I've lived in my current home for about a year. The relatively-antiquated (late 70's) garage door opens fine with either the car remotes or the wall switch, but in the last month or so has developed a problem in closing -- it only goes down about 1 feet when I use either the wall switch or car remote to close it. I have to pull it down about 1-2 feet and then the motor will close it the remainder of the way. We've been told by the local garage door company that the only fix for this is to replace the entire door. That sounds fishy to me, especially when teh cost of a new door and opener is about $1500. But I admit to knowing very little about door openers, and the prior owners of the home did not have any manuals on the opener. When our power was out recently, I had to use the manual disconnect to get the door open. It opened very easily by hand - in fact, almost too easily, I had to be careful or it would get to the top and then bounce back and forth -- and closed fairly easily by hand, although not as easily as it opened. Can anyone offer any thoughts? Any help will be greatly appreciated.

I am wanting to add a Game room on the the back of my garage. Currently we have a 24x24 two car on a slab which is unfinished. It has vinyl siding and asphalt shingles. I was wondering what the cost would be to build something myself very similar to this. I know that i could probably get away with a much lower ceiling but dont know where to start. This is the first time I have posted to this forum so if there is somewhere else that I should post please let me know. Thanks!