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Back to School – Inspect Your Garage Door Weatherstripping Ahead of Fall

Wednesday, August 11th, 2010 at 3:38 pm by Dan Musick
A view of a university that will have school activities resuming pertaining to inspecting your garage door weatherstripping before school begins.

With hot weather currently holding an iron grip in much of North America this summer, not many people may be thinking of weatherstripping on their garage doors or house. But as school activities start, you might notice garage door weatherstripping that shows up lame.…

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Garage Door Spring Safety–Use the Spring King Winding Kit To Enable a Safe Garage Door Spring Installation

Saturday, July 24th, 2010 at 10:42 am by Dan Musick

We regret to inform you that this piece of hardware is no longer available. However, for alternative winding systems, see our blogs about the S3 Arrow Tru-Line Winder and the DDM Torsion Spring Safe-T-Winder.

If you already have a Spring King winding system, you can visit our blog post about winding Spring King and Simple Set winding systems.…

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Weatherstripping For Clopay Garage Doors

Thursday, July 8th, 2010 at 2:15 pm by Dan Musick
A Clopay garage door bottom seal.
Clopay seal

Update: weatherstripping items for Clopay doors can now be found on our Clopay Garage Door Parts page.


DDM Garage Doors has the following weatherstripping items for your Clopay garage door. Get your door to seal right.…

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Special: Garage Door Parts Page Opening At DDM

Monday, July 5th, 2010 at 10:01 am by Dan Musick
A person's hand attempting to ring a old fashion door bell pertaining to the launch of DDM's garage door parts page.

Garage door parts ordering at DDM is about to get even better.

We get extra items, which will go on sale in a discount page featuring overstocks, good used parts, etc. Therefore, consistent with our recent steps to help the customer with costs, we’re introducing a page where customers can get good deals and save money on garage door parts.…

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Save Money When Ordering Garage Door Parts Part 1

Wednesday, June 23rd, 2010 at 3:08 pm by Dan Musick
A person holding money showing how much can possibly be saved by purchasing garage door springs from DDM Garage Doors.

From time to time, DDM Garage Doors hits upon ways to assist our customers with cost savings when they order garage door springs or other parts. One such experience came recently when one of our customers ordered springs. We had him consider converting from longer 1 3/4″ springs to shorter 2″ springs while maintaining mechanical integrity. …

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Troubleshooting Your Garage Door or Opener?

Wednesday, March 17th, 2010 at 8:38 pm by Dan Musick
Garage door troubleshooting

According to Wikipedia, troubleshooting is “a form of problem solving, often applied to repair failed products or processes on a machine or a system. It is a logical, systematic search for the source of a problem in order to solve it, and make the product or process operational again.”…

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DDM Blog is Back

Thursday, February 25th, 2010 at 3:44 pm by Dan Musick

Greetings! DDM Garage Doors owner Dan Musick has been busy for some time, and this accounts for the absence of posts you may have noticed. But I’m ready to get writing to keep you abreast of Dan’s thoughts, ideas, tips, and happenings, and so put the DDM blog on a consistent stream again.…

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Our Webmaster Graduates!

Sunday, May 27th, 2007 at 2:33 pm by Dan Musick

Congratulations, Erich Musick!

Erich Musick, our webmaster, is graduating. He is dressed in his graduation cap and gown, standing in front of the Milwaukee School of Engineering.

Your Mother and I are really proud of you as we celebrate your graduation with high honors and second in your class from Milwaukee School of Engineering with a Bachelor of Science degree in Software Engineering.

Therefore, we wish you the fullest of God’s blessing as you begin your career at Metavante.…

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URL – Why are you a .org?

Thursday, February 22nd, 2007 at 10:08 pm by Dan Musick

On a recent guestbook entry, Dan Heckle commented regarding our URL extension. Thank you, Dan, for your comment. Here is an answer for you and others who have wondered about it as well.

In April of 1997, when I was evaluating domain names, I considered garagedoor.com,…

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Huge inventory of torsion springs for same or next day shipping! Here you will find all you need in the most common sizes of 1 3/4," 2," 2 1/4," and 2 5/8" inside diameter springs. Larger 3 3/4" and 6" inside diameter commercial and industrial springs may require a day or two to ship. You'll also find TorqueMaster Springs, Extension Springs, Self-Storage door springs, steel rolling door springs and springs for one piece single panel doors.

Shelves packed with every part you need to fix your doors.

Please note. Shipping times and costs have changed. Normal transit times are currently not guaranteed, even on next day and second day shipments. Shipping prices on items over eight feet have more than tripled.