Recent content by sedouglas72

I'm going to second (or third) that the local contractor is going to be your most important part. I had issues with my Carolina Carport garage, that weren't the building, but the mistakes of the contractor. I couldn't get CC to do anything to fix, which I found was the case with many other...

How about a picture of the opener?

It doesn't appear to so far, when it was super humid over the weekend, this home unit got mine down pretty quick. I was surprised it worked so well. It hasn't had to kick on in the last day or so. I may get proven wrong, as I am frequently, usually by my wife. :)

Except that the dehumidifier turns on and off at a set humidity and a window unit won't. That's why I tossed that idea out. It should consume much less electricity than a window unit. When it is really humid and likely to condense on the floor, the little extra heat won't hurt at all.

I would suggest oversized, but not over the top. The commercial ones will likely last a lot longer, but I can't imagine mine running very often outside of when it is rainy and cold, but I haven't had my garage for a full year yet and will know more later. If you are near a bigger city you can...

Just following up in case anyone searches for this same issue. I was able to pick up a slightly used Midea that is linked above and it works like a champ. I used a box fan and open doors to initially dry the floor but no condensation has come back. It pulled about 5 gallons of water out of...

Make sure it isn't built by Carolina Carports. I have one, and while it looks fantastic, I found some issues with the installation after the installer left and their willingness to perform service is zero. If you look at the reviews for the actual company and not the selling agent, you will...

Liftmaster makes a remote unit you can hard wire in to switches or the opener and it will work with their remotes or homelink transmitters. https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0071EYS9M/?tag=atomicindus08-20 Just noticed how old this really is. Wow.

Someone has that Midea for sale locally, lightly used, for $60. That might be worth a shot. I have an aprilaire in my attic (why in Texas, I'm not exactly sure) and not wanting to go that expensive, unless I absolutely have to.

I just need it to run outside. Some I was looking at seemed to only have a drain bucket. I want to be able to run it outside the garage. It being metal, I can drill a hole anywhere to run it outside. I guess I could just modify any of them to have a gravity drain now that I think about it.

I've been struggling with condensation in my 25x45 metal garage in North Texas in the last month or so. Spray foam on ceiling, but nothing on walls. Very air leaky, but no circulation efforts as of yet. thinking of adding some window fans to help that, but also have been reading a lot of old...

Same theory, slightly different parts. I can see how it could work to some degree, but it’s going to be hard on the motor. All of the fab parts and time make the second opener a much easier sell.

So I have a CCI metal building and I saw the guy on YouTube that connected his two garage doors and used a standard garage door opener up the wall to open them both. Link below for reference. I’m pretty good at fabricating stuff, but just wanted to put this out there for others to see. Don’t...

The cheap Chinese DVR's may be easy to hack (for a true Hacker) but the real danger is a corporation with PCI or other sensitive information allowing access to their network via a compromised device. For a DVR in your garage, there is literally no risk unless you process credit cards on a local...

Sorry no, but don't go with any dealers that use Carolina Carports. Their service is horrible.