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It is 9/11/2013 and twelve years ago I can remember exactly what I did during the entire day. From the first Twin Tower crash to the concerns about the Sears Tower aka Willis Tower  (we are in a suburb of Chicago) to the President's address to the nation. We must never forget the lessons of 9/11.

A simply place to see some details of the 9/11 timeline are found here wikipedia link

Garage Door Co Repair Pros has been advise by Amarr (see below) that all medium woodgrain and dark woodgrain have been discontinued effective 6/21/2013. We have confirmed that replacement sections will NOT be available. Amarr is moving to a new dual direction woodgrain (similar concept to Clopay Ultragrain) moving forward. The new product is not available for order until the dates shown in the chart below.

Garage Door Co Repair Pros will be providing emergency service only on 05/27/2013 in observance of the Memorial Day holiday. We  encourage everyone to take a moment to remember and reflect on our founding fathers, friends, family, our military personnel and the meaning on the holiday. In these tough times for many it is good to remember our freedoms, the Constitution, the Declaration of Independence and the Bill of Rights.

Garage Door Co Repair Pros will resume regular service at 0700 CDT on Tuesday 05/28/2013.  Our service area is N/NW Chicago and suburbs

Garage Door Co Repair Pros found out on 05/02/2013 that there was a production problem with Amarr dark woodgrain garage doors. Yesterday Amarr corporate made it official when they sent a dealer memo which said:

Garage Door Co Repair Pros wishes to express our best wishes to the employees and Eckert family during these difficult times. Eckert Door Company (Milwaukee, WI) has been one of our garage door suppliers for many years and they are closing their doors after over 50 years. Eckert manufactured wood garage doors and distributed products from other vendors too. Our usual contact was with Tim in their Carpentersville, IL distribution center. Thanks Tim for your professional service and enjoy your retirement.

Garage Door Co Repair Pros has received the pdf versions of the new Liftmaster 8355 model literature and owners manual. These are both available on our website at www.gdcorp.com Literature is available on our home page and the manual is on the instructions page (click the link near the top of our home page). We expect stock on the new model next week and still have some model 3280 belt drive openers for sale. See our previous post about the additions and changes for this new model.

Garage Door Co Repair Pros has received an official announcement from Liftmaster (by Chamberlain) that the model 3280 1/2hp belt drive garage door opener has been discontinued. Rumors of this have been circulating for awhile but as seen below it is not official. In a move towards expanding the MyQ product line Liftmaster has replaced the model 3280 with the model 8355 which is a 1/2 hp belt drive with MyQ. The model 3280 was our most popular model since it was quieter than the chain drive (ie model 3255 or 3265) and was priced competitively.

The recent flooding in the Chicago area (especially near our Park Ridge, IL office) has damaged many garage door safety eyes (aka ir sensors). These sensors are mounted on both sides of the garage door opening and within 6 inches of the floor. All openers manufactured after 01/2003 are required to have these sensors per UL325. They are designed to reduce entrapment risks by sending an infrared light beam from one side of the garage opening to the other. If the sensors are not working properly then the garage door opener will NOT close from a remote control.

Garage Door Co Repair Pros has received the following information from Clopay regarding the model 32A masonite (wood) garage door product. Below is quoted from the Clopay Marketing Bulletin.

In an effort to support newer mobile devices and improve the user experience we have updated our website www.gdcorp.com to HTML5 / CSS3 with WCAG 2.0 standards. We have validated our pages against the latest standards as HTML5 is still evolving. Many of our detail pages were previously reformatted for mobile phones.