Antioch winter weather will test your garage door and garage door opener

When did you last perform maintenance on your Antioch garage door? Have you ever had maintenance performed on your Antioch garage door? If you’re like most people, you probably fit in the latter category of people who have never had maintenance performed on their garage door.

Garage door maintenance is crucial to extending the life of your garage door, garage door opener and components. This makes all-the-more sense when winter rolls into Antioch.

Winter will test your garage door, garage door opener and various components. Whatever grease is in the bearings that guide the door panels up and down in the rails will thicken as the weather gets colder. There should be an ample amount of grease but that isn’t always the case. In fact, more often than not, it isn’t the case.

When the doors aren’t maintained, the rollers don’t roll as smoothly. The doors will bind up and stick. The degree to which the garage door drags as it moves up and down may seem almost imperceptible to the naked eye, but you can believe its effects are very real.

When the garage door doesn’t move up and down as easily it puts more strain on the motor of the garage door opener. If you could put your hand on the motor, and compare to when the door moved smoother, you might notice that the motor is getting hotter as it drives the door up and down without proper maintenance.

The rollers in the rails will also get hotter as they move up and down in their channels. Heat is not the friend of moving parts that come into contact.

As the lack of maintenance takes its toll, metal parts will strain and twist as they bear the extra burden of a garage door that is not as smooth as the day it was installed.

Maintenance of your Antioch garage door and garage door opener reduces the strain. Your garage door will last longer needing fewer repairs. More than that, it will continue to run smoother, quieter and operate with the speed you’re used to.