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LiftMaster Garage Door Openers with MyQ Technology comes to Kansas City

The new LiftMaster® Elite® Series Model 8500 Wall Mount Garage Door Opener, the Elite Series® 8550, and Premium Series 8360 and 8355 garage door openers offer many innovative and unique features to help benefit the homeowners who purchase them. Read more below about the unique features and find resources to help you decide which one is right to you. Our two new openers and related accessories offer many innovative and unique features

July 24th, 2014|

Bad LEDs Can Interfere With Garage Door Openers

Source: Deni Hawkins, “Can LED lights interfere with your garage door opener?” KBOI-TV Boise, Idaho, April 17, 2014. In this local TV news report, a homeowner who installed several LED  lights around his house found they prevented his garage door opener  from working. When the lights were on, the GDO remote didn’t work.  When the LED lights were off, the remote worked fine. Editor’s Note: Mark Karasek, Chamberlain executive vice

July 16th, 2014|

Freak Garage Door Accident

Source: “Oakville boy, 9, expected to recover after garage door incident,” 680  Radio News, Toronto, Ontario, April 30, 2014. Several news media in the Toronto area closely covered this story about a 9-year-old boy who was in critical condition after a bizarre garage door accident. According to reports, the boy entered his pass code on an external keypad. As the garage door opened, his hoodie was apparently snagged by the T-handle on the center of the door. He was

July 9th, 2014|

Video Goes Viral: How to Break Into a Garage Door

A YouTube video with 1.4 million views teaches burglars how to break into a garage door in six seconds. Several local TV news stations—and some door dealers—are spreading bad information on how to thwart this break-in method. Our report explains why they've got it all wrong. Good Advice Nonetheless, if you are looking for ways to defeat this type of break-in, here are some  alternatives. Frost your garage door windows to obscure visibility.

June 29th, 2014|

First-Ever Building Code Requiring Tornado-Resistant Garage Doors

Mayor Is "Fixated on Garage Doors" By Tom Wadsworth, CDDC Editor, Door + Access Systems The Progression of Collapse In a special presentation to the Moore City Council on Feb. 18, Chris Ramseyer used the following images to display how the progressive deconstruction of a home starts with the garage door. All photos and captions were provided by Chris Ramseyer. On March 17, 2014, the city of Moore,

June 29th, 2014|

Before and After New Garage Doors

Check out this amazing before and after. Sure they did a little more that just new garage doors, but they obviously got a big boost in curb appeal! If you are thinking about changing out your garage doors I would recommend taking a picture of your house and then cutting out different garage doors and placing them over existing so you can see what they would look like.

February 8th, 2014|

We are now offering Entry Doors!

Superior Door Service is proud to announce two new wholesale partners to our door business! Previously, we were only able to offer garage and commercial doors to our clients, and now thanks to Akron Hardware and Midwest Wholesale Hardware, we can now offer entry and pedestrian doors. Through the above wholesale companies, Superior Door Service has access to the following hardware brands: Corbin Russwin, Yale, Sargent, Norton, Rixson, Arrow, McKinney,

January 12th, 2014|