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I live in the North East (New Jersey), and my wife and I are looking at a house that has electric forced air heating. There is no gas in the area. Wondering if anyone has any input as to how expensive it can get to heat with electricity during cold winters. It's a 2,700 square foot house and I'm...

For future reference, most garage door manufacturers provide an obscure window option. It only costs the dealer maybe $30 more on a single-wide door $60 on a double-wide. Sevach, there's a good chance you can contact your door dealer and ask them to order the obscure glass for that door from...

If you don't want to do the 8500, I definitely recommend just buying any Liftmaster opener with a 10' rail (actual rail length would be longer - it's just made for a 10' high door. You would need to contact a local garage door guy and buy it from him, but it's definitely more durable than doing...

I never had much confidence in Craftsman products, other than their hand tools, after seeing how their openers were made. They would cut every corner possible to lower costs and ended up with openers that were super noisy and had a lot of parts that would break because they were cheapened up. So...

Welcome, Algunn. If you need new doors, want to add windows to your existing doors, want to turn them into high lift doors (so the tracks run up the front wall and then turn horizontal at the ceiling), or whatever, let me know. If not, still would like to see what you do.

Awesome, thanks!

Hi upndown. My brother-in-law lives right near you in Scottsdale. I'll reach out to you if they have any garage door troubles. They have very heavy, very thick wood doors. I think they were custom made by a builder/carpenter or something, not a door manufacturer. I find that those types of doors...

Sears, Chamberlain and Liftmaster openers (all manufactured by Chamberlain) have used the same exact eyes for the past 20 years or so. If you did buy eyes for any of these openers they would work fine, across these brands. The eye with the yellow LED is the sending eye and the one with the green...

Hi all, Just found this site last night and thought it was very cool. Always looking for new ideas and to learn more about garage building and setups. Hopefully I can contribute my knowledge whenever possible. Feel free to hit me up if you have any questions about doors and/or openers. Scott