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How to operate simple maintenance in your garage door

Tue, 26 Jul 2022 20:44:44 GMT

How to operate simple maintenance in your garage door

Having a regular maintenance on your garage door, can save you hundreds of dollars over the years, by lubricating the tracks, the springs, the hinges and inspect the rollers and garage door bolts.

Basic tune up of a overhead garage door

The spring

A torsion spring is a single spring located just over the top of the garage door, it can be seen it when the door is closed. If you notice rust on the top spring on your garage door stray down with a garage door lubricant, avoid the bar itself. Using WD-40 is good to spray on nuts and bolts for rust prevention before putting a project together, but it's not ideal for lubricating garage door and opener parts.

Now that you are in a ladder, check any loose screw under the over head door opener bracket , tight those screws as you perform the maintenance.

The hinges

Garage door hinges allows the door to move smoothly up and down the track. Spray all the hingers around it with a garage door lubricant on the edges and the center edges.

The track

Over the time, dirt and debris builds up on the tracks, spray lubricant all around. Avoid any grease contact with the drum itself this will potentially looses the grip for the tension cables.

The chain

There are 2 types of chains; chain drive and belt drive. Chain drive garage door openers use a metal chain for operation as belt drive garage door openers are plastic and move the trolley, resulting in quieter operation. You don’t want to lubricate belt drive chains the lubrication applies for the chain drive.

Conclusion:

All American Doors can advice the homeowner for the proper service for their garage door. However, the torsion spring systems and cables on overhead doors have an incredible amount of tension on them. Any malfunctions can cause serious injury or possibly death, we suggest to leave this to a professional. We are a local company serving Miami, Broward and West Palm Beach area.

How to properly maintain your garage door

Tue, 26 Jul 2022 16:30:16 GMT

How to properly maintain your garage door

If you are a homeowner your garage door and door opener are used almost every day and regular maintenance is a good idea to keep them running properly by simply checking nuts, bolts, and screws at least twice per year. While you checking for this parts is a good idea to lubricate tracks and chains from the garage door opener, finally and not least check the sensors as they ofter get misalign if there are object on their way. We have some tips below that will get you started.

Starting the maintenance procedure:

Turning off the power for safety reasons before servicing the garage door is essential. Be sure to unplug the opener if the door opens while working, as it can cause a disaster.

It would help if you also unlocked the opener so that you can manually move the garage door up and down. This provides easy access to the lower rollers and allows the lubricant to spread as you slide the door along the track.

If you are out of reach from the owners manual, book a service visit from All American Doors technician, by doing so you are leaving the job to the experts, understanding and skill gained by experience in safety precautions and can perform effectively the maintenance and repair from start.

Know the Types of Rollers:

Garage door rollers allows the door to move smoothly up and down the truck. However, if you neglect to perform regular maintenance over the time the garage doors will be rough and noisy. Below are some types of rollers so you can identify the maintenance it needs to be done.

Plastic Rollers are very low quality, minimum performance and doesn’t last.

Metal Rollers are low quality, low performance and very loud

Nylon Rollers 11 Ball are good performance and last 10,000 cycles. (The operation of opening and closing of the garage door

Nylon Rollers 13 Ball (sealed) is better performance 25,000 cycles

Nylon Roller Z Bearing is the Best performance in the market now, more than 100,000 + cycles

Roller Control:

Before the maintenance is perform, inspect there are no trades of cracks, debris, deformations on the Roller control. Poor roller function may cause the opener parts to wear too soon and cause the garage door to pop out from the track. If you notice your garage door is making an unpleasant squeak, contact your garage door expert as soon as possible as this will requiere repair or potentially change the rollers.

Starting the maintenance for a garage door:

Before you start your garage door preventive maintenance it is essential turning off the power for safety reasons. Make sure to unplug the garage door opener and unlock it, by doing so you can manually move the garage door up and down for easy access to the lower rollers and will allow the lubricant to spread evenly through the track.

