When you own a home there are so many things to keep track of. From making sure that all of the things for your home are updated and replaced, like roofs and hot water heaters, to making sure that you are doing all the timely maintenance on your house, like switching out your air filters and making sure the wood on our deck is sealed every so often. We here at Hung Right Doors recommend that you add yearly garage door maintenance onto your checklist! It will help to keep your door and opener running smoothly, so that you only have to think about it once a year.
Yearly maintenance on your garage door and opener is important so that you have a higher chance of catching any upcoming problems before they have a big effect. For instance, if the gear system in your opener is starting to wear down, it’s better to replace it before the gears are totally stripped, instead discovering that they are when you are trying to leave for a friend’s birthday party you are already late to. When you have a knowledgeable technician looking over your door often times, they will be able to forsee things that may need to be addressed right away, or can wait awhile. To use the gear system example again, they can check it over and see that whereas the gears are somewhat ground down, you may have another years use left on them and they can make a note of that for the next years appointment.
Yearly maintenance also keeps your door well balanced. They can make sure that your springs are correctly calibrated, potentially adding years of use for both the springs and the garage door opener. If the springs are not carrying enough of the garage doors weight because they have settled from the last adjustment, it can put undue strain on your garage door opener, this will lead to the motor getting burnt out in the future.
Getting your door maintained can also effect the entire garage as a whole. Our technicians inspect every piece of your garage door system including weather stripping and the bottom seal. If the weather stripping or bottom seal is damaged if can lead to water seeping into the garage, or can mean that rodents have an easier time of getting in. Rodents especially can be a big problem and one that is potentially difficult to eradicate. We all know the issues that a rat can cause to our belongings and even our cars themselves!
Garage doors and openers have so many parts to them! Our technicians are so good at checking over every part and knowing how it should look, sound and feel. This makes them uniquely equipped to check over a garage door and opener to see if there are any upcoming issues that need to be addressed, and to ensure that the door can run as well as it can according to the door and openers current condition. Give us a call today at (360)753-2222 to schedule a maintenance service!