Sunday, May 29, 2016
Garage Wont Shut Naperville
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Monday, May 23, 2016
Garages For Grown Men
Grown Men Garage Man Cave
Are you tired of that drab garage? Update it for the ultimate in man caves, were talking about the garages that grown men desire for all of those new toys. The offering of garage doors have radically changed in the past ten years moving away from the boring to the quite fabulous.
Garage doors now run the gamut from stark contemporary — the entire door is tempered glass set in aluminum frames — to French country. The most popular of the new doors is the carriage-house look. It's compatible with almost any traditional style of house. Even better, when a standard-sized, 16-by-7-foot garage door in this style is closed, it appears to be two pairs of carriage-house doors that swing out, not a big blank area on the front of your house.
You can also customize a carriage-house styled door to a remarkable degree by adding varying sizes and shapes of windows, trim pieces, bucks (from the street they look like huge X's), half bucks (they look like huge V's) and period-style hardware. The hardware options include straps (part of the hinges on the old doors), handles and clavos (studs that held the pieces of wood together on the old doors).
All this comes at some cost, especially compared with your basic white steel door with raised panels that many home builders still use. For a new house, the installed price for a generic two-car-sized door can be as low as $300, while the upscale carriage-house door in a two-car size can cost $600 to $30,000. The huge price difference depends on the material used — steel or wood — and the degree to which you customize it.At the high end — $7,000 to $30,000 — you are not limited to the carriage-house look. Manufacturers will execute any design you present with any wood that is commercially available. You can add almost any feature you want, including windows with leaded or beveled glass.
Designer Doors uses hand-forged hardware on its custom doors and offers unusual features such as a wicket, an operable entry door built into a garage door. That's a handy arrangement when the front of a row house is too narrow for separate front and garage doors. Designer Doors can also fabricate matching front and garage doors, a great way to create a cohesive look for the front of the house.
Still high end, but not in the stratosphere, semi-custom, wood carriage-house doors in the two-car size run about $4,000 to $5,000, installed. They are not quite as fabulous as the custom doors, but you still get a gorgeous door with a deep, rich color that grabs you from 50 feet away. You can customize it with bucks, hardware and windows choices.
These options are fine and dandy if you are going for the contemporary look, but we are talking "pimped out" the ultimate in male recreation, style and show off. Were talking about what you would do if money were no object...the ultimate in home customization. Its called the Cardock a unique garage alternative designed to manage two cars in one driveway.
The Cardock can support approximately 10 tons (22,400 lbs) of combined weight. This is enough to support the vehicle it lifts from the dark recesses of your front lawn, as well as the vehicle you may potentially leave parked on top. This allows the cars to interchange without having to drive the top vehicle away before lifting the other.
The Cardock will set you back around $72,000 for the double capacity lift, which makes you consider what percentage of your home’s value that number might represent. So far there are eight already installed in the nicer parts of London, England, with four more being installed and ten that have been ordered.
Get ready to be the talk of the neighborhood this is a garage upgrade straight from the Bat Cave.
Read full article here: https://blog.houseplans.com/article/garage-doors-grow-up
Related article: https://www.geeksaresexy.net/2012/02/15/hideaway-car-elevator-for-your-driveway/#DvYFVsVMFr0EKXqm.99
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Sunday, May 15, 2016
The Importance of Garage Maintenance
When it comes to maintaining your home, I heard it stated to me once by a longtime homeowner. That maintaining a home is like trying to keep a cube of ice from melting...it is inevitable. When it comes to garage door maintenance a little preventative TLC, can go a long way to prevent unforeseen repairs and causing an inconvenience. According to the website Naperville Garage Door Pro;
Normally the garage door springs and cables are the most common parts to fail. Usually they are rated for about 10,000 or so cycles or so. Spring replacement is an area to be careful with as it is usually the biggest scam artists seem to prey on unsuspecting homeowners. So it's important to find a trustworthy company. A good rule of thumb is to lubricate your door and it's components annually (or up to twice a year), can help keep everything in order. You can also schedule an inexpensive tune-up with a professional.
The springs of your garage door are the most worked an typically they are rated for different open and close cycles depending on the torque that is built into them. Usually 10,000 is pretty common.
