5 Tips For Maintaining Your Wooden Garage Doors

Your garage is as important as any part of your house. With this, it is necessary that you do some maintenance work on your garage. To avoid inconvenience, possible damage to your car, to yourself and to your house, do maintenance work regularly. Twice a year is the minimum number of times that you should maintain your garage. Aside from this, here are 5 tips for maintaining your wooden garage doors.

Maintenance of the garage springs

Springs are one of the most essential parts of your door. So each time that you open and close do it smoothly making sure that the spring is in its best form. Put oil every season and be sure the oil drips down and coat the cable. If you find it difficult to open and close your door probably the springs are not aligned or work out. When this happens consulting a professional is the best thing to do than doing it yourself and cause further damage.

Maintenance of other hardware

In the garage door are hardware elements. The hardware elements include hinges, roller, and levers. Make sure that they are regularly checked every six months. See to it that you tighten the loose screws, belts and other such parts before they fall out of adjustment. Look out also for the worn out parts.

Upkeeping electric door

If you have a hard time opening and closing your electric door disengage the garage opener. Then open and close it manually. If it works, it means your door is working fine however there is already some problem with the opener itself. In a case like this, seek the help of a professional or contact the person to whom you purchased it.

Maintenance of the door chain

See to it that the chain tension of your door is not drooping more than ½” below the rail. Fix it immediately because if not it will hit repetitively against your rail. This will force the drive sprocket to wear prematurely. Tighten it till you reach about ½” above the base of the rail but be sure that it is not too tight. If you do otherwise the tension will wear the chain out.

Putting insulation to the garage door

In order to lessen your energy expenses, you have to see to it that your door is properly insulated. Provide yourself with insulation kits which include tools and adhesives or you may shop online for Hormann garage sealing kits.

Often times, minor problems in the maintenance of a garage door such as those mentioned above could be done by the owner themselves. So, start treating your door as important as any part of your house. Give it the attention it regularly needs to avoid the hassles that might occur because of negligence. Avoid procrastinating a maintenance work that you can do now. Keep in mind these five tips for maintaining your wooden doors. Try them now before your door starts to fail.

Henry Baldwin is a garage door expert and a contributing author for Garage Door Superstore. For more tips and information about electric garage door, check out garage doors