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A garage door usually gets attention only when it stops moving, starts shrieking at 6:30 in the morning, or traps a car inside on the day someone is already lat…

Storm damage rarely arrives in a neat, obvious package. In New Jersey, a garage door can look mostly intact after a hard coastal wind, a line of summer thunders…

A garage door is easy to ignore when it works. It lifts, closes, seals out the weather, and lets the day move along without much thought. Then one morning it sh…

New Jersey asks a lot from a garage door. In one calendar year, a door can face freezing rain, coastal humidity, summer heat that bakes south-facing panels, and…

A garage door is the largest moving object in most homes, and that fact tends to get ignored until something goes wrong. The door starts shuddering halfway up, …

A garage door opener usually gets attention only when it stops doing its job. One day the remote works from halfway down the driveway, the next day the door hes…

Garage doors tend to earn attention only when they stop moving. On a mild spring morning, that is an inconvenience. In a New Jersey winter, with sleet blowing s…

A garage door rarely fails all at once. Most of the time, it gives you a string of warnings first, small changes in sound, speed, balance, or feel that are easy…