If you have any doubt, seek a professional with experience in repairing a garage door, he will perform effectively with knowledge.

Materials you will need:

Maintaining the rollers is a matter of keeping them lubricated, but you need suitable materials and tools to perform this job.

We ofter remind Homeowners to contact an experience garage door Technician as they are welling train as is very common see mistakes of using oil-based lubricants like WD40. In fact, WD40 is not the appropriate lubrican, instead, use silicone-based oil to lubricate the tracks and chains from the garage door. When you apply the lubricant, prepare a cloth for wiping off the drips. Lightly touch the rollers to lubricate and immediately wipe off excess oil. Garage door rollers must be oiled twice a year, or sooner if the garage door makes a squeaky or grinding noise when opened.

We also recommend to call All American Doors in case your are unsure about the steps to repair your garage door.

Conclusion:

We recommend perform a service to your garage door and door opener twice per year. This inspection should be perform only by train technicians or the homeowner present.

The proper inspection should be documented with the following items on the list below:

Garage Door balance
Rollers
Cables
Drums
Center Bearing

6. Center Bracket

7. Spring Bar

8. Hinges

9. Top Brackets

All American Doors can advice the homeowner for the proper service for their garage door, we are a local company serving Miami, Broward and West Palm Beach area.

How to fix a garage door keypad?

Tue, 26 Jul 2022 15:58:19 GMT

How to fix a garage door keypad?

How to fix the garage door keypad is a really common question we have from clients at All American Doors, and as we supply sales and service for Garage Doors we also want to share the tips that could save you time and money.

When ever you are working with a garage door you want to make sure you are wearing safety equipment. Search and read through keypad manual to find out the reason why the keypad from your garage door is not working. We also recommend to wear a pair of Nitrile Gloves and safety clear glasses.

Starting the maintenance procedure:

Most LiftMaster Keypad have 9V Alkaline battery that easily can be replace, and is located at the bottom of the keypad. To test if the keypad needs a new battery just go pressing one by one each button and if one of those numbers doesn’t light up is an indication that you garage door keypad is not working properly.

Try to replace the battery using a screwdriver and removing the screws from the bottom side from the keypad. Remove and replace the 9V Alkaline battery for a new one.
You may consider to change the code from your Keypad, specially if you tent to used the code with repeated numbers such us 1111, 2222, and so, as this keys tent to wear over time. To Change the passcode on you garage door keypad, just follow the instruction of your garage door keypad manual.
If changing the battery and passcode has not resolve your garage door keypad issue, then it may be the case that your garage door keypad and garage door opener are not sync or not longer communicating with each other. You will need to go to garage door opener and press the “Learn” Button and follow the steps from the garage door keypad manual in order to sync with your garage door opener.

If none of this steps worked out, is time to replace the keypad. You can replace it by purchase it online or going to your local home improvement store.

Conclusion:

Due to the constant use on garage doors, is always good to have a regular maintenance to your garage door, including all the parts and extra connections that need to be running properly for your daily basis. Sometimes this simple steps could save your hundreds of dollars.

1. Check the battery life from your garage door keypad
2. Change the passcode. (Follow the instruction on the manual) 3. Sync the garage door opener with the garage door keypad.

All American Doors can advice the homeowners their proper service for their garage door. We are a local company serving Miami, Broward and West Palm Beach area.

garage-doors

How to operate simple maintenance in your garage door

How to operate simple maintenance in your garage door

Basic tune up of a overhead garage ﻿ door

The spring

The hinges

The track

The chain

Conclusion:

How to properly maintain your garage door

How to properly maintain your garage door

Starting the maintenance procedure:

Know the Types of Rollers:

Roller Control:

Starting the maintenance for a garage door:

Materials you will need:

Conclusion:

How to fix a garage door keypad?

How to fix a garage door keypad?

Basic tune up of a overhead garage door