When I bought my first home, I knew I was going to have to start maintaining different parts of the home to keep everything functioning properly. However, what I did not realize was that the garage door was one of these things. I decided to create this website because I had no idea how much maintenance a garage door needed and what types of maintenance. If you aren't cleaning your garage door tracks, checking for loose screws or oiling the tracks on a bi-monthly basis, I hope my website teaches you how to do this maintenance and the importance of performing it.
Your garage door has a component called a torsion spring, which contracts as the door lifts and stretches as the door is lowered. Some garage doors even have two torsion springs. Whether your garage door has one or two springs, they will not last forever. So, how do you know whether the time has come to have your torsion springs replaced? Take a look below.
The door closes very quickly toward the end
Does your garage door get almost closed, and then slam to the ground? This rapid acceleration during closing sometimes happens when the garage door spring is stretched out. It reaches a certain level of stretch, and then it no longer has the necessary tension to hold the door as it closes the rest of the way. When this starts happening, it's wise to have a garage door repair team come to replace the spring before the door suffers any damage from slamming into the ground.
You can't leave the door partway open
When everything is functioning as it should, you should be able to pause your garage door mid-close and have it stay suspended partially in the air. If the door slowly starts slinking down after you pause it partway, that's probably because the spring is stretched out. Having the door slink down when you've paused it is not safe, so address this issue sooner rather than later.
The door is clicking or jerking as it closes
Maybe your garage door opens and closes all the way, but during the opening or closing process, it makes a clicking noise or seems to jerk back and forth. This could be because of a lack of tension in certain parts of the torsion spring. The repeated jerking may eventually work some bolts or screws loose, so don't ignore it.
The spring snaps
Having this happen can be really dangerous since garage door torsion springs are under so much pressure. However, they are almost always threaded along a wire to make sure that if they do snap, they do not fly off and hit someone. Still, if a spring snaps, you won't miss it. The spring will snap back really quickly, make a loud noise, and possibly dent the garage door if it hits it. There is generally no fixing a spring that has snapped; you need to have it replaced.
If you need your torsion spring or springs replaced, have no fear. This is a repair that the garage door repair professionals do quite often, so they'll have a new one up for you in no time
Reach out to a garage door repair company for more information.
Share15 December 2022
