Protect Hainesville garage door weather stripping and it will protect your garage and possessions

Those shingles on the roof of your garage are there to keep the water out. They protect everything inside. The weather stripping around your Hainesville garage door is there for the same reason. If you keep the weather stripping in good shape it will help keep your garage in good shape, as well as everything you keep inside the garage.

The weather stripping is generally made of rubber and rubber is a petroleum product. That means there is oil inside the rubber. The sun, heat and cold speed the process by which the oil is dried out of the rubber. Overtime, and as a result, the rubber will shrink and crack. In time, the deterioration will be so complete that the rubber will crumble.

As the rubber deteriorates, water gains access. In the winter, this means that thawing snow and ice come through to do their damage to things inside. In the summer, particularly a monsoon-like summer such as this, the rainwater can get past the rubber weather stripping as it deteriorates.

One part of your Hainesville that you really want to protect is the bottom plate of the walls. Hopefully, this is raised from the floor, particularly since many garages are built today with a constant downward pitch toward the front of the garage. But, if the water has a chance to get into the wood around the walls of your garage it can cause the wood to rot and mold.

Items that you keep in garage can also suffer from rainwater that gets inside the garage. What do you keep in the garage? Can water damage it? These are good questions, particularly if your garage door weather strip is showing signs of wear.

If your Hainesville garage door weather strip is showing signs of wear, moving things off the floor is a temporary solution. The real answer is to replace the weather stripping around the door. And don’t wait too long. This is one wet Hainesville summer.

Sweep the cobwebs from that Gurnee garage door

And some lubrication and maintenance wouldn’t hurt

You might want to wipe the cobwebs off your Gurnee
garage door. Having a garage door technician come in
and take a look - do a little maintenance - isn't a bad
idea either.

Garage doors are among the most neglected mechanical devices in your Gurnee home. It’s not that folks intend to neglect them; it just works out that way.

It’s actually a tribute to garage doors and garage door openers that they can work so well, for so long, when maintenance is the farthest thing from their owners’ minds. For many people, in Gurnee or otherwise, their garage doors have never received any maintenance. And yet those garage doors still go up and down on demand.

The problem is that, reliable as they are, as with anything mechanical, the time will come when something will break. Even more inevitable is that imperceptible decay in the efficiency of their operation.

From day to day, you don’t notice that the garage door is making more noise than it used to - that it takes longer for the garage door to go up and down. If it happened all at once, you’d notice immediately. But the change is incremental and minute. How can you tell the difference when the sound only goes up by the fraction of a decibel at a time or it takes a fraction of a second longer to raise and lower the door than it did yesterday?

Maintenance will keep your Gurnee garage door and garage opener operating at their peak performance longer. It will help to stave off that inevitable day when parts break and require repair or replacement. In the process, maintenance is a highly-cost-effective way of saving money.

The day you need to replace your garage door, garage door opener, or parts of either of these mechanical devices, is the day you have to open your wallet wider than you wanted or needed. Garage door maintenance – garage door opener maintenance – are the keys to a long and efficient life for your Gurnee garage door and garage door opener. That maintenance includes using the proper lubricants strategically applied.