I recently bought a lift, I have 12' ceilings with 8' doors, but with a car on the lift, the door was not usuable. So I needed to convert the door to high lift!
Requires new springs, drums, cables and an angled vertical track extension. I just wanted to pay someone to do it since I've never messed with a garage door before, I know what I'm like, I'll spend hours researching and looking up stuff, what's needed, reading tutorials...I just wanted to pay someone for once...
I had called 2 different places, first place asked me to give him measurements, he called back the next day with a price, I said when can you do it, he said he'd get back to me and never called back. I called again a week later later and he said "oh yeah..I'm still waiting, umm... on parts...I'll call you when they come in". Never called after another week went by. I called another place, bigger place, they have a showroom, several crews, a guy came out, with his clipboard in hand, took a bunch of measurements, said he had to go back to the office to look up the prices on the springs and drums I need he'll call me the next day. Didn't call, I wait a couple more days, call their office, secretary says she'll make sure he calls me the next morning, never called after another 2 weeks went by.
So, I did what I wanted to pay another to do, started researching what's required, how to do it, I came across this place, DDM Garage Doors . This place has super detailed tutorials, not just on high lift conversion, but just everything and anything related to garage doors. Really nice web page for entering your current setup by door weight or current spring, all your current measurements, and he'll put a kit together for you and UPS out.
So I pulled the trigger on that, submitted their webform, they emailed within an hour after a human tech actually goes over the measurements you submitted, and with the final shipped price. I called and had a few pointed questions, which they promptly knew the exact answers for. They had it in UPS's hands the same day, since their in Chicago and I'm in Michigan, it's 1 day shipping, I had it in my hands the next day. The owner even emailed the answer to one last question I emailed in after I paid, and then gives his cell number as says to call him if you have any issues during installation.
Installed it yesterday with the aide of his super detailed tutorials from assembling the vertial extensions, to how to wind springs to general door adjustment tips... and didn't have so much as any little hitch.
Just can't say enough good about DDM, for a small local West Chicago business, they've gone out of their way to help people near and far. And their website is probably one of the best website's I've come across in a long while, not just on how it's laid out and how the information is presented, but the quality of the content of the information is outstanding.
As a bonus, I saved a few hundred $$$ by doing it myself. Good business needs to be praised these days!! Thank you DDM Garage Doors! If you need any garage door parts and want to know anything about how garage doors work, this is the place to go.
Now I can actually use the bay underneath the lift for parking my little tractor and snowmobile , or another car, when I'm not wrenching!! No more shuffling crap around to get one thing out.
Requires new springs, drums, cables and an angled vertical track extension. I just wanted to pay someone to do it since I've never messed with a garage door before, I know what I'm like, I'll spend hours researching and looking up stuff, what's needed, reading tutorials...I just wanted to pay someone for once...
I had called 2 different places, first place asked me to give him measurements, he called back the next day with a price, I said when can you do it, he said he'd get back to me and never called back. I called again a week later later and he said "oh yeah..I'm still waiting, umm... on parts...I'll call you when they come in". Never called after another week went by. I called another place, bigger place, they have a showroom, several crews, a guy came out, with his clipboard in hand, took a bunch of measurements, said he had to go back to the office to look up the prices on the springs and drums I need he'll call me the next day. Didn't call, I wait a couple more days, call their office, secretary says she'll make sure he calls me the next morning, never called after another 2 weeks went by.
So, I did what I wanted to pay another to do, started researching what's required, how to do it, I came across this place, DDM Garage Doors . This place has super detailed tutorials, not just on high lift conversion, but just everything and anything related to garage doors. Really nice web page for entering your current setup by door weight or current spring, all your current measurements, and he'll put a kit together for you and UPS out.
So I pulled the trigger on that, submitted their webform, they emailed within an hour after a human tech actually goes over the measurements you submitted, and with the final shipped price. I called and had a few pointed questions, which they promptly knew the exact answers for. They had it in UPS's hands the same day, since their in Chicago and I'm in Michigan, it's 1 day shipping, I had it in my hands the next day. The owner even emailed the answer to one last question I emailed in after I paid, and then gives his cell number as says to call him if you have any issues during installation.
Installed it yesterday with the aide of his super detailed tutorials from assembling the vertial extensions, to how to wind springs to general door adjustment tips... and didn't have so much as any little hitch.
Just can't say enough good about DDM, for a small local West Chicago business, they've gone out of their way to help people near and far. And their website is probably one of the best website's I've come across in a long while, not just on how it's laid out and how the information is presented, but the quality of the content of the information is outstanding.
As a bonus, I saved a few hundred $$$ by doing it myself. Good business needs to be praised these days!! Thank you DDM Garage Doors! If you need any garage door parts and want to know anything about how garage doors work, this is the place to go.
Now I can actually use the bay underneath the lift for parking my little tractor and snowmobile , or another car, when I'm not wrenching!! No more shuffling crap around to get one thing out.
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