by Rhonda | Aug 6, 2014 | Garage Door Info, Garage Door Openers, Tips for Homeowners
Few machines in your home work harder than your garage door opener. According to Popular Mechanics magazine, the typical U.S. garage door opens and closes about 1,500 times a year. Each operation involves pushing or pulling hundreds of pounds of garage door. Most...
by Rhonda | Jul 14, 2014 | Garage Door Openers, Tips for Homeowners
If you’re a curious soul or a DIYer, it’s good to know how your garage door opener works. It’ll help when shopping for a new one, fixing an old one, or explaining what’s wrong while speaking over the phone to a professional repair person. Three elements work together...
by Rhonda | Jul 3, 2014 | Garage Door Openers, Tips for Homeowners
Here are steps that will help you buy the garage door opener that works best for you. Measure the height of your garage door. Virtually every garage door opener can open and close a 7’-high door without modification. However, anything taller may well require an...
by Rhonda | Jun 30, 2014 | Tips for Homeowners
Realtors talk about it. Home buyers look for it. Home sellers do all they can to achieve it. In fact, recent surveys reveal just how important curb appeal is. According to Professional Builder Magazine’s 2014 Home Exteriors survey, 60.1% of homebuyers stated great...
by Rhonda | Jun 16, 2014 | Tips for Homeowners
Remember when the main entrance to a home was through the front door? Not any more. Today, more than 70% of homeowners enter and exit their home through the garage door. The average garage door raises and lowers an average of four times a day. June is National Garage...
by Rhonda | Jun 4, 2014 | Garage Door Info
Simple in concept, garage doors can get complicated pretty quickly. Since we work with them every day, it’s easy to forget that most home and business owners don’t understand the basic parts of a garage door. To make sure that you can adequately consider only garage...
by Rhonda | Apr 21, 2014 | Tips for Homeowners
Keeping your garage clean and orderly can sometimes seem almost impossible. Often a de facto dumping ground for most homes or businesses, they can easily hide items that should have been disgarded, recycled or given away years ago. Trust me when I say that the...
by Rhonda | Aug 29, 2013 | Tips for Homeowners
Did you realize that over 7 Billion gallons of water is used for landscape irrigation nationwide? According to the EPA as much as half of the water used is actually wasted by falling on sidewalks or evaporating into the air before it even reaches the ground....
by Rhonda | Jul 28, 2013 | Garage Door Security
At Nask we regularly offer help and guidance to home and business owners in the selection and installation of garage doors in our region. Understandably after the garage doors are installed, most people rarely give their operation a second thought. However as an entry...
by Rhonda | Jul 9, 2013 | Garage Door Info
Recently one our customers made a comment that she was surprised at the many different decisions that she had to make when selecting a garage door. Among the many different options that confronted her was the material used for construction. Surprisingly, there are...
