Garage Tip #3

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How to Choose a Beautiful Garage Door: Incorporate Style

The right garage door can really pull together the overall style of your home and give it harmonious character. It’s often a subtle choice between doors that add to your curb-appeal or don’t, so here’s some quick starter tips for finding the perfect fit.

Assess Your Home

Before choosing a style, it’s helpful to survey your home and make a short list of it’s overall characteristics. Do you have a Tudor with board-and-batten-look siding? A brick 70’s ranch? A gingerbread-decked Victorian? A stucco villa? A boxy 60’s contemporary? A tidy Colonial?

(Check out this link to help determine your house’s style: http://www.housepride.ca/housestyle/questionnaire.jsp)

Pay particular attention to windows and doors. Do you have square or arched openings? Are there any defining architectural details like muntin bars or leaded-glass decorative panes? Echoing the basic look of your windows and doors can really help your decision.

Basic Garage Door Types

Your neighborhood is probably full of traditional raised panel doors. They are typically made of steel or aluminum and can be insulated for better energy efficiency. This style of garage door blends well with many homes, though probably best with Colonial and Ranch styles. Possible customizations include windows in the top or second panel and a variety of colors.

Carriage house doors have become increasingly popular for many types of homes, though they work best in multiple garage door openings or with homes suggesting Mediterranean, Cottage, Victorian or Tudor styles. Carriage house doors can be made of wood or steel and have either a stained wood or painted finish. Possible customizations are almost limitless, including a wide variety of windows and trim options.

Contemporary doors are the rarest type and work best with custom homes built in an avant-garde or very clean-lined “modern” style. They are often made of glass and aluminum. There are not many customizations available for these types of doors since they tend to be a customization by their very nature.

Whatever you choose, we’ll be happy to give you a written estimate for the next step in acquiring your new door!

About the Author: Lauren Turner is a former construction contractor turned wife and mother of two (so far). Her daily collection of duties and pleasures range from diaper duty to researching experimental concrete surfaces and everything in between. She is delighted to discover there is a place for her blogging skills and hopes her own garage benefits from all she learns.

About Academy Overhead Door: We specialize in complete residential overhead door repair that Colorado Springs residents cant trust. We also offer opener repair on all major brands and models. Our trained technicians have experience and the skill to install/repair your complete overhead garage doors. Academy Overhead Door: providing fast overhead door repair and instillation today!
Call 719-481-2549
For more info visit our website: academyoverheaddoor.com

The Coin of Social Capital Is Community

Who We Are: Part IV

Community

Everyone likes using the word “community”. There isn’t a political race that goes by without someone – probably everyone - trotting out a well-worn catchphrase involving “community” designed to make you think they’ve got your back and you can trust them to get your mail next time you’re out of town.

But what does “community” really mean? Why is it valuable? As Keith Hopper puts it in his blog, “Defining Community”, these can be difficult questions to really answer. “Dictionary definitions, for all their permutations seem to miss a good deal of implied meaning in the word community.”

Americans have a unique perspective on communities. Our founding fathers worked hard to create a country where we take care of each other instead of giving total control of our society to the elite (“a government by the people for the people…”). This serious responsibility for our fellows creates something special from what would otherwise be a disinterested bunch of people living in close proximity. It creates communities. Strong communities in turn provide an asset called “social capital”.

When we look out for each other we create strong bonds of trust and reassurance. We know if we're in a bind, our neighbors will be there for us just as we were there for them. A healthy community takes on a life of it's own, providing freedom and security for it's members. That is social capital. You can’t spend it like dollars and cents, but ultimately it provides even better than a whole pile of loot in the bank.

The driver of social capital is community involvement, a fancy way of saying “giving your neighbors a hand when they need it”. At Academy Overhead Door, social capital is precious treasure. We love people and we love lending a hand wherever we can. It can be as simple as giving you a new garage opener with batteries already installed or as big a project as repairing the Palmer Lake Firehouse door free of charge.

We’re your neighbors and we want to be there for you just as others have been there for us. That is
community.

About the Author: Lauren Turner is a former construction contractor turned wife and mother of two (so far). Her daily collection of duties and pleasures range from diaper duty to researching experimental concrete surfaces and everything in between. She is delighted to discover there is a place for her blogging skills and hopes her own garage benefits from all she learns.

About Academy Overhead Door: We specialize in complete residential overhead door repair that Colorado Springs residents cant trust. We also offer opener repair on all major brands and models. Our trained technicians have experience and the skill to install/repair your complete overhead garage doors. Academy Overhead Door: providing fast overhead door repair and instillation today!
Call 719-481-2549
For more info visit our website: academyoverheaddoor.com

Excellence: We Are Not Interested In Just Being Good

Who We Are: Part III

Excellence

The word “excellence” is used in marketing so often today that we often glance over the word without considering it’s meaning. In our series about Academy Overhead Door’s core principles, we want to address the concept of excellence and what it means to us.

In his first team meeting as head coach for the Green Bay Packers in 1959, Vince Lombardi announced to his players what he expected of them.

“Gentlemen,” he said, “we are going to relentlessly chase perfection, knowing full well we will not catch it, because nothing is perfect. But we are going to relentlessly chase it, because in the process we will catch excellence. I am not remotely interested in just being good.”

Understandably, Vince Lombardi became one of the most successful coaches in American football.

Building on our concept of Integrity covered here, we want to relentlessly chase perfection both in our work and in our relationships with our customers and community. Excellence can be gained if we are not remotely interested in just being “good enough” but practice exceeding your expectations of us in everything we do.

In an interesting paper about excellence in business, consultant Murali Chemuturi wrote, “Excellence is a continuously moving target that can be reached through actions of integrity, being front runner in terms of products/services provided that are reliable and safe for the intended users, meeting all obligations and continuously learning and improving in all spheres to meet the moving target.”

(http://www.chemuturi.com/Pursuit%20Excellence%20in%20Organizations.pdf)

Excellence is a moving target because whenever a quality standard is achieved, there is always room for improvement. Excelling at anything requires diligence and practice. It means carefully correcting any errors and striving to always give you better than what used to be our best. Excellence is found in actions, not empty words. By making excellence one of our core principles, we dedicate ourselves to the pursuit of perfection in the hopes that in the process, we will catch excellence.

About the Author: Lauren Turner is a former construction contractor turned wife and mother of two (so far). Her daily collection of duties and pleasures range from diaper duty to researching experimental concrete surfaces and everything in between. She is delighted to discover there is a place for her blogging skills and hopes her own garage benefits from all she learns.

About Academy Overhead Door:

We specialize in complete residential overhead door repair Colorado Springs residents can trust. We also offer opener repair on all major brands and models. Our trained technicians have experience and the skill to install/repair your complete overhead garage doors Colorado Springs. Academy Overhead Door providing fast overhead door repair and installation today. Call 719-481-2549

For more info visit our website: academyoverheaddoor.com

Liftmaster ® - The Next Generation

Liftmaster now has a brand new technology, My Q is the latest and greatest in garage door openers. It gives you the ability to open or close your garage door opener from anywhere in the world. All from your smart phone or computer. No more guesswork on did you remember to close it. No more giving out a code access to your opener. Someone needs in? You now have the control. This new technology comes in chain or belt drive and also automatically comes with battery backup. You will not regret the decision in purchasing this unit.

Visit our website www.academyoverheaddoor.com