Category Archives: Tips and Tricks

Always Secure Your Garage Door for Home Safety
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News like the following are among the scariest experiences any of us can go through. Earlier this week, KSTP reported:

The New Brighton Department of Public Safety says a home was burglarized after the resident left a garage door open overnight.

The burglary was reported around 11 a.m. Saturday, Aug. 11, on the 1200 block of Robin Lane. The victim says the overhead garage door was accidentally left open and several items were taken overnight.

Law enforcement officials are reminding community members to double-check doors at night and look out for neighbors if they accidentally leave their doors open.

The Premium Garage Door Service team has seen many news reports this summer detailing how homes were burglarized or broken into, and the entry point was an open or unlocked garage door. While garage doors are a wonderful convenience to have, it’s important it’s properly secured or it can be utilized in ways it shouldn’t be. Make sure this doesn’t happen to your home by always following these tips:

  • NEVER give out your garage door access code to strangers
  • ALWAYS close your garage door when you’re not home or you’re away from the garage
  • MAKE sure your garage door is locked at all times that it’s not open
  • IF you have windows on your garage door, cover them with curtains
  • DON’T leave your garage door opener in plain view
Some Final Garage Door Safety Tips
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Tomorrow is the last day of June, which also means it’s the last day of National Garage Door Safety Month. Before we head off into July, we’d like to offer up a few garage door safety tips so that you, as well as those you care about, are as safe as possible around your garage door, the largest moving object in your home.

  • Keep the garage door out of the reach of any small children.
  • Also remind small children that they shouldn’t place fingers near any cracks or crevices in the garage door.
  • Establish a rule with older children — the garage door remote is not a toy.
  • Visually inspect the garage door yourself every month for anything out of the ordinary, and call a St Paul Garage Door repair specialist if you find something wrong.
  • Always keep your garage door either completely open or completely closed. Don’t leave the door partially open.
  • When on vacation, be sure to unplug your automatic garage door opener so that no one can use a stolen remote to gain unauthorized entry to your garage.

We hope you’ve had a great month in June, and a safe month with your garage door. We’ll see you in July!

Garage Door Trouble Spots
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If you begin to experience problems opening or closing your garage door, there are a few different areas you can check for issues. When you have an idea of how serious the problem is, you’ll know if its something simple that you can repair yourself, or if its something that might require the services of a garage door repair specialist.

One of the first places you should look for potential complications is on the garage door tracks and mounting brackets. There are occasions where the brackets might become loose, and a repair is as simple as screwing the brackets tightly back into place. If it looks like the track is damaged, however, it might need to be replaced. It’s a good idea to call a company like Premium Garage Door Service for this kind of job.

Other areas to check if you have problems opening your garage door include the opener itself if your garage door has an automatic opener. These systems utilize a system of pulleys and cables, and like anything with moving mechanical parts, the parts can wear out and fail over time. If your opener needs repaired, you’ll likely want to leave that to a professional repair company.

You can schedule a garage door repair service call with Premium Garage Door Service today by calling (612) 234-4812 or by completing the form on our website.

Universal Garage Door Opener Remotes
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A universal garage door opener remote is a lot like a universal television remote. There are many different brands and models, and these universal remotes try to support as many garage door opener units as possible, just like a universal TV remote tries to support as many TVs as possible. They’re even programmed in a similar way; usually, a list of codes will be included with the garage door opener remote, and you’ll program the universal remote to work with your garage door opener using its corresponding code.

One very important thing to remember when you purchase a universal garage door opener: don’t throw away the manual! This usually contains the garage door opener codes. And be sure to keep Premium Garage Door Service in mind for all of your Twin Cities garage door opener needs. Get in touch today by visiting our website.

Have a Bent Garage Door Track?
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If your garage door is having problems opening and closing, a number of issues could be the cause. Often times, a bent garage door track is to blame. This is the section of the garage door that guides the door’s rollers, and keeps the door in its place. Here’s what a bent track looks like.

If your garage door track looks like this, especially in the area where opening and closing the garage door proves difficult, it’s been bent somehow. This can happen due to a car hitting the garage door, or a person kicking or falling into a garage door. When faced with a problem like this, it’s probably a good idea to call in a specialist for a repair. If you try to repair the garage door track on your own, you run the risk of damaging it further, as well as potentially damaging the rest of the garage door assembly if something goes wrong.

Premium Garage Door Service has been providing Maple Grove garage door repair services for garage door tracks, as well as other parts of garage doors, for over 20 years. Give us a call today to set up an appointment, and we’ll come out and decide on the best course of action for your garage door track.