Archive: November 2024
Garage Door Sensor Cleaning Tips to Ensure Smooth Operation
If your garage door won’t open or close properly, a common culprit might be the photo eye sensors. These sensors, positioned at the bottom of your garage door tracks, emit invisible beams that signal the door to halt or reverse if an object interrupts the
Garage Door Track Lubrication: Yes or No?
About to do your seasonal garage door maintenance? Nice. You know us – DIY garage door maintenance is never a bad idea (as long as you don’t touch the springs!); it saves you repair and replacement costs for your garage door, lengthens its life, and
Lubricants for Garage Door Parts: Everything You Need to Know
Your garage door is one of the most important moving parts of your home. It gets a lot of use, so it’s important to keep it lubricated to prevent wear and tear. To keep your garage door operating smoothly, you should apply a light coating
4 Common Reasons Your Garage Door May Break Down
Most of the time, your garage door works beautifully — you don’t even have to think about it. And then suddenly it doesn’t. Your day comes crashing to a screeching halt. You find yourself calling an Uber because you can’t get out of the garage
Garage Door Safety Features Checklist
Your garage door is easily the biggest appliance in your home. It’s huge, weighs hundreds of pounds, moves, and hangs over your head on the ceiling. Can you imagine if it fell? Or if it closed while your kid was doing chalk drawings on the
SACS’ How-it-Works Tutorial on Overhead Garage Doors
Unless you DIY your seasonal garage door maintenance, you might not be really familiar with the garage door parts that have to cooperate for your garage door to operate properly. Let’s be honest – many of us press that garage door opener remote a few
All About Garage Door Springs: Torsion vs Extension
Believe it or not, your automatic garage door opener – the thing with the motor that runs the belts, tracks and trolley? – Yeah, it doesn’t actually work that hard. The garage door part that your door simply cannot function without is the springs. Whether
How to Choose the Right Torsion Spring to Fit Your Needs
Your garage door springs should survive 10,000-20,000 cycles before they wear down and break, but when a garage door is “on the fritz,” it’s usually a spring’s fault. Attempting to repair or replace garage door springs can be a dangerous job, and it’s usually not
Understanding Proper Lubrication of Garage Parts
Your garage door’s infrastructure has a lot of moving metal parts that work together with the garage door opener to lift and lower the door, probably thousands of times per year. And as we all know, metal moving parts need lubricated every so often; it
Is It a Problem If Your Garage Door is Loud?
Does your garage door keep the neighbors up at night? Yeah, that’s embarrassing. But it’s also annoying. A garage door should be a benefit of convenience, not a disruption of your peace and quiet. If your garage door is terribly loud, this is a sign