Home Maintenance Tip – Garage Doors
Hi everyone, Blake here with Fieldstone. Today’s home maintenance tip is garage doors. So what you will need today is yourself, a can of silicone spray lubricant, and that’s really all you need. So let’s get started.
Wheels & Tracks
We are now in the garage and the garage door is open. You can do this with the garage door open or closed, it doesn’t really matter. First, you are going to take your silicone spray lubricant and spray each wheel. You don’t have to spray a lot, just enough to get it lubed up. You can also spray the inside bottom portion of the track because that is where the wheel is sitting. What this does is keep the wheels and track lubed, helps keep you garage operating smoothly, and a little more quietly as well. Spray down the whole track, both sides, and your good to go for your garage track.
Pressure Test
The next step to garage maintenance is a monthly test you should do on your garage doors. It is a pressure test that makes sure that when your garage door comes down it doesn’t crush you or something underneath it. As the garage door comes down, it will feel the object and with only a small amount of pressure, returns to the opening position. This is a monthly test to make sure it remains operable. If for some reason this feature becomes disabled, you should have it repaired by a licensed garage door manufacture.
Infra-red Sensors
The final maintenance test is making sure that your infra-red sensors at the bottom portion of your garage door are operable. The sensors are to determine if something walks under the garage door and trigger motion and kick the garage door back up. As my hand is waved through the sensor, the garage door stopped and then returned to the opening position.
Okay, there you have it… your maintenance tip on your garage doors.
Fieldstone Homes is a Southern California Home Builder with new communities in San Marcos and Dana Point.
