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Low Headroom Garage Doors

Monday, August 31st, 2015 at 8:30 am by Dan Musick

We frequently get inquiries about low headroom garage door applications. A low headroom garage door is one where there is not enough clearance above the door to install a normal torsion spring assembly. The most common type of low headroom door is one with double low headroom garage door tracks.…

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New DIY Instructions App for Cell Phones

Thursday, May 28th, 2015 at 11:20 am by Dan Musick

In 2015, we introduced a mobile app. However, we later obsoleted this app because we formatted our site for smart phones, and because of the growing abundance of support on our site that was not on the earlier app. The app contained a wealth of technical information on garage door springs and spring conversions, garage door and opener maintenance and repairs, high lift conversions, low headroom solutions, weather seals, and dock leveler repairs.…

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How Mechanical Dock Levelers Work – Preview

Thursday, May 14th, 2015 at 7:29 pm by Dan Musick

I’ve been working in the garage door business for over 36 years. It wasn’t until a few years ago that one of my employees explained to me how mechanical dock levelers work. It’s taken many months, many videos, many graphics, and a lot of animation, but in early July, we expect to be posting the completed video on YouTube so professional door technicians and other tradesmen can understand how they work.…

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Neal Secker, DDM Garage Doors Warehouse Manager

Thursday, April 30th, 2015 at 4:03 pm by Dan Musick
An image of Neal Secker, warehouse manager, working hard in the warehouse.

Neal Secker forms an important link in the supply chain for DDM Garage Doors to local customers, North America, and the world.

Neal serves Christ as a warehouse manager at DDM. His primary responsibility is to oversee and participate in the daily operations of the warehouse.…

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PowerMaster Operators

Thursday, April 23rd, 2015 at 11:10 am by Dan Musick

V.E. Power Door is the manufacturer of the PowerMaster brand of sectional door, rolling door, and sliding gate operators. The founder, Philip Lanzarone, established V.E. Power Door in October of 1969. Furthermore, from its Long Island facility, the original creation of the company was to service North American Door.…

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International Door Association IDA Expo 2015 Indianapolis

Thursday, April 16th, 2015 at 11:11 am by Dan Musick
International Door Association Expo 2015 onsite program and event badges.

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This is the first trade show for door dealers that I’ve attended in over 20 years. The trade organization used to be called D.O.D.A., short for Door and Operator Dealers of America. While at the International Door Association Expo, I took a lot of pictures and videos I’d hoped to post here, but I discovered on the way out that I was not to publish them.…

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Integrity

Thursday, April 9th, 2015 at 4:42 pm by Dan Musick

Business relationships are based on trust.

Trust is based on integrity.

But trust is not blind.

“Trust, but verify.” You may remember Ronald Reagan quoting these words in the context of the United States trusting the Soviet Union.

“Listen to what they say; watch what they do.”…

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DDM Garage Doors’ Website Goes Mobile!

Thursday, April 2nd, 2015 at 1:13 pm by Dan Musick

The human hand is becoming “smartphone shaped” these days. And garage door springs keep on breaking. Not everyone has a desktop or laptop in their garage in order to access DDM Garage Doors’ website. You and your family drive frequently. And shuttling between the garage and the den, one may lose some vital information in transit.…

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Updated DIY Instruction Library to Serve Our Customers

Thursday, March 26th, 2015 at 4:28 pm by Dan Musick
An image of the DIY Garage Door Instruction Library page on the site.

About ten years ago, we uploaded our first page of DIY instructions now titled “How to Replace Garage Door Torsion Springs.”

Over the years, we added additional instructions, and about five years ago, we linked 10 or 15 tutorials to our DIY Instructions Page.…

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New Employee for New Markets: Jane Herbert

Friday, March 20th, 2015 at 8:43 am by Dan Musick

In changing economic times, DDM sees a strategic opportunity to help customers find a growing array of commercial and industrial garage doors, garage door parts, dock leveler parts, and garage door springs online with rapid web accessibility, backed by DDM Garage Doors’ quality commitment.…

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