Professional Insider Tips for Garage Door Installation

You may have installed doors in your house, but a garage door installation is different. It is a task for professionals. Whether you have automatic door or manual, you need to know some basics before proceeding. Professionals understand that garage door installation is a dangerous task. Here are a few tips from the professionals if you wish to undertake minor installation and repair yourself.

1. Knowledge

Are you totally familiar with the type of garage door you are installing/repairing? If not, you should read all about the door, instruction manual and other relative information. Inspect every detail about the garage doors. For example, torsion springs, openers, metal frames, metal tracks, safety mechanisms, and electrical fittings. Know your house's parking requirements and choose a garage door accordingly. Inquire about chain type, belt type or screw type garage doors.

If you are still not able to grasp what these things are, it is better to get rid of the tools and call a professionals. Industry people know how to successfully install and repair the garage doors. They have dealt with these doors hundreds of times and don't mess around with tools/equipments.

2. Safety

Deciding to install or repair a garage door can be dangerous for an inexperienced person. Know the safety precautions before proceeding. Some parts of the garage doors can be outright dangerous. For example, torsion springs can be lethal and cause severe injury if wrongly operated. Moreover, many garage door openers have electrical systems that can cause severe shock. Do not stand on high stairs during repair. Metal tracks should be cleaned with utmost care and protruding metal fragments can cause injury. Also, restraint cables and extension springs can accidently open up and cause injury during garage door repair. Such tasks require professional care and must be addressed accordingly.

3. Tools

Garage doors can be complex and contain intricate parts. As such, they require a fully fledged tool kit in order to be installed or repaired. Some of the tools you may require include:

• ·         Carpenter's level

• ·         Electrical Drill plus Drill bits

• ·         Hacksaw

• ·         Claw hammer

• ·         Screwdrivers of various sizes

• ·         Small Ladder

• ·         Wrench and Sockets

• ·         Pliers

• ·         Standard tape measure

Besides these tools, garage door installation may require model specific tools. These specialized tools are available with professionals. Such a project is more suited to individuals having complete mechanical knowledge of the garage doors industry. It is highly recommended that you consult with professionals for garage door installation.

Maintaining the garage door openers

A garage door opener is a motorised or electronic device that opens and closes the garage door. They are controlled by the switches on the wall and remote controller. With the time its model and functioning has been improved. A garage door is the largest moving thing in a home and it is maintained means opens and closes by the opener, so the opener’s maintenance is required likewise the garage door repairs.

It has been noticed that their average age is about 12 years but a regular maintenance can increase their age for more. Here are some steps or hints involved are given to maintain them…….

• The maintenance should be done once in a month. The owner’s manual should be reviewed to get more about the garage door parts.
• Look at the garage door parts like springs, cables, rollers, pulleys etc. and their working should also be visualised and compared.
• As it is an electronic devise, so before making any change in the garage door opener, make sure it is plugged off.
• Make sure that your garage door opener has revising feature that means if there is anything in the way downwards of a door than it must reverse its motion or movement. If it never does the same than it should be replaced or repaired.
• Before replacing the garage door opener make sure that the sensors face each other across the garage door. It could be the reason for not reversing because due to this the beams cannot keep the needed alignment.
• Test the force setting of your garage door opener by holding up the bottom of the door as it closes. If the door does not reverse readily, the force is excessive and needs adjusting. Your garage door opener owner’s manual will explain how to adjust the force sensitivity. A qualified individual should adjust it. To avoid entrapment, be sure to perform the 1 inch reversing test after any repairs or adjustments are made to the garage door opener.
• You should clean and lubricate the drive and track of garage door openers once or twice in a month. Instead of using Greece, you should use light penetrating oil.
• If the door cannot be fully opened, can be fixed by adjusting the limit screw.
• Never let the children to play with the garage door remote controller. It can damage the functioning of garage door opener.

Why to repair Garage Door……………

Many of us do not know why the garage door repair is important and how to repair it. We just installed it and then forget about its maintenance and repair. Garage door repair is very important in safety concerns. They are like front doors and an unrepaired door can call the burglars to come in your house and can cause many other accidents. Garage doors also help to keep your things safe.

To repair the garage door here are some tops given. Firstly the repairing does not mean that you have to do it every year but maintenance is required and compulsory too. To get information to repair electronic parts the manual should be read. In any confusion of getting the particular part to be repaired, a professional should be called because a smaller mistake can damage a lot. 

Now it is fully known how and why to a garage door repair, so do not make you lazy in repairing it as soon as possible while needed.