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Flexible Brush Seal – New at DDM!

Friday, August 25th, 2017 at 11:08 am by Sales Team
An image of a flexible brush seal.

DDM now stocks Flexible Brush Seal! Made with flexible plastic, designed as an alternative to the original brush seal with a rigid steel support edge. In addition, several features make it an excellent option for your commercial doors and dock levelers.…

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Storm Shield® Garage Door Threshold Seal

Friday, August 18th, 2017 at 11:20 am by Sales Team

DDM Garage Doors now offers Storm Shield® threshold seals for sectional garage doors. Other garage door weather seals mount to the jambs, header, and bottom of the door. However, this threshold seal glues to the floor directly below the bottom of the door to improve the seal under the door.…

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New Page & Software for EZ-Set Springs

Friday, August 4th, 2017 at 5:40 pm by Dan Musick

In order to help our customers find the correct springs for their garage doors, we just posted our revised page with new software to make it easier to purchase Clopay, Ideal, and Holmes EZ-SET Springs.

An image of an EZ-SET torsion spring.

In the past, we encouraged do-it-yourselfers to measure the springs.…

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Garage Door Sales

Thursday, June 22nd, 2017 at 4:17 pm by Dan Musick

DDM Garage Doors no longer sells garage doors outside of the Chicagoland area. In the past, we built wood crates for shipping garage doors over the road. We recently stopped doing this because the $500-$1,000 freight costs were often as much as the price of the door itself.…

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Push Down Bumper Springs and Leaf Bumpers

Friday, June 2nd, 2017 at 11:48 am by Sales Team

Push Down Bumper Springs start the door on the down cycle by pushing on the top of the door.

Jackshaft openers such as the Liftmaster 8500 or the 8500W turn the torsion shaft to operate the door. Under certain circumstances, it is advisable to use pusher springs to help the door close if the door cables come off the drums as the door begins to close.…

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Clopay Pinch Proof – The Downside to Unique Hardware

Friday, May 26th, 2017 at 1:00 pm by Sales Team

We’re sorry, but the pinch-proof hinges are no longer available.

As you see below, they were available for a while in 2018, but they are no longer available.

Yesterday I was at the Clopay Chicagoland distribution center, picking up a shipment of Clopay EZ-SET Springs.…

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Warehouse & Personnel Manager Wed

Tuesday, December 13th, 2016 at 1:53 pm by Dan Musick

Way to go, Neal and Jorie! Congratulations! We wish you all the best as you begin your lives together. The Warehouse Manager, Neal, and Jorie, Personnel Manager, were wed on October 21, 2016.

A picture of The Warehouse Manager, Neal, and Jorie, Personnel Manager, on their wedding day.

Neal has been a huge help since we were working out of our garage, not many years ago.…

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Click Farms

Tuesday, November 15th, 2016 at 1:09 pm by Dan Musick
An image representing that Click Farming caused the graph fluctuation.

Over the past year, my company – and many others – have been the victims of a disturbing business competition strategy being used by certain disreputable companies, whose aim is to falsely cast their targeted competitors as being “disliked” on public media sites.…

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Cubs Win!

Thursday, November 3rd, 2016 at 7:35 am by Dan Musick

Way to go, Cubs!

2016 World Champions!

The Cubs celebrating their 2016 World Series win with the Chicago skyline in the background.
Chicago Cub fans celebrating their World Series win.
Chicago city streets filled with fans celebrating the World Series win.

This is the Cubs first World Series win in 108 years! …

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High Lift Assembly Modifications

Monday, December 21st, 2015 at 9:41 am by Dan Musick

Since we first posted our custom High Lift Garage Door Conversion instructions several years ago, we have noticed a few things that need to be improved through assembly modifications.

One was the alignment of the horizontal and vertical angles in step 7.11.…

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