Editorial policy
How The Overhead Bench is written and checked, what it will not publish, and how corrections and advertising are handled.
The Overhead Bench publishes one kind of page: a work order that answers a single question about a sectional garage door or the operator that moves it. Everything on the site is written by the bench and checked against sources that a reader can obtain.
Sources
A work order names the sources it read. In this field the useful sources are the published standards for door and operator safety, the installation instructions supplied with a door or an operator, the service literature, and the manufacturer's published ratings for force, speed and duty cycle.
Where two sources disagree, the work order says so and explains which one governs in the United States. Where no source settles the question, the work order says that the point is unsettled.
What is never published
The bench does not publish instructions for winding, unwinding, releasing or removing a torsion spring, an extension spring, a cable, a drum or a bottom bracket. It does not publish a procedure that requires a tool a homeowner cannot safely use.
It does not publish a price as a fact unless a named source published it, does not publish a superlative about a product, does not publish a ranking of installers or brands, and does not publish sponsored text.
Advertising and commerce
The site carries no advertising and sells nothing. It does not accept payment for a mention, a link or a placement. Links leaving the site are placed because they answer a question the work order raises, and they are described in the sentence that carries them.
Corrections
A correction is made in the open. The sentence is rewritten, the work order is re-dated to the day it was checked, and the change is reflected in the feed and in the sitemap.