Do Twin Lakes homeowners know about garage door maintenance?

Most of us know how important it is to maintain our cars. We know that, if we don’t, you’re liable to find us on the side of the road somewhere waiting for a tow truck. We know about maintaining the furnace and air conditioners in our homes lest we find ourselves too hot or too cold. We maintain our roofs so that moisture doesn’t get in and eat away at the sub-roof while spreading water damage below. But do Twin Lakes homeowners know about garage door maintenance?

Mechanical devices require maintenance. Most of the time, they’re made of materials that can rust, stretch, crack and break. They have parts that often rub together. They have motors that shown the strain of their efforts over time. All of these factors apply to the garage door and garage door opener in your Twin Lakes garage.

And yet, garage doors and garage door openers are among the most neglected mechanical devices in our lives. Considering that we use them almost daily, this doesn’t make a lot of sense.

When you use your garage door it usually means that the garage door opener is required to lift the garage door so you can get out and bring it back down after you return. That means that, in most days, your garage door makes a minimum of four trips up and down. If you came and went each day for a year, your garage door will go up, and come back down, 1,460 times.

That’s quite a workout for the garage door opener and the mechanical parts of your garage door. It’s a testament to the quality construction and design of most garage doors and garage door openers. But, eventually, even the best garage doors and garage door openers are going to breakdown.

The likelihood that your garage door or garage door opener will breakdown generally depends on how well you maintain these neglected mechanical devices. But there’s more to it than simply when they will breakdown; it’s also a question of performance in the meantime.

In other words, even if your garage door hasn’t broken yet, it probably isn’t going up as quickly and efficiently as it did before. Over time, the process of raising and lowering your garage door will also get quieter. In the meantime, you’re also putting increased stress on parts of the garage door and garage door opener.

All that extra strain required to raise and lower the garage door will cause the motor of the garage door opener to work harder and heat up more in the process.

Garage door maintenance is not something you have to do twice a week. In fact, once a year is probably good enough. It’s an extremely cost-effective way to extend the life and performance of the garage door and garage door opener in your Twin Lakes garage.