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Charlie's Chatter
Door To Door...
By Charles Alexander
We’ve lived in our current home while it was closed.
for 18 years. We had the house built, so it
Each incident not only damaged
was brand new when we moved in.
the door, which I managed to straighten
Although it was new construction, out each time to my satisfaction, but it
we needed to do a great deal of additional also took its toll on the automatic opener.
work in order to make the house and I reached a point at which I believed
grounds to our liking. We did lots of that my opener had seen better days,
landscaping, built a deck, built a dock, and needed to be replaced. I discovered
and finished the lower level. We’re now to my dismay that although the opener
finally at the point where pretty much all was still in fine shape, it was the door
that we have to do is that was at fault. The
keep the place up. metal sections had
become fatigued, and
Naturally, that HARLIE’S
was the house’s cue to C started to flex when
start falling apart. HATTER the door was raised
and lowered. This put
Most of the a strain on the opener,
repairs that were and created the need
needed were relatively for some relatively inexpensive repairs.
minor, but things got ugly when the
Now that the opener was
garage door failed. This was the result of
functioning properly, it was obvious that
18 years of constant use, compounded by
the door was on its way out. Every time
3 separate incidents in which a vehicle
it was raised or lowered, it would flex and
made unscheduled contact with the door
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