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.