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Garage Door Repair Can Be Avoided With Proper Maintenance
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Do you follow the fire department’s recommendation to replace the batteries in your smoke alarms when you adjust your clocks for daylight savings time? How often do you perform, or arrange for preventive maintenance to be done on your garage door?

Your garage door and the garage door opener have certain inspection, testing, and maintenance requirements that should be addressed a few times a year. This is required for safety and to reduce the chance of needing an expensive garage door repair.

Most of the moving parts such as rollers (except nylon rollers), hinges, springs, chains, and jack screws need lubrication. The alignment of the tracks should be checked, and the security of all nuts and bolts should be ensured.

The operation of the safety features should also be checked. The auto-reverse feature should cause the door to immediately stop and reverse direction if the bottom of the door comes into contact with anything during the closing cycle. The same thing should occur when anything passes across the path of the photo-electric eye .sensor beam. You will also want to be sure that the manual release mechanism will disconnect the door from the opener.

At first glance, garage doors seem to be a fairly simple mechanism, but in reality they are one of the more complex systems in a home. Because of this, and potential safety concerns, periodic maintenance inspections by a trained garage door repair technician is recommended. With proper maintenance, you can expect to get many years of trouble free service from your garage door.

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!

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.

DIY Garage Door Repairs – Why You Should Call a Garage Door Company
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The first instinct of many when they are having garage door issues is to perform the garage door repairs by themselves. While you might think you’re saving money by not calling a garage door professional and the project – whether it be a new door or opener – might seem simple enough, you should never take the DIY approach to your garage door.

Premium Garage Door Service has been in operation for over 20 years, and we’ve become masters of our craft by keeping up to date on industry trends and new technologies. We know what NOT to do when it comes to garage door repairs.

So, why should you call a professional garage door company? The biggest reason is though the homeowner might think they know all there is, simple mistakes (which can turn into very costly repairs later) can still happen. These mistakes can include:

  • Improper leveling of the new garage door
  • Faulty parts or assembly of important components
  • Errors in laying the track for automatic garage doors
  • Mistakes in wiring the electric
  • Blunders in installing the joints and connections

Troubleshooting garage door issues is no simple task, and while your inner handyman might say, “Just take care of it yourself,” you will still have to spend time learning what (and what not) to do, and these are skills you may not use again.

A New Look for Premium Garage Door Service
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Notice anything different about PremiumGarageDoorService.com?

We’re thrilled about the new look for our website, which has an up-to-date look and feel and makes finding what you want much easier. The new website includes information about garage door springs and our garage door services.

If you’re looking to have your garage door fixed or replaced, or just want to let us know what you think of the new look, contact us today! We look forward to hearing from you.