You are hereHome » Garage Doors » Residential DoorsSkip to main content Our Newest Addition to the AccentsWoodtones Family, View The Driftwood Woodtone View the full line of C.H.I. Overhead Doors products. Be inspired to make a change with C.H.I. garage doors. Find the best garage door to fit your needs. Select and compare features you want in a new garage door. Create a garage door in the style you've always wanted. Explore commonly asked questions about garage doors.C.H.I. Overhead Doors Reviews Filter Filter Employee Reviews Popular Rating Date Jul 1, 2015 I have been working at C.H.I. Overhead Doors full-time (More than 3 years) Pros If you are willing to show up and work you will always have a job and they treat you fairly well. Cons Never know how long you work on a given Friday. Production is based on orders. Jan 20, 2016 I have been working at C.H.I. Overhead Doors full-time (More than 8 years) Pros Pay, benefits, and hours. People in my small department are great Cons Too many accidents due to management being money hungry, now we have to watch our backs because OSHA is on sight, unsure of longevity employment.

Advice to Management Stop stepping over the employees just to get ahead, and get a conscience please before everything is taken away from all us and the doors shut. Jan 22, 2015 I worked at C.H.I. Overhead Doors full-time (More than 3 years) Pros This company cares about their employees and will give raises accordingly. They appreciate hard work. Also if you ever need to lose weight, work in the Plant for a couple months and you will lose quite a bit of weight. You get a paid week for holiday shutdown after your first calender year. You also get an additional floating paid vacation after your 3rd calender year. You have 2 "Free Days" every six months. Free days are awarded by perfect attendance and not having an accident on the job. Excellent insurance benefits ( I miss those the most ) Cons Since the doors are "Made to Order", you never know when you are getting off work when you Walk in on Monday, and when you walk in on Friday. The bosses do, however, let you know when they know how late you are staying at work, and when you are leaving on Friday.

It is difficult to make plans Friday afternoon if you don't know if you are getting off at 1 p.m. or 5 p.m.If you are looking to move up in this company, your best bet might be Foreman of 2nd shift. But that is earned by working there a LONG time and acquiring leadership skills that the current supervisors can see that you've done.Realistically, to move up in this company, you either have to be Amish, have an Amish last name, or have a college degree with many credentials. Advice to Management The management system at C.H.I. overall is very good. If there is a problem, it will be resolved. The only issue is that there are "Select" Amish men that can just about get away with anything. This has to do with the fact that they know the bosses personally or that they are family with the bosses. This is very unprofessional and it needs to stop. The community relies on everyone sharing – Add Anonymous Review Dec 24, 2014 Pros You are part of the family and people here accept you. Many benefits good work environment Cons Arthur IL is out in the country Advice to Management Great Job

For more information, contact:Image 1 of 4 Is R-8.6 per inch even possible? The advertised R-value for Clopay’s model 9200 garage door strains credulity. If you’re shopping for a garage door, the door’s energy performance may not matter — especially if you don’t heat your garage. However, there are a few reasons why you might be looking for a well-insulated, draft-free garage door:second hand stable doors for sale cape town So, how do you tell a high-performance garage door from a lemon?garage door parts roswell “We sell high doors!”bi folding doors 27 inch Many garage-door manufacturers advertise the R-values of their doors: Should I Insulate My Garage Door?

Garage Door Openers Are Always On How to Heat a Garage A Stupid — and Illegal — Way to Air Condition Your Garage Unfortunately, these advertised R-values are almost meaningless. Advertised R-values are inaccurate, irrelevant — or both To determine the thermal performance of a garage door, you need to know two things: The R-values that are trumpeted by garage-door manufacturers are measured at the center of one of the door panels. No manufacturer, as far as I can determine, reports the R-value of the entire door assembly (including the panel edges, the seams between panels, and the perimeter of the door) in their promotional materials. Moreover, manufacturers’ reported R-values tell us nothing about air leakage. Most garage-door manufacturers are reluctant to share actual laboratory reports showing the results of R-value testing. When I asked Mike Willstead, a technical representative for Raynor, if I could see a copy of Raynor’s test results, he suggested I send him an e-mail.

He later e-mailed his response: “I apologize if I misled you. I was informed that this is proprietary information that will not be disclosed.” The window industry does a much better job More than a decade ago, responsible window manufacturers realized that the reputation of their industry was being damaged by misleading R-value and U-factor claims. (U-factor is the inverse of R-value; in other words, U=1/R and R=1/U). To address these problems, industry leaders developed a method for testing and reporting whole-window U-factors. The U-factor reported on an NFRC label accurately describes the U-factor of the entire window, including the sash frame and the window frame — not just the center-of-glass U-factor. When it comes to accurate reporting of U-factors or R-values, however, the garage door industry is years behind the window industry. There’s nothing to prevent garage-door manufacturers from using the NFRC testing and labeling protocol — a protocol that yields a more honest and useful result than the center-of-panel numbers trumpeted by garage-door marketers.

