Professional Garage Door Maintenance
Your garage door is the largest moving wall in your home. Why wait until you need a repair before receiving regular maintenance. Get your garage door inspected today to keep your garage door working smoothly!
Maintenance & Inspections
Garage Door Maintenance Tips
For best results, perform the following garage door maintenance tips monthly. Safety tip: Never remove, adjust, or loosen the screws on the bottom brackets of the door. These brackets are connected to the spring by the lift cable and are under extreme tension.
1. Check Garage Door Opener
2. Visual Inspection
- Stand inside the garage with the garage door closed.
- Look over the garage door springs, cables, rollers, pulleys and mounting hardware, such as hinges, for signs of wear or damage.
- Inspect for cable wear or fraying. Is the mounting hardware becoming loose?
- If something doesn’t look quite right–or doesn’t sound quite right–it could be the symptom of a more serious issue.
3. Door Balance Test
- If the garage door is equipped with an automatic garage door opener system: close the door and disconnect the automatic garage door opener by pulling the red emergency release cord.
- Once you are able to lift the door manually: Lift the door half way (two panels above the header and two panels below the header). It should lift smoothly with little resistance.
- Once you have the door half way open release your hands. The garage door should not move and remain in that position. If it rolls down, the garage door torsion system may be out of balance and should be serviced by a trained service technician.
- If it is difficult to open or does not remain open, the door may be out of balance and should be serviced by a trained service technician.
4. Reverse Safety Test
- With the door fully open, push your garage door opener’s transmitter (remote control) or wall button to close the door. Wave a long object, such as a broomstick, in front of one of the door’s photo eyes so it “breaks the beam.” The door should reverse.
- If it does not reverse, pull the broomstick out of the path of the closing door.
- Close the door. With the door in the closed position, clean the photo eyes with a soft, dry cloth, wipe any cobwebs away from the sensors and make sure no debris or grass clippings are hanging from the sensors.
- Gently adjust the photo eyes by hand if they appear to be out of alignment.
- Open the door and repeat the reversal test.
- If the door does not reverse, the door should be serviced by a trained service technician.
5. Lubricate Moving Parts of Garage Door: Springs and Hinges
These simple garage door maintenance tips can help to prevent major damage that leads to costly repairs. If you are unsure or prefer to have a professional handle it, don’t hesitate to give us a call for an annual inspection and preventative maintenance.
