Garage Door Battery Backup

Ron Graham • Apr 08, 2019

At Graham Garage Doors, customer safety comes first. One of our missions as a company is to educate you about best safety practices. To do so, we have always included Garage Door safety tips on our website. In addition, the new Garage Door Safety Bill passed in California and Graham Garage Doors was ahead of this trend by three years. We decided three years prior that a battery backup system was our new minimum requirement for installations and replacements.

What is a battery backup? During a power outage, a battery backup allows your garage door opener to keep working. This is especially important when a wildfire is blazing. During the infamous California wildfires, many people were getting trapped in their garages. Several even died. California state Senator Bill Dodd was among those unable to get out, since he could not manually open his heavy wooden garage door. Drawing on his personal experience, Senator Dodd introduced a bill to make battery backups mandatory in the state of California. On August 16, 2018 the Garage Door Safety Bill passed with wide bipartisan support. As Cheryl Diehm, a Santa Rosa resident who testified before lawmakers, put it, "Make no mistake - this legislation will help save lives."

Thunderstorms and power outages can always hit. If you are interested in finding out more about battery backup systems, simply give us a call and we will explain it all.

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