How to do up-and-over garage door maintenance: if your garage door is locked again and you are looking for the right procedure to follow to repair it, you are in the right place. Read on to learn more.
More and more people have acquired thethe habit of installing an overhead door for your garage, it represents the perfect combination of practicality, of safety is, an element not to be underestimated, of refinement. It is a very comfortable system that recovers a lot of space by opening upwards, allowing, among other things, to accommodate many more things in the garage for a perfect organization.
But something can go wrong and you may find yourself struggling with screws, bolts, hinges, cables, hinges or rails that, when subjected to continuous strain, creak, loosen or worse break.
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The key to maintaining your door always in excellent condition is a good and periodic maintenance. Just a few tricks, the right ones, are enough to have a door that is always efficient and fully functional. In addition, if problems arise, it is enough to know how to identify them and thus solve the problem in time. Let’s get to know them and solve them together. Are you ready?
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What you need
Like any good self-respecting project since it is done at its best, you need to make sure you have it first right tools to intervene. Aside from our ears always alert to squeaks or strange noises, our toolbox – unparalleled adventure companion – must be properly prepared. Let’s see how.
The bulk of the maintenance work, as we will see later, will focus on the mechanical components, which is why what absolutely must not be missing in it are:
- fat for gears
- screwdrivers.
Secondly we must think about how to protect ourselves so we must strictly use:
- rubber gloves to protect the hands
- glasses protective for our eyes
- mask so as not to breathe unnecessary dust.
Do not forgetfinally, to wear work clothes (preferably old) and have on hand a ladder portable, preferably in light aluminum, so as to allow easy movement, equipped with comfortable steps on which to work in complete safety so that you can easily reach the points where you need to intervene.
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All the maintenance work will go smoothly if you know the door structure well, you can’t improvise and then who better than us can help you learn more? Let’s go.
Up-and-over garage door: where to start
Before understanding how to intervene, let’s take a step back and let’s take a closer look at how our overhead door is composed. In fact, it is made of a stainless metal, zinc, so it will not be necessary to use paints on the outside to protect it from rust. Our maintenance will therefore focus on the internal components, the mechanical ones, that is the motor and the steel rope.
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Everything starts from ainspection: You have to be careful for any signs of malfunction to get straight to the point: eye and ears your antennas e the yours best allies. Make sure the door looks symmetrical, if it doesn’t, you need to repair it by taking a look at the frames that support it. If it squeaks or squeaks, instead, check the springs, pulleys and cables.
Now we can move on to get our hands dirty in the true sense of the word: let’s intervene!
The right procedure to follow
First we need to raise our overhead door and, with the help of our ladder, get to the mechanism that moves it. You must check that there are no accumulated debris or dust that could hinder its correct functioning then, helping you with grease, you must properly grease the pulley wheel, i looms and how much it contributes to its movement. Watch out for your hands!
Finally, pass the grease along the string with a screwdriver. When you work it is of fundamental importance to ensure that you operate in complete safety, for this you will have to disconnect the door opener e, put the controls in safety, put pliers that block the door and prevent it from falling on you. Operation completed testing the correct operation door, lifting and lowering the door several times and placing a lock at the base to see if the reverse automatic mechanism is triggered correctly. Once this is done, the job is done.
If you are not sure how to intervene, always ask for the intervention of a professional in order to avoid the creation of additional problems that could irreparably damage your garage door.
How to do up-and-over garage door maintenance: photos and pictures
If by reading our article you have fully understood the importance of proper maintenance for the overhead door of your garage, you just have to follow all the operations to be done step by step. Don’t jeopardize your safety and that of others, enter this operation in the calendar to be repeated every year in spring or autumn when the weather permits.
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