Guide to Seasonal Garage Door Maintenance

Guide to Seasonal Garage Door Maintenance

Guide to Seasonal Garage Door Maintenance

Your garage door is one of the most important parts of your home. It plays a big role in curb appeal, and it can even influence the value of your home when you put it on the market. Many homeowners use their garage door as their house’s main entry and exit point, opening and closing it nearly a thousand times per year. 

It’s clear your garage door deserves some attention based on how essential it is to your daily life. By maintaining it, you can ensure it continues working for years to come. The team at Quality Overhead Door has compiled this guide to help you keep your garage door working and looking great through all 12 months of the year.

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How to Check Garage Door Balance

If your garage door makes odd sounds or looks uneven when it opens or closes, the balance may be off. A perfectly balanced garage door distributes weight evenly based on spring tension, spreading out the strain so that the garage opener doesn’t become overtaxed. When the tension is even, your door moves up and down smoothly without a sound.

When a door is unbalanced, however, the opener must strain to lift it. In many cases, this happens because the garage door spring balance gets thrown off, and the springs either exert too much or too little force. You may notice your garage door slows down when opening or closing, makes those strange sounds or even refuses to open entirely. When any of that happens, you can check your garage door balance to see if you need to make any adjustments. 

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How to Manually Open Your Garage Door When the Power Is Out

At some point, every homeowner with an automatic overhead garage door will need to know how to get the garage door open when the power is out. While some overhead garage doors come with backup power sources, most still require manual operation in the event of power loss. Learning how to properly open or close a garage door without power is critical for your safety and the structural integrity of your garage door, especially during the winter.

If you ever find yourself in that dreaded situation where the power is out but you need your garage door to open, follow these steps to safely opening your garage door without the help of the trolley system.

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Guide to Garage Door Window Options

Glass garage door window inserts add style and class to any type of residential garage door. Garage windows let in natural light and enhance a home’s curb appeal by increasing the garage door’s aesthetic value. But choosing the right design and type of glass inserts for your garage door can seem overwhelming given the countless options on the market. That’s why we’ve put together a brief guide for choosing garage door windows.

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How Do Garage Door Openers Work?

The garage door is the largest moving part of any house, and it’s crucial to make sure yours works correctly. You need your garage doors to work right so that you can easily enter and exit your home, especially if you keep your vehicles inside the garage. It’s also a safety hazard to have a garage door that doesn’t operate correctly.

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How to Match the Exterior of Your Home to the Interior

Every homeowner takes pride in their house and wants it to look as great as possible. With so many different styles of homes and constantly changing trends in home decor, some people may wonder about the relationship between the interior and exterior design of their homes.

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How to Fix Cold Weather Garage Door Problems

Those frigid Toledo winters can take a toll on your home in many ways — including making it more difficult to open and close your garage door. There are several weather-related issues that can prevent the system from operating efficiently. In the worst-case scenario, you could end up stuck inside or, even worse, outside of your garage, which is something you don’t need when the temperature dips below the freezing mark!

In this post, we’ll explore some of the more common cold weather garage door problems you’re likely to encounter. We’ll also provide some helpful tips on how to correct them — or even prevent them from occurring in the first place.

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Should You Choose Professional or DIY Garage Door Repair?

Should You Choose Professional or DIY Garage Door Repair?

We use our garage doors all the time. In fact, some of us use them more frequently than we use our front doors. After all, when you’ve just parked your car in the garage, it’s quick and convenient to enter your home via the garage — especially when you’re carrying bags full of groceries.

However, all this use results in considerable wear and tear. Over time, that inevitably leads to your garage door breaking down. If a breakdown has just happened to you, then you might be wondering whether to call a garage door pro or try to fix it yourself.

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Knowing When It’s Time to Replace Your Garage Door Springs

Know when it is time to replace your garage door's springs

Your garage door is one of the hardest working components in your home. Just think about how often you raise and lower it. For many homeowners, it serves as a veritable front door.

But all that heavy lifting inevitably brings wear and tear to your garage door. Some of its many moving parts are bound to break down eventually, and there’s a good chance your springs will be the first parts to go.

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Do I Need Annual Garage Door Maintenance?

Homeowners typically have their heating systems, cars and many other household items inspected and maintained on a regular basis. Why not the garage door? It can be easy to forget that your garage door is the largest moving object in most homes and has many expensive moving parts that need proper maintenance. Most people open and close their garage door hundreds of times every single month, which leads to the natural wear and tear associated with heavy use.

While it can be easy to forget about your door, life would be extremely inconvenient without it. That’s why annual garage door maintenance services are beneficial to any homeowner with a garage.

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