I’ve always just tied my garage doors into my home security system using senors similar to those posted above. It works, but it’s admittedly clumsy. The wireless outfits are scary simply because they are battery powered. The wired units seem more industrial and I have had decent luck with them, but I’ve always wondered if there is a better way… or perhaps a more secure backup.

What do you guys do to secure your garage doors? Extra locks? Alarm sensors? Something else? Fill us in without giving away your security.

I stumbled on these garage doors and thought they were interesting. Essentially, they implement a man-door in a working/traditional garage door. At first thought, this might seem like a double up of sorts but in certain applications this could prove to be really handy.

You can check them out here.

This is just about as neat of a post as you are gonna find here on The Garage Journal. I got an email from one our new members and rather than restate it with glowing words, I figured I would just cut and paste the contents:

I was at a buddies shop this weekend and happened to look up. There was no way of missing it – My buddy had the biggest damned ceiling fan I’ve ever seen. I mean, it was huge. Of course, I had to ask…

“Oh yeah, that’s a Big Ass Fan.”

He wasn’t kidding. I had heard of Big Ass Fans before, but had never seen one in person. Impressive to say the least and the thing really moved some air. I’m assuming some of our members have used them and I’d like hear their thoughts. Efficient or no?

So you’ve got a handful of Lambos, but only a couple of open spaces in the garage? No sweat my man – just build under.

So brilliantly fake that I could help but share it here…