Do you have to lean to make your crooked garage door look straight?

A crooked garage door faces greater wear and tear

Something seems funny, kind of out of whack, when you look at your garage door. Is it you or is it the door? If, when leaning slightly to one side, your garage door looks straighter, you may have a garage door that isn’t aligned straight in its tracks or the garage door opening. You may want to do something about this.

Assuming your garage door was aligned properly when it was new, something must have gone wrong over time. This isn’t out of the realm of possibility; wear and tear can cause garage doors to go out of alignment. Parts can break which can also result in a crooked garage door.

• Worn cables
• Broken springs
• Rusted springs
• Broken rollers
• Misaligned rollers
• More

If you never used your garage door, time will still take its toll. Parts will rust. Springs can loose their tension. But, no doubt, you do use your garage door.

Every time you raise and lower your garage door, parts grind against each other. Tension is applied to parts. There is wear and there is tear. 

If you keep your garage door properly lubricated and aligned, you reduce the amount of wear and tear. The durability of your garage door is improved. But once things start getting out of whack, additional strain is placed on your garage door and garage door opener.

The moral of the story is that you don’t have to stand leaning to one side when looking at your garage door, and it won’t help to reduce the harm caused by a misaligned and/or damaged garage door. Have it fixed promptly and you’ll spare the door all that extra wear and tear. 

In the meantime, timely garage door maintenance can help keep your garage door straight to begin with.

Time to replace your Twin Lakes garage door?

Have a little fun and choose a garage door you’ll like

The bad news is that your Twin Lakes garage door has given up the ghost. It’s weathered beyond functionality. It’s broken, bandaged and ready to be abandoned. Hopefully, your garage door opener isn’t past its prime, too. But it’s a good idea to check with a trusted garage door technician who isn’t determined to sell you whatever they can. 

Once you’ve accepted the bad news, it’s time to consider some good news. The good news is ‘You Have Choices.’

You can choose to replace your garage door with a flat, white garage door – the simplest and most straightforward choice you can make. But you’ve still made a choice. As long as you’re making a choice, one way or the other, why not have some fun with the decision.

Garage doors come in a variety of styles and materials. Some are insulated. Some aren’t. 

Insulated or not, garage doors come in the following materials:

• Metal
• Aluminum
• Fiberglass
• Vinyl
• Wood
• A Wood Composite
• PVC

Some garage doors have windows. Some have molding. Of course, they also come in different levels of quality. That’s often apparent with the price of the garage door.

In terms of quality, certainly, you want a garage door that will last. You want a garage door that will stand up to the weather. In these regards, once again, check with that trusted garage door technician. They have experience with garage doors and can, most likely, tell you which doors experience the most problems that the technicians are called upon to fix.

Beyond quality, however, you also want to consider the ambience of your new garage door. What style fits your garage and home the best? What color works best? 

With some materials, such as a vinyl garage door, the color on the surface is the color of the material throughout. In such a case, if you scratch the garage door, you won’t expose the color of the subsurface material. Scratches are less apparent.

Some garage door materials are easier to paint. They designed to be painted. You may want to take a sample of the trim color of your Twin Lakes home to the paint store and have them set you up with paint that matches precisely. 

We all hope that our garage doors will last indefinitely. Reality is that, while a good garage door will last a very long time, as a thing mechanical, we can’t expect them to last forever. As long as you’re replacing your Twin Lakes garage door, why not make the most of it?