Maintenance will keep your Mundelein garage door and garage door opener off your mind this Thanksgiving

When you’re returning to your Mundelein home from the grocery store, a turkey and all the fixings in the back of your car or SUV, as you pull in the driveway, and push that button, you’re counting on the garage door to open. You have enough on your mind without dealing with a broken garage door opener today.

You’ve planned this meal to the last detail. And though it will only be the immediate family this year, what with the coronavirus, even a smaller turkey requires the same preparation before going into a pre-heated over. It still requires basting. The stuffing, the vegetables, the rolls, the potatoes: they all require preparation and planning so they’ll come out of the oven or the pan, ready to eat, when you’re ready to start carving that turkey.

Detail and maintenance are also required to ensure that the garage door operates as you want it to operate and when you want it to operate. If you ignore the garage door on your Mundelein garage for too long, it’s a wing-and-a-prayer whether it will continue to work as expected.

The detail involved in the operation of your garage door and garage door opener started when they were designed. Those designs are generally not new. Some say that the first garage doors were designed and built in 3500 BC. Of course, the design has been updated somewhat since then.

C.G. Johnson, of Hartford City, IN, is credited with inventing the first garage door opener in 1926. His design has also seen significant improvements over the years. 

As garage doors and garage door openers have experienced design improvements, they have relied on bearings, hinges, gears, pulleys, springs, belts and/or chains, etc, to work in concert to provide a garage door that opens and closes, smoothly and quietly, on demand. Those parts require cleaning, lubrication and adjustments to keep them in optimal working order.

If you perform the appropriate maintenance on your Mundelein garage door and garage door opener, you won’t have to give your garage door and garage door opener a second thought when you come out to the garage to get the pies you stored there in time for dessert. Thanksgiving dinner will come off without a hitch and your garage door and garage door openers will be the furthest things from your mind. 

Can ‘fishing’ get around your Antioch garage door security?

Is your Antioch garage secure? This is an especially crucial question if your garage is attached to your house. If someone were to break into your garage, would they have easy access to your house? Would you and your loved ones be at risk?

You push the button on the garage door opener remote to lower the garage door. Presumably, someone would have to have access to your garage door opener remote to get in, assuming the side door is securely locked. But you may not have barred them from entry into your Antioch garage to the degree you’ve assumed.

Some of the nefarious individuals who would consider breaking into your garage and/or home are rather clever. They may know of a trick – a trick called ‘fishing.’ 

The Way Fishing Works to Break into Your Antioch Garage

‘Fishing’ is a method someone breaking into a garage can use to open a ‘secure’ garage door. It’s actually fairly simple:

• They push back the top of the top panel of the garage door.
• They reach inside with a coat hanger or a stiff wire to snag the disconnect cable.
• They give the disconnect cable a yank.
• They lift the door.

It’s so easy that it may seem that there is a critical flaw in your garage door security. But you are not entirely at their mercy. If you anticipate the possibility that some unsavory character(s) would try to ‘Fish’ their way into your garage, you can eliminate the threat.

‘Fishing’ is no match for a properly adjusted garage door. If the garage door is adjusted so that the ‘stop’ point is tight to the floor a body builder won’t be able to push the top panel back to get the coat hanger inside and hook the disconnect.

Securing your home and garage door is a valuable idea in the best of times. The way things are these days, you may want to take additional steps to secure your Antioch garage door and home.