Watch our garage door "accident" on NBC's Chicago Fire 4/3/13

We were glad to provide and install  2 Amarr Stratford 3000 pinch resistant garage doors for NBC's hit series Chicago Fire recently. Filming was performed on location on Chicago's north side. We are told the episode featuring these garage doors will air 04/03/2013. Without giving away the plot we can reveal that an individual is severely injured by one of the 2 garage doors and is found hanging from the garage door track. Maybe he should have followed all of those safety warnings on the label!

New Clopay Medium & Cherry Ultragrain for Premium series raised panel doors available

Literature for the Clopay Premium series Ultragrain Medium and Cherry finish is now available on our website www.gdcorp.com

Although the Ultragrain was previously only available on the Gallery series door it is now available for the Premium series classic  raised panel (4300/4310/9130/9133/9200/9203) doors. The Ultragrain finish option is a popular choice to upscale from standard paint colors. We have a physical sample and addresses in the Chicago, IL area where these door can be viewed.

Have a "Good Friday" & Easter / Happy Passover - but let's not be too pc

This week many of our customers will celebrate Good Friday & Easter or Passover. While some of our customers may think it is not pc (politically correct) to speak of these days we feel that everyone should be able to accept others holidays. An example of the pc going too far came the other day from Clopay Garage Doors when we received our annual fax advising us that their distribution centers (and corporate offices) would be closed on Friday April 6, 2012 for "Spring Break Day".

Clopay starts offering oil tempered coated and marked torsion springs

Like many Clopay dealers we were very disappointed years ago when Clopay switched from oil tempered to galvanized torsion springs for residential doors. They would not allow the doors to be ordered with the oil tempered springs even though they were available on a special order basis since the commercial doors were still be offered with the oil tempered springs. Garage Door Co Repair Pros has been supplying all doors and replacement springs as oil tempered for years and was requiring Clopay to remove the galvanized spring cost from every door order.

New Clopay Walnut Oak Ultragrain literature available

Literature for the Clopay Gallery series Ultragrain Walnut Oak finish is now available on our website www.gdcorp.com

Since its introduction several months ago we have found this to be much more popular than either the Medium Oak or the Dark Oak. We have a physical sample and addresses in the Chicago, IL area where these door can be viewed. Please contact us to schedule an estimate or with any questions.

Amarr VISTA full view glass residential garage doors available

Amarr has added to their residential garage door product line with the Vista full view glass & aluminum garage doors. Various glass types including frosted are available. These doors can be powder coated in numerous colors. For very modern looking houses we are seeing more customers considering this type of door (including the Avante door by Clopay). Literature is available on our website at www.gdcorp.com. Lead times can vary based on glass and frame styles from 3-6 weeks.

Ultra grain Walnut now available

Clopay has started shipping the latest color in the Ultra Grain line - Walnut. This is in addition to medium oak and dark oak. Market testing shows most reviewers preferred the walnut to the dark oak. The ultra grain finish is available on Gallery series doors from Clopay and provides both vertical and horizontal grain patterns to simulate a "real" stained wood door with the insulation and low maintenance of a steel door. In fact we can supply these doors with an insulation value up to r=17.2. We are awaiting literature with the new color but we do have color chip samples.

Price increase - Clopay 06/2011

Clopay has announced a price increase of 6% on all garage door products (except for wood doors are 5% and Avante are 3%) which goes into effect 06/06/2011. This is the second price increase this year (prior was 02/07/2011).  We will honor proposals written prior to 06/06/2011 for the time indicated at the bottom of the proposal (usually 45 days). Please contact us with any questions about how this may effect a proposal we have provided for your project.
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