How often should you maintain your Lake Bluff garage door? How often do you use it?

When you consider the question, ‘How often should I maintain my Lake Bluff garage door?’ the answer is to ask another question: ‘How often do you use it?’ This is logical. The more often you use something mechanical the more wear and tear it will have. This principle applies to garage doors, too.

So, if you use your Lake Bluff garage door twice a day, that’s a pretty heavy amount of use and more frequent maintenance is critical. Of course, it’s possible that you use your garage door even more often than that. The frequency of performing maintenance should increase proportionately.

On the other hand, you may not use your garage door even twice a day. Maybe you don’t park your car in the garage and only use the door a couple times each week. Yes, you can get away with less frequent garage door maintenance. But, don’t make the mistake of thinking this means you shouldn’t maintain it. The question is simply about frequency.

Garage door maintenance – for that matter, garage door opener maintenance – is one of the most overlooked procedures when it comes to mechanical equipment around the house. Few people would allow the car to go three, four or more years without an oil change – the most basic form of automotive maintenance.

Some people have never performed maintenance on their Lake Bluff garage doors. As a general rule, having your garage door maintained once each year is the standard that garage door technicians and installers recommend. But, as mentioned above, if you use it heavily, you may want to increase the frequency of maintenance.

Maintenance includes lubricating the hinges, rails, rollers and other moving parts that come into contact with other parts. It also includes checking the adjustments so that the door is stopping all the way down, going all the way up and stopping if something, or someone, is in the way while the garage door is in operation. Maintenance will check all the springs, pulleys, chains, wiring and other parts of the door and the opener.

Without proper maintenance, your garage door may not break immediately, but you can expect it to slow down, make more noise and stand a greater risk of failure if it’s not maintained often enough. The garage door, and parts of the garage door, won’t last as long if you don’t maintain them.