Can't I go to the Home Improvement store
and buy my own garage door and install
it myself this is the Check A Pro radio
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here's your host the man with a hard hat
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Checker Pro radio we get questions all
the time from listeners and this one
keeps coming in over and over again
and it's about garage doors I've asked a
garage door expert Adam Greer from Easy
Lift garage doors to join me in helping
answer this question hi Adam how are you
I'm doing great Joe thanks for having me
on once again it's always a pleasure
yeah and thank you the question is can I
go to the big box stores and buy my own
garage door instead of hiring a company
uh you know it's a it's a touchy
question certainly can they all sell
them is it worth it is the bigger
question you know because you're going
to pay more than you would actually pay
buying from a professional and here's
the situation if you go buy a Weber
grill from Home Depot it's not the same
as buying a Weber grill from Weber
everybody makes a box store version of
their product and it sells it still a
that's the big question and the answer
from a professional would be no I it's
it's not worth your money and by the
time you add labor and everything you
spent more than you would spend
typically by hiring just a professional
home start so the quality of the door
isn't better and the price is not better
plus the homeowner would have to put the
door in themselves or hire someone to do
it correct and truthfully the quality
typically is is less you know it's the I
don't want to use brand names but they
all sell the brand name but even if you
went to that manufacturer in Houston
you'll get that brand name but a better
version of the brand than what they're
giving to the box stores and something
as a professional home service provider
you don't want to hear from the
homeowner I've bought this door at The
Big Box store but I want you the home
service provider to install it you can't
back that door up can you correct in
fact we get those calls all at the work
all we're going to stand behind is our
labor whatever that package has or
missing or whatever damage it's on you
and it they're never right there half
time they're missing parts it's it's
ridiculous and then you would have to
use parts from your truck and that's not
the full package and it's going to cost
a homeowner more and in the end when
that door fails and they call you you're
gonna shrug your shoulders and say ain't
our door exactly and we stress that with
them uh we will not take responsibility
I've had doors get dropped off by The
Big Box store that are literally they
must have drove a forklift work through
it and dropped it off at their porch and
you open up and go look here you go
there's what you gotta go fight them and
it's not easy at that point as I say
hire a professional have them bring the
product to the home and that Home
Service professional is of course
responsible for it and they will back it
up Adam thank you so much for joining me
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