Are your Lindenhurst garage door springs getting tired?

Spring just ended last week and though most of us here in Lindenhurst are happy to have the summer stretching out ahead of us, few of us are actually tired of spring. After all, spring is not a season to tire of. Unlike winter, which many of us are happy to put behind us, we generally enjoy spring.

While you’re not tired of spring, you may want to consider if your springs are tired. Which springs? The springs on your Lindenhurst garage door.

Garage door springs do get tired over time. They probably don’t care too much for winter either, since the winter brings extremes of cold that have a peculiar relationship with the metal of your garage door springs.

The cold makes metal contract. Think about when you get cold and draw back into your winter coat to huddle against the frigid temps. Your body is rigid. The same is true of your garage door springs. Winter makes them stiff.

Fortunately, as we all appreciatively know, winter has passed. In fact, spring has also passed. Those garage door springs have warmed up and relaxed, most likely, again. Most likely because the winter of 2021-22 was probably not their first winter.

How many winters have your garage door springs survived? How many times have they contracted with the winter cold and then warmed up again in the spring? These kinds of things strain metal parts, particularly metal parts that are designed to flex, like springs.

It’s reasonable to think of garage door springs as boosters. They take up most of the weight of a garage door. When you open the garage door by hand, you’ve probably noticed that it takes some effort to do so. Imagine what it would be like without those garage door springs.

If you had no garage door springs, you’d have to lift all that weight yourself. It would really take some effort. You’d get a workout lifting your garage door.

If it takes that much energy for you to lift the garage door by hand, think about that little box in the ceiling of your garage. Inside that box is a small motor. Many garage door openers have half or quarter horsepower motors. And yet they lift and lower your garage door day after day, again and again, winter, spring, summer, fall and back to winter again.

Imagine if you garage door assembly didn’t have springs to lift that garage door. What is certain is that you would need a much bigger motor in the garage door opener. And you’d need a much bigger box to put it in.

In the meantime, while that spring takes a lot of the load off your garage door opener, as your garage door springs get tired, more and more of that load is passed off to your garage door opener. This is why you want to consider the idea that your garage door springs may be getting tired.

In the meantime, enjoy the Lindenhurst summer ahead while you let a garage door technician check out your garage door springs.