Catch it before it strands your car.
Your garage door is the heaviest moving thing in the house and the whole thing runs on tension. A tune-up puts that tension back where it belongs and tightens up everything the door has shaken loose since the last one.
What it covers
8 items- Spring tension checked and balanced
- Every bolt and bracket tightened
- Rollers and track inspected
- Hinges, bearings and shaft lubricated
- Cables checked for fraying
- Safety reverse tested against an obstruction
- Photo eyes aligned
- Opener force and travel limits set
How the visit goes
No mystery about it.
The balance test
With the opener disconnected, a properly balanced door holds its own position around waist height. If it drops or fights you, the springs no longer match the door and the opener is carrying the difference.
The shake-out
A door cycles thousands of times and vibration walks every fastener loose. Hinges, brackets, track bolts and the opener bracket all get pulled up.
The safety pass
Reverse on contact, photo eyes, and the force settings. This is the part most people never test and it is the part that matters around kids and cars.
Weeks of warning
A door tells you before it quits.
Almost nothing on a garage door fails without notice. The noise changes, the feel changes, the timing changes. People get used to it because it happens slowly. These are the ones worth calling about while they are still small.
- It got noisier over a few weeks rather than overnight
- It shudders or hesitates on the way up
- One side lifts a beat before the other
- The opener strains at the top of the travel
- You can see a gap in a spring coil
- A cable looks frayed where it meets the drum
Tell him what it's doing
Describe the noise. Will knows the noise.
The banging, the sticking, the crooked side, the thing that only happens when it is cold. You will get a straight answer and a real number.
(720) 726-0765