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Practical Garage Door Maintenance Advice

01/12/2014 Back To Blog

With proper garage door maintenance, you will ensure that the door works effectively and safely at all times. It will have a long useful life as well. The question is how to ensure that you will provide the most adequate and effective maintenance. Use a set of important tips to help you with this.

Individual Maintenance Tasks for Homeowners

Inspection is the first and perhaps the most important maintenance task that you need to perform. Every three to four months, you should inspect the entire door and all the mechanisms of the garage door opener system. Check the door for cracks, chips and dents. Inspect the opener's moving parts including the spring, the cables, the rollers, the hinges and the bearing plates. Watch out for signs of wear and tear, deformities and loosening. If any of these are present, you should call the garage door repair Moss Beach pros right away.

Garage door lubrication maintenance is the other major task which you need to perform. All moving parts of the door require lubrication every six months. The list includes hinges, spring and rollers, to name the main ones. You should use a lubricant recommended by the manufacturer of the door. You should follow the owner's manual when applying it. You should be carefully not to add too much as this can cause some door operation issues.

While metal garage doors do not require any additional maintenance, their counterparts made from wood do. Their nuts and bolts should be inspected regularly. If they are loose, they should be tightened. If they have rusted, they have to be replaced. Similarly, the door will require repainting preferably annually. This is because the paint works to protect wood from rainwater damage and from other adverse environmental effects.

Professional Maintenance Tasks

The garage door springs should be inspected for balance, strength and performance by the maintenance and repair professionals. Only an expert can run the appropriate tests. More importantly, they can balance the spring system and repair or replace the spring right away.

The lubrication of the rail on the motor has to be done by the garage door repair pros. This is because it is quite challenging for non-pros to select the right grease for the purpose and to perform the task correctly. You wouldn't want to risk the safety of your family and the performance of the door just because you are a do-it-yourself enthusiast.

Finally, you should also leave the motor winter care to the electric garage door service repair specialists. If you contact them in the fall, they will help to ensure trouble-free operation.

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