Garage Door Co Repair Pros has received price increase notices from several of its suppliers. Amarr an Entrematic company has announced a significant price increase effective 01/26/2015. Amarr's price Increase is 3.0% on all residential and commercial sectional garage doors and parts.This means any special order placed after the first week of January 2015 or stock garage door order not picked up by 01/26/2015 will be subject to the higher  Amarr’s last increase was 3.8% effective 01/27/2014. Source is the Dealer Memo dated 12/04/2014 by Lyle Symons who is VP of Sales and Marketing, Amarr. Clopay has announced a significant price increase of 3.0% on all garage door products effective 02/02/2015. Classic series wood doors will increase 6 to 13%. Canyon Ridge ultra-grain series will increase 7%. Clopay's last increase was 2.8% effective 02/03/2014.Unlike Amarr, Clopay will honor existing pricing for orders in their system by the date of the increase 02/02/2015. Source is the dealer letter dated 12/01/2014 by Pat Lohse who is VP of Marketing and Mike Taylor who is VP of Sales and Customer Service. These vendors are citing material costs, especially steel, increased wage costs,  the annual cost increases associated with running a business, and the Affordable Health Care Act as the reason to need the price increase. We will honor proposals written prior to the manufacturers price increase 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. Garage Door Co Repair Pros is still making pricing adjustments but expects to pass along most of this price increase. This will affect garage doors & parts sold in the Chicago, IL area as well as out of area requests. Please check our website at www.gdcorp.com for further details.