Stop the Breakdown Before It Happens

Garage doors fail gradually. The rollers dry out and stop turning, so the door drags and the opener works harder than it should. The hinges wear at the pin and the door sags on one side. The bottom seal hardens and cracks, letting in rain, insects and the summer heat. The spring slowly loses tension, so the opener starts lifting weight the springs should be carrying. None of this announces itself. It just shortens the life of everything in the system until a part fails on a morning when you are already late for work. A tune-up is where we find those things by hand rather than waiting for them to become a call at midnight.

Concretely, a service visit means checking the door balance by hand and adjusting spring tension if needed, inspecting and lubricating rollers, hinges and bearing plates with the right product, checking the track alignment, tightening the lag bolts and hinges, testing the safety reverse on contact, checking the photo-eye sensors, inspecting cables for broken strands and the drums for wear, and looking at the opener force and travel settings. We then tell you what we found and what, if anything, needs doing. Coastal homes in Hollywood and Hallandale Beach benefit most, because salt air is hard on metal. So do heavy-use doors in Miramar and Davie, where a door cycles many times a day. If your door is under a bedroom in Weston or Pembroke Pines, the noise reduction alone is usually worth the visit.