Garage Door Maintenance Tips

Like anything with moving parts, your garage door -- which is often times the largest moving part of your home -- can suffer from wear after being used over an extended period of time. The difference between a small part replacement and an expensive fix can be whether or not you're able to discover the tiny problems before they become big ones. When issues arise and aren't dealt with quickly, they can grow and ultimately speed up the wear on other parts of your garage door. Here are a few maintenance tips to keep things running smoothly.

Cleaning your garage doors on a regular basis can help decrease the exterior wear they can suffer from. This can be accomplished using the soft type of brush you'd use on a car, and a mild detergent. A regular cleaning keeps tough residue off of your garage door, and helps it look good and last longer.

On moving parts, such as any chains, hinges, or rollers, it's good to occasionally apply some grease or spray an oil lubricant like WD-40.When your moving parts are able to move more smoothly, you're less likely to experience a jam.

Finally, if you have an automatic garage door opener, make sure the emergency sensors are working as intended. There will likely be one halfway up the garage door on the side that stops the door from closing should break the line of sight for the sensor. Another emergency sensor is the one that detects any pushback from the garage door. Sensitivity should be set in such a way that your St Paul garage door could come down on a roll of paper towels, push in slightly, but open right back up again.

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Importance of a Properly Functioning Garage Door: Keeps Bears Out

With National Garage Door Safety Month wrapping up, we'd like to remind you again just how important it is to keep your garage door completely closed and locked. Not only will it help you keep burglars out of your garage and your home, it'll also help you keep out other unwanted intruders; namely, animals, like the bear cub in the video below. The cub, who became trapped in the garage after crawling in under the door, crawled on top of the door's track and hung there until his mother arrived. Amazingly, the mother bear opened the garage door like a human and held it open while she called for her cub.


A garage door that closes and locks properly can help you keep guests like this one out of your garage. If you haven't had your door checked out in a while, you may want to get in touch with a Minneapolis garage doors company like Premium Garage Door Service to have it looked at. Regular maintenance to your garage door can keep it operating as intended, and can also help spot wear on certain components that could lead to larger, more expensive repairs in the future.

Make sure your garage door is working the way it's supposed to. Get in touch with Premium Garage Door Service today at (612) 234-4812 to schedule an appointment.

Checking On Your Automatic Opener

An automatic garage door opener can add a fair amount of convenience to your life. Think about living with a manual door in the past, which required you to get out of the car and open or close the door every time you wanted to enter or exit your garage. An automatic opener provides you with a remote control and the ability to open and close the door with the push of a button.

Of course, as is the case with anything that has moving parts, you may run into some issues down the line with your automatic garage door opener. That's why it's important to regularly check out these parts to ensure that the opener continues to function properly. Fuses can go bad, as well as power sources and switches, and the more mechanical parts, such as the pulleys and levers that are required for the garage door to physically open and close. By taking a look at these items occasionally to make sure everything looks good and no wearing has occurred, you can be sure your garage door will work as intended.

If you're already experiencing problems and you need a repair company to turn to, get in touch with Minneapolis garage doors repair company Premium Garage Door Service.