strong made out of high grade steel and make sure to anchor them into the studs… to do this use a stud sensor or the old fasioned way ( a hammer and nail). your studs should be 16 center… meaning every 16 inches is a stud center and therefore an anchor point for your storage system… Make sure to use wood lags at leaast 2 inches long…. It is also a good idea to pre drill, so that you are sure you have the center of the wood and to prevent splitting.  Here is a picture of some decent ones… Just to let you know we at garage door today are in no way affiliated with onrax and should probably charge them for this… But who knows mabey we will get a free storage system out of it…. any way just make sure the garage storage racks that you choose are solid

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Global Warming Debunked?

limbicsystem writes, “I’m a scientist. I like Al Gore. I donate to the Sierra club, I bicycle everywhere and I eat granola. And I just read a very convincing article in the UK Telegraph that makes me think that the ’scientific consensus’ on global warming is more than a little shaky. Now IANACS (I am not a climate scientist). And the Telegraph is notoriously reactionary. Can anyone out there go through this piece and tell me why it might be wrong? Because it seems to be solid, well researched, and somewhat damning of a host of authorities (the UN, the editors of Nature, the Canadian Government) who seem to have picked a side in the global warming debate without looking at the evidence.” The author of the Telegraph piece is Christopher Monckton, a retired journalist and former policy advisor to Margaret Thatcher.

sorry had to re post this….lol

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some of the subjects that we will talk about here all have do do with the garage interior….

• garage floor epoxy ( we will have a whole discussion on what to use and what not to use)
• garage cabinets ( steel wood, or composite) any one wish to share on this topic
• garage doors this is my specialty
• garage storage
• cool garage gadgets… eg Bike hangers lasers and other weird stuff….
• recreational items for the garage….
• and much much more… (suggestions? ) just comment this post….

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When Building your custom garage you want to take in to consideration many factors space, cost, time to complete and usability…All of these topics will be covered as well as some pointers will be delivered here…

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There’s nothing better than settling into your new garage for a game of darts, pool, a new construction project or just kicking back to watch some TV… yes I said it Television not only do many Americans have a radio in their garage but there are also many people that make a sofa for watching TV in their newly remodeled garage.  There are many cool things that you can do to pimp out your garage space…

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