A1 Garage Door Service - Garage Door Maintenance

Tommy Mello from A1 Garage Door Service joins Check A Pro Joe on this episode of Check A Pro Radio. Tommy talks about garage doors, maintenance and some of the latest technology in the garage door industry.

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This is the check a pro radio show check a pro Joe has assembled a team of pre-qualified home service contractors to bring you the latest in services products and techniques now here's your host the man with a hard hat and tool belt checkup row Joe Tommy Mellow how are you doing my friend doing great got done working out with the trainer so things are good! Hey I get a lot of questions from people being in home service from my point of view a lot of questions come up and the question of the day is when people buy a home whether it's new or an existing home you know they have a garage door already in there what is that garage door who's made that garage door who's got the warranty on that garage door in most cases is a regular house not a custom home but a regular home is that a good door or is that considered like a builder door so that's a really great question and what I could tell you is there's larger manufacturers of garage doors throughout the country that own a lot of them but as far as new construction is concerned there's a company called Wayne Dalton and Wayne Dalton is a mammoth company they do most of the new home construction they've got different series stores 9100 is there common one 'cause it's semi insulated it's it's in my opinion it's kind of a flimsy door it's it's a cheap door but it's good for the builders they get a discount and rebates and things like that but Wayne Dalton has an interesting product because they've got proprietary springs called the torque master or a Torquemaster plus spring system and we do a lot of work our way Dallas is because that's just the majority of what the words get installed on a new home and it's interesting because years and years ago Joe it started out that Wayne Dalton had a five year warranty when you bought the home and had a five year warranty on parts and then they went to three-year on their torque masters then they went to one year now why would you warranty a product for one year and I'm not slamming wait Dalton I'm just telling you this is their policies on their website and with their products Can you imagine why you would have a one year warranty well first of all you're limiting your liability but you're not backing up your product I mean if it only has a one year warranty that means that it may not last more than a year they usually last 14-15 maybe two years it's all out cycle life so each time that it goes up and down as a cycle So what we do is we've got an opportunity to replace that torquemaster which by the way usually special order so it's a couple weeks out if you call Wayne Dalton they're primarily installation so they don't have a big service department they're usually out four to six weeks and during the pandemic they got behind right now they're I I've heard over a year behind on things we take a torquemaster we take down and we put a torsion spring conversion system so we put a conventional torque tube drums cables bearing plates and springs then we could give a lifetime warranty because that goes from a low cycle to an 80,000 cycles so if you use your door 10 times a day you're using it a few thousand times a year that's gonna last you I don't know 20 some odd years and we get a lot of calls 9100 it's lightly insulated door now check this out a regular door weighs about 160 pounds Wayne Dalton insulated 9100 weighs about 140 pounds so that just tells you it's literally II if I push really hard I can plug my finger through the door so it's like aluminum foil it is like a really, really heavy it's a well done foil it literally is like baked on foil and if you took a pencil you stick it through II it's a little thinner than a paint can OK so it's very efficient for them it's not that expensive but they're getting the job done because their job is to make sure that the builder has a door to put on the House so when you buy the home you have a door just like you'll have some paint and you'll have some carpet but it's kind of what we call builder grade well this is what I look at when I buy a home Joe I go out there and I look at certain things you could tell a lot believe it or not by the garage because you know as a garage door guys say what kind of opener did they put in or what kind of door did they put in because then I could basically tell you did they did they go the cheapest on the cabinets did they go they did they you know go with the slow closed cabinets what did they do on the outlets wha...