For safety and convenience, inspect and maintain your garage door once a year.
Your overhead garage door, more than any other portion of your house, is subjected to the most wear and strain. The average garage door is opened and closed over a thousand times each year. It provides convenience and security when kept in good operating order. A neglected door, on the other hand, may become as loud as a locomotive while also posing a substantial safety danger to your family, particularly your children. In this post, we’ll walk you through the procedures of doing an annual inspection and maintenance on your automated overhead door to ensure that it operates reliably, quietly, and safely. Many of these suggestions also apply to garage doors without an automated opener.
Get your Garage Door Ready for Spring
The easy garage door maintenance methods pictured below require no special expertise and take less than 10 minutes to complete. Home stores and garage door dealers provide all of the materials you’ll need. Torsion springs, which mount on the header above the door (opening photo), or extension springs, which float over the upper roller track, are used on the great majority of garage doors. Except for the containment cable installation illustrated in Photographs 10 and 11, all of the stages in the following photos are applicable to both kinds. Learn about a few more sophisticated garage door spring repair tips if you’re having any problems.
- Tighten the nuts and bolts
- Examine the rollers for signs of wear and tear Photo 3: Examine the lift cable for signs of wear and tear
- Make sure the chain or screw is lubricated.
- lubricate the springs
- Replace the weather seal (photo 6).
- Put your door to the test
- Put the auto reverse feature to the test.
- Install the lift handles
- Bolt the cable to the bracket in photo
- feed the cable through the spring