Why is the garage door spring so important? Well it does all the hard work of lifting the garage door. Adam Greer from EZ Lift Garage Doors & More explains in this podcast.
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Check A Pro Joe has assembled a team of
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host the man with a hard hat and tool
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belt check a pro Joe I see on my call
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screen a good friend of mine Adam Greer
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from Easy Lift garage doors he's
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actually my garage door guy he's a
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garage door expert he's been doing this
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for a very very long time I brought him
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on the program today to talk to all of
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us about your garage door and replacing
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the spring for your garage door Adam how
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are you
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I'm doing great Joe thanks for having me
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once again it's always a pleasure I
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appreciate you taking time out of your
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busy day to talk to me and my listeners
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so this question comes up a lot so I'm
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gonna pose this to you why do we need to
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replace the garage door spring is this
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something that's necessary or is the
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garage door guy just trying to sell us
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something we don't need
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huh that's a really good question and it
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does get asked pretty frequently
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um I guess with the story explaining
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what the spring does so the spring
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counterbalances the door so let's just
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take an average two-car garage door
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which is 16-7 it's just your No Frills
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25 gauge door
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weighs approximately you know 160 to 175
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pounds depending on the manufacturer
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type of thing and um and the confusion
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is that people use their hands and if
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they've had to disconnect their opener
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for a power outage or some other reason
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and they're able to open it by hand they
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think it it works magically
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um and then we get the phone call we can
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get our door open today and our car is
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stuck and uh and we got them we
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explained to him it's a broken spring
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and they well I I've used it without
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this you know I've without the opener
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before and and it's always worked I
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pulled that red string and it and it
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opens right but today you have a broken
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spring so the thing that makes the door
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work is actually broken
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um sometimes it's not broken it's just
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at the end of its life it's so weak that
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it just the opener still struggles to
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open that door because again openers
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aren't even designed to lift weight
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they're supposed to just guide a
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balanced door so you need that door
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balanced so it's a couple things I've
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had customers ask me just to can you
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just take that spring off and just make
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this door work you know without it and
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um but it's it's just important to
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understand
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that that spring is what makes 170
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pounds seemed to weigh nothing if that
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spring is broke you have to lift 170
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pounds and some guys will say well I can
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do 170 pounds in the gym but you have a
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16 foot wide seven foot tall barbell if
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you will that just doesn't live very
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easily so we had a customer just uh a
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week and a half or so ago who was trying
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to get us to can't you just make the
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door functional and then we can do the
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spring repair later he had a broken
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spring and it's we couldn't get another
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scan the only way to make it functional
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is we have to do the spring repair and
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uh he literally thought he was going to
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find someone else to make it work and uh
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let us walk away I don't know what he
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ended up having with that John but he
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just could not understand that that
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spring is what makes that door work and
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so that's it's a major safety issue the
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spring is broken you are somehow using
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that door still you're taking a chance
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I'm getting hurt destroying the door
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ruining the opener there's a lot of
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things can take place by operating the
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door because some people go up to the
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opener just crank the Open Force full
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blast so that it somehow grunts its way
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through but you're really asking for a
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world of hurt on that I totally agree
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with you I know something about garage
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doors I'm not the expert like you but
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it's simple everybody I'm a homeowner
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like you guys listening it's very simple
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you need to have a spring that is wound
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properly the door needs to be balanced
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without the spring you cannot get the
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garage door to open with or without the
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garage door operator or the garage door
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opener and Adam's right he knows this
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way more than I do when your spring does
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not work you cannot lift that door and
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the garage door opener don't even try to
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do that because you're going to damage
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that and now you're gonna have to get a
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new spring and a garage door opener so
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the best thing to do is when it breaks
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and here's a Telltale sign you can hear
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it sometimes it sounds like a little
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bomb going off if you hear a big boom in
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your garage take a look at the spring
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but if you can't get your garage door up
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it really could be the spring call a
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professional like Adam from Easy Lift
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garage doors here's his phone number 832
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to
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497-4260 again
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832-497-4260 you can go to his website
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easyohd.com all of this information the
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phone number and his website is listed
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here in the podcast in the description
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Adam thank you so much this has been
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awesome information I really appreciate
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it you're welcome thank you again for
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