Alternatively, garage-door manufacturers could use the voluntary consensus standard (ANSIAmerican National Standards Institute. National nonprofit membership organization that coordinates development of national consensus standards. Accreditation by ANSI signifies that the procedures used meet the Institute’s essential requirements for openness, balance, consensus, and due process. /DASMA 105) for reporting whole-door U-factors adopted by the Door and Access System Manufacturers Association (DASMA). A technical data sheet (DASMA TDS #163) describes this testing protocol, dubbed the “tested installed door” protocol by DASMA. “For marketing purposes, the garage door people get a measurement on the center of panel,” said David Yarbrough, a research engineer and insulation expert at R&D Services in Cookeville, Tennessee. “The overall R-value of the entire door might be quite a bit less — in extreme cases, it may be half — of the R-value of the center of the panel.

Not everyone approves of this kind of marketing. It’s been a hot debate in recent years.” In fact, the percentage turns out to be much less than half. Actual R-values are one-third the advertised values Although it’s hard to obtain actual test results that report the whole-door U-factors of “tested installed doors,” I managed to obtain one report on a garage door from Clopay, and another on a garage door from Overhead Door. Clopay provided test results for their model 3720 five-panel garage door. According to Mischel Schonberg, Clopay’s public relations manager, the door is insulated with 2 inches of polyurethane foam. Schonberg wrote, “This model is the commercial version of our residential model 9200 and has the same construction.” While Clopay advertises that the 9200 door is R-17.2 — presumably, a claim based on a center-of-panel measurement — the test report for the installed door shows R-6.14. While Overhead Door advertises that their model 494/495 Thermacore door has an R-value of 17.5 — a claim that, like competitors’ claims, is presumably based on a center-of-panel measurement — the test report for the installed door shows a U-factor of 0.16, equivalent to R-6.25.

Based on the only two test reports that I was able to track down, it seems logical to conclude that the R-value of a garage door is about one-third of the R-value claimed in a manufacturer’s brochure. All over the map Mike Thoman, the director of thermal testing and simulation at Architectural Testing Incorporated, a Pennsylvania laboratory, has tested many garage doors. “The assembly R-values are not going to be nearly as good as the R-value of the material would indicate,” Thoman told me recently. “When you compare the assembly R-value to the material R-value, the percentages are all over the map. The percentage is a function of how the joints in the panels are made, and whether any attempt was made to provide for thermal breaks at panel edges — a lot of different things. Some products have a lot of insulation in the panel but have everything else wrong. We’ve also seen doors that do everything right. There’s really a wide, wide range.” Are the reported R-values even accurate?

There’s another potential problem with the R-values reported by garage-door manufacturers: even if one accepts the fact that the advertised R-values represent center-of-panel values rather than whole-door values, the numbers are still higher than most insulation experts believe are possible. Several manufacturers report that their polyurethane-insulated door panels have R-values between R-8.6 and R-9.0 per inch — values that are highly unlikely if not technically impossible, even for the center of a door panel. “The R-value of polyurethane decreases with age,” said Yarbrough. “When it is absolutely fresh you might get R-7.5 per inch, but a realistic aged R-value would be lower — perhaps about R-6.5 per inch would be on the high end. I’m not sure I can explain these reported test results. I have seen labs make mistakes before. I think it’s an error.” One garage-door distributor who doubts the accuracy of manufacturer’s R-value claims is Bill Feder, the president of Door Services Incorporated of Portland, Maine.

On his own initiative, Feder sent a garage-door panel (Overhead Door model 194) to Yarbrough’s lab, R&D Services. The ASTMAmerican Society for Testing and Materials. Not-for-profit international standards organization that provides a forum for the development and publication of voluntary technical standards for materials, products, systems, and services. Originally the American Society for Testing and Materials. C518 test conducted by Yarbrough came up with a value of only R-7.83 for the 1 3/8-inch-thick panel. Yet Overhead Door advertises that the door is R-12.76 — or R-9.28 per inch. “If anyone calls me about a door, I tell them about my R-value challenge,” Feder told me. “I will give anyone a check for $250 if they can bring in a document that shows that a 1 3/8-inch-thick garage door has an R-value of 12. They can’t do it.” Unfortunately, Feder’s admirable challenge has not yet shamed the garage-door industry into correcting the numerous exaggerations in their product specifications.

What about air leakage? If the day ever comes when garage-door manufacturers follow the path blazed by their more honest brothers and sisters in the window industry — that is, if they ever decide to report whole-door U-factors or whole-door R-values — an important piece of the door-rating puzzle will still be missing. The reason: when it comes to the thermal performance of garage doors, air leakage matters much more than R-value. “Garage doors are so leaky that they are difficult to test,” Thoman said. “Their leaks exceed the capabilities of the available testing apparatus.” When he needed to buy a garage door for his own house, Thoman ignored advertised R-values. “I find it almost offensive that garage-door manufacturers even publish the R-value of the insulation material,” Thoman told me. “I hate it when I see that, because it’s not a representation of the door’s performance. Air leakage is a much more important issue than the R-value of the door.”