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A Balanced Garage Door

Tuesday, November 3rd, 2015 at 11:23 am by Dan Musick
An image showing how garage door counterbalance works.

At DDM Garage Doors, we go to great lengths to help our customers select the correct springs. Sometimes customers order the wrong springs, the garage door doesn’t balance, and they contact us for help.

On standard lift and industrial vertical lift garage doors like you find in businesses and homes, there are three common scenarios.…

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High Lift Garage Door Conversion – We Track With Garage Owners Who Need Parts

Thursday, February 23rd, 2012 at 2:19 pm by Dan Musick
An image of a high lift garage door conversion kit.
High Lift Kit

The number of customers calling us to help convert their garage doors to high lift track systems has grown considerably over the past year. Furthermore, our ability to process high lift garage door conversions has always benefited from the input of our great technical staff, headed by owner Dan Musick.…

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Vertical Lift a Good Alternative to High Lift Garage Door?

Thursday, October 13th, 2011 at 9:27 am by Dan Musick

High lift or vertical lift? The answer is up to you.

A view of a vertical lift garage door.

I receive numerous calls every week from customers who want to raise the lift of their garage doors. Here are some considerations:

You may want a vertical lift system if your garage has at least the door’s height plus 18″ of room above your door’s original height AND…

a.…

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