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The website goes on the state that;
The garage door is the biggest appliance in the home and often the most neglected. Just like your car it requires garage door maintenance periodically to increase the longevity of both the door and operator. Garage door maintenance and service should happen every couple of years by a reputable company. You the home owner can check the balance of your garage door by closing the door (if the door has a motor then close the door with the motor and then release the door from the motor using the red manual release cord). Now open and close the door manually the door should open and close easily with little or no effort. If you have to force the door to open or close at any point in the cycle then you already know it is in need of adjustment, open the door half way and let go...if the door stays and was easy to open and close then the door is balanced if the door is heavy and closes when you let go then it is out of balanced and requires service by a reputable company.
Then we can see it that this is sound advice... with garage maintenance a little attention on an ongoing basis could prevent costly repairs from happening later.
Read The Full Article Here: http://www.napervillegaragedoorpro.com/overhead-door-maintenance.html
See Garage Door Maintenance Videos Here: https://goo.gl/XnBuZK
Read Full Article Here: The Importance of Garage Maintenance
Friday, May 13, 2016
Sunday, May 8, 2016
Using Lien Waivers When Hiring Sub-Contractors
Lien Waivers in Home Improvements
This is an important lesson I learned early on when taking on home improvements and choosing a contractor to go with when getting started on that remodeling project. Here are a few things to keep in mind. When you hire a home remodeling General Contractor he is responsible overseeing your entire project from beginning to end. Usually, he will “hire out” some if not all of the different aspects needed to complete your job to subcontractors such as: plumbing, hvac, electrical, painting, garage installation, etc. In my experience, most of the homes remodeling general contractors that I have hired were either carpenters and/or construction management specialists.
During a major overhead garage door home improvements or repairs there can be many adjustments made some that will require workforce and budget tightening. I have learned that a good GC is a very good manager. The general contractor has to be proficient in managing the work site materials, the labor (sub-contractors), finances as well as the local government permit and home construction inspection process.
I have had my share of residential construction general contractors mismanage some of my home improvements projects even when I have done I that I can to make the job as fool proof as possible by doing most of the management myself when it came to the local government and work site materials (which was a nightmare). The area of the sub-contractor was a complete “blind spot” to me at that time. I mean…I hired the general contractor because he was a specialist in construction and had been in construction for many years. During those years there should have been some solid working relationships forged with other contractors one would assume.
Specifically, with commercial service sub-contractors…in my garage door opener installation and remodel the sub-contractors had gone weeks without getting paid and eventually put a lien on my property because the general contractor hire them improperly and later fired them without completely paying them for their share of work as the sub-contractors alleged.
This lien removal had to be arbitrated by a third party and the whole process took many months to perform steam carpet cleaning and repair even when they had been offered payment from me directly. This all could have be avoided if myself or the general contractor would have had the proper lien waiver clause in his agreement to the sub-contractors that all matters and disputes are between the general contractor and the “subs”. If you don't have a lien waiver form or clause in your contracts when completing your home improvements you may be looking for trouble in your next project.
Read Full Article Here: Using Lien Waivers When Hiring Sub-Contractors
Wednesday, May 4, 2016
Why Does Affordable Housing Need Saving?
In recent years the skyrocketing housing prices in major cities in the United States have raised the specter of driving out people who cannot afford to pay the increasingly high rents. Many housing advocates argue that the most practical way to prevent dislocation of the poor is to save government-subsidized privately owned low-income rental dwellings.
Why does such “affordable housing” need to be saved? After all, you might point out, public housing doesn’t change into private market housing.
In fact, subsidized rental housing is quite different than public housing. Begun in the 1930s under President Franklin Roosevelt, public housing was created and managed solely by government agencies. Under subsidized housing programs, the first of which started about 1960, the federal government gave various financial incentives to private nonprofit and for-profit companies to build, manage, and own rental projects for low-income households. Public housing was pretty much all government; subsidized low-income housing took the form of public-private collaborations.
Most significantly, the projects under the two housing programs ran for dramatically different lengths of time. The federal government financed public housing over such long terms – with sixty year construction loans, for example – as to make it seem almost permanent. In contrast, the terms of the subsidies under public-private housing schemes were relatively short – most for only twenty or twenty-five years.
Back in the 1960s and ‘70s, the authors of the subsidized housing programs gave little thought to what would happen when the subsidies ended. But years later, when the subsidies began to expire, people realized that enormous numbers of low-income dwellings could easily disappear. Poor people would have no place to live. In response, housing advocates raised the cry, “preserve affordable housing!”
Read The Entire Article Here: http://housingperspectives.blogspot.com/2016/05/why-does-affordable-housing-need-saving.html
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