• A1 Garage Door Repair Podcast

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A1 Garage Door Repair Podcast

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  • As heard on the Check A Pro Radio Show, this is the A1 Garage Door Service Podcast! Whether you need to repair an existing garage door or replace it with a new one, A1 Garage Door Service can help. Equipped with the industry’s best training and tools, our team will empower you to make the right choice for your home.
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  • How Does The Cold Weather Affect My Garage Door Springs? with Jon Phillips

    How Does The Cold Weather Affect My Garage Door Springs? with Jon Phillips
    Jan 2 2025
    Today on the show Check A Pro Joe is joined by Jon Phillips from A1 Garage Door Service, headquartered in Phoenix, AZ. Joe asks Jon this question: "How Does The Cold Weather Affect My Garage Door And Garage Door Springs?" Check out this episode for the answer to this commonly asked question... For assistance with your garage doors please call A1 Garage Door Service - (844) 214-2025. Log on to - www.a1garage.com Podcast Transcription: 0:00 it's spring snapping season we're not 0:04 talking about fishing or something it 0:06 sounds like a fishing thing it's it's 0:07 the season four no we are talking about 0:09 your garage door spring when the 0:13 temperature goes up in the summertime 0:15 and down in the winter time as we are 0:17 now in winter time we go to these 0:20 extreme changes your spring on your 0:23 garage door is more likely to snap I've 0:25 asked a garage door expert John Phillips 0:28 from A1 Garage Door Service to join me 0:30 here on the program to discuss this hi 0:32 John how are you 0:34 Hey Joe how's it going thanks for having 0:36 me back on no absolutely so 0:39 um I've known this for some time in the 0:42 extreme heat and you know we get that a 0:45 lot in the Phoenix area for instance 0:46 where A1 is based 0:50 um the Springs don't like the extremes 0:53 and also in the winter time we can get 0:55 cool too or cold and that's not good so 0:59 tell us what happens when we hit these 1:01 extremes 1:02 right so Springs metal uh hot oil 1:05 tempered there's galvanized but at the 1:07 end of the day the base is metal and 1:10 you'll have a spring and maybe it's a 1:12 little bit out of its cycle life it's a 1:13 little bit older and just that that last 1:16 straw that broke the camel's back is 1:18 that fluctuation in weather whether it 1:20 goes from hot to cold or cold to hot 1:22 that's just the last piece that it takes 1:24 and then bang hear that loud noise in 1:27 the garage you don't know what it was 1:29 until you can't open the door you know 1:32 that's just it that's a Telltale sign if 1:34 you hear a bang in your garage and your 1:37 kids aren't playing with firecrackers 1:38 and your husband's not in there with the 1:39 gun it's likely right it's likely the 1:44 spring because it makes a big bang and 1:46 when that happens please do not try to 1:48 move your door you really can't it's 1:50 very heavy isn't it yeah it's super 1:52 heavy especially if you're on like a 1:54 single spring system then we don't have 1:57 anything to lift up that door so 1:59 whenever you get the opportunity always 2:01 put two Springs on a door when you can 2:04 so let's talk about ways of keeping the 2:08 cool air out in the winter time and the 2:10 hot air out in the summertime with 2:13 weather seal and also kind of keeps the 2:15 critters out too right so whenever 2:17 starting with the spring snapping you're 2:20 going to get a garage door Tech out 2:21 there and it's going to come to a point 2:24 where you're putting money into the door 2:25 now of course at A1 Garage Door we have 2:28 the best Springs that last over 80 000 2:31 cycles and you'll never have to worry 2:32 about it again but at the same time do 2:36 you want to put that work into a door do 2:38 you even like that door 2:40 so yes we can repair the door but we got 2:43 to talk about the investment value and 2:45 is the garage cold so you want to put 2:48 money into the door but you never go out 2:50 in the garage because whichever heat or 2:52 cold is going on outside makes it 2:54 unbearable in your garage so what can we 2:58 do to make your garage comfortable and 3:00 work for you and going from the trim to 3:03 the bottom rubber to the actual door 3:05 installation itself and what it's made 3:06 out of how about we get you into 3:08 something that you actually like and 3:10 gives you a good Roi or return on 3:13 investment for you 3:14 and John you know what's nice about 3:16 getting an entire new door is you have 3:19 the opportunity to get a new track 3:21 system new rollers new hinges new 3:23 everything the new seals and it is brand 3:27 new right so every it's like getting a 3:29 new car you're not just getting a new 3:31 transmission you're not just getting new 3:33 Wheels you're getting a whole new car 3:36 and it's not that expensive for a huge 3:39 makeover not only are you getting a 3:41 great mechanical device which is your 3:42 garage door but it you know 3:43 aesthetically 3:45 it's huge uh in general doesn't the 3:49 garage door make up to 40 of the facade 3:52 of people's homes yes it does it's the 3:55 number one curb appeal I mean I've had 3:58 I've installed new garage doors before 4:01 and then the Neighbors come home and 4:03 then they come up to me they see my van 4:05 it says garage door guy on it and they 4:08 come up to me and the house looks so 4:10 different they'll come up and be like 4:11 hey can I get your business card do you 4:13 paint paint houses did you just paint 4:14 their ...
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  • What Should I Be Looking For In My Garage?

