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Monday 6 February 2012

Garage Door Openers Stop Working On Entire Missouri Block -

Garage Door Openers Stop Working On Entire Missouri Block - 




It’s a puzzling phenomenon: On one street in St. Charles County, garage door openers have stopped working.


The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports that no one knows what exactly is going on at Westhampton View Court. The garage door openers at all five homes on the court stopped working shortly after Christmas.


“It’s a weird, weird thing,” Joe Sullivan told the Post-Dispatch. “And the timing for it all to go haywire for everybody at the same time can’t be coincidence, right?”



Garage door companies say interference problems are common at individual homes — they blame what is known as “frequency pollution.” But experts say having the issue extend to multiple homes is just plain weird.


“There is so much radio frequency pollution now,” Butch Martin, owner of Martin Door Co., told the paper. “Everything is wireless, and the more wireless stuff we get, the bigger the problem is going to get.”


Read more - 
http://stlouis.cbslocal.com/2012/02/06/garage-door-openers-stop-working-on-entire-missouri-block/


1 comment:

  1. A good garage door opener does a lot more than just open and close the garage door. Garage door openers come with three different types of drive a chain, belt and screw.

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