What parts of your Spring Grove garage door are most likely to break?

If you maintain your Spring Grove garage door properly, you can expect to receive years and years of service without major issues. But, mechanical items, such as garage doors and garage door openers, do break. It’s a matter of time and use. The way to delay the inevitable garage breakage is to properly maintain your garage door.

What parts of your garage door are liable to break? Let’s say you’re leaving your Spring Grove home to do some shopping and, halfway up, the door jams. What would cause that problem?

There are a number of possible answers to that question. So, let’s take a look at the parts of a garage door system that break most often:

• The garage door opener breaks: There is a small electrical motor inside that garage door opener. There are springs, bearings, and gears. Sometimes, there is also a drive belt. Eventually, the garage door opener, or one of its parts, will break. However, if you lubricate the garage door hinges and bearings, you can reduce the load on the garage door opener and extend its life.
• Garage door cables break: The cables that lift your garage door are about 1/8th-inch thick. They carry a heavy load and they are used often. It’s a darn good thing they’re made of aircraft-quality cable, the wear and tear will take its toll and they can break. Once again, lightening the load by greasing hinges and bearings will help.
• Garage door rollers can break: The rollers are found traveling up and down the tracks on both sides of the garage door. A good-quality set of rollers will last a long time, especially if you lubricate them with sufficient frequency. Unfortunately, the rollers that come with garage doors are often of inferior quality.
• Garage door springs break: These springs are under so much tension that only a qualified garage door technician should work with them. People have lost fingers, hands and lives trying to replace their garage door springs when they didn’t have the experience required for the job. A spring under that much tension WILL break, eventually. Once again (I know – this is getting redundant), lubricating hinges and bearings will lighten the load on the springs.
• Garage door hinges can break: Garage door hinges can break by coming apart. They can also fail by rusting in place so they won’t turn as designed. You guessed it – lubricating them and they’ll last a lot longer (and all those other parts will appreciate it).

You probably use the garage door and garage door opener in your Spring Grove garage more often than you think about. It can work so reliably that you’ll virtually forget it is there. Then, when it breaks, you’ll remember when you probably don’t have time to deal with a broken garage door. But, maintain it properly and you probably won’t have to think about it too much for quite some time.