    What Should I Be Looking For In My Garage?
    Dec 1 2024

    Check A Pro Joe asks Jon Phillips this question: "What Should I Be Looking For In My Garage?"

    Check out this informative podcast about garage storage.

    For assistance with your garage doors please call A1 Garage Door Service -

    (844) 214-2025.

    Log on to - www.a1garage.com
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    7 mins
  • What Is A Garage Door Spring Phone App?

    What Is A Garage Door Spring Phone App?
    Nov 1 2024
    "So now as a homeowner, we're in this awkward situation to where I know because I can do the math and I have the app and I have to look at you and I have to tell you it's the wrong spring, but you just had it replaced a year ago." - Jon Phillips, Garage Door Expert Jim Klauck - AKA Check A Pro Joe has invited Jon Phillips from A1 Garage Door Service, headquartered in Phoenix, AZ stops by to talk about garage doors. Check A Pro Joe asks Jon this question: "What Is A Garage Door Spring Phone App?" Check out this episode for the answer to this commonly asked question... For assistance with your garage doors please call A1 Garage Door Service - (844) 214-2025. Log on to - www.a1garage.com Podcast Episode Transcription: Jon Phillips from a one garage door service is joining me here on the program. Hey, Jon, how you doing? I'm doing good Check pro how you been? I'm living the dream. Thank you so much. So I understand that you can help people homeowners find the perfect spring for their garage door. And you tell me that there's this newer technology today. It's not just some math that you guys used years ago or the real good guys, just take a look and say, hey, I know what spring you need and they pull out of the truck and put it in. You actually have uh an app for this. Yeah. Uh before getting to the app to kind of kind of explain. So springs are rated in, in IP P T and you can imagine that a door comes in a bunch of different weights and sizes and that weight is contributed to the type of rollers, the hinges, the struts door supports the type of track that it's in the type of drums that carry the cable. There's a lot of variables and then when it comes to the spring, springs are essentially the coiled wire and there's a lot of variables, but there's the wire size, the internal diameter And the overall length. Now you can do a bunch of math to find this out. This is how I was trained when I first started. So figuring out the wire size, counting 20 coils over, maybe you get a spring ruler like this. So you put this in there, you count 20 coils over, then it gives you the wire size. That's a quick way. Or you can do it in an old school method way to where you measure 10 coils, do a little bit of math. And then you can find out the wire size and then we gotta somehow on a spring when it's broken, it's very easy to find the inside diameter, right? But whenever a spring just isn't holding tension anymore from the outside. Well, I want to find the inside diameter, not the outside. So then we gotta do math again to figure out the outside diameter. Take that minus the actual spring gauge itself. So then we'll be able to find the ID. Well, and then we got to find out the weight of the door, right. So we gotta weigh the door. So when doing this, we gotta get a bathroom scale or a livestock scale. And then what we gotta do is we gotta take the tension and put it back off the spring and let all the weight sit there and, and by the way to use this. You also have to have a winning bar and actual tools to do this and you gotta make sure that you don't throw the cable and completely throw the door sideways whenever you do this. And, but that here's a public service announcement. Homeowners do not do this yourself. No, no, not at all. This is, should only be done by a professional, but there's a, there's a lot of steps in this and then you gotta take length divided by the wire size. So you'll find the total active coils. You take the total active coils minus the unused coils to find the active ones. And then you take the constant when, then you take that divided by the active coils and then you'll figure out the IP P T and then you need to find that M IP, which is the max inch pounds, you know, divided by the IP P T. So you can figure out how many turns are on. It gets complicated. Well, now it's on an app. Wow. Now it's all in an app from service Spring Corp. Uh, they have the S S C app to where we can just put in door data and it tells us exactly. So no more writing it on paper in the human error. It tells us exactly the total IP P T needed for that door. Now, here's where it benefits the client. I come to a lot of doors And I weigh every door that I go to, every, everyone at a one does, the door should weigh less than £5 on the ground. Typically, we don't want, the motor can maybe pull up to 10. But once we start getting above that, your motor's life is gonna go down from the wear and tear on it. So I go to the door, it weighs about 20-40 lbs on the ground. And then I'm like, hey, we might want to take a look at these springs and they say, oh no, we just had those springs replaced a year ago. Ok. So I look at it and it's the wrong spring. So now as a homeowner, we're in this awkward situation to where I know because I can do the math and I have the app and I have to look at you and I have to tell you it's the wrong spring, but you just had it replaced a year ago. So, how are you supposed to trust me? So, how about...
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    7 mins

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