Mistakes to avoid when installing/repairing garage doors
Garage doors are quite heavy and protect your vehicles from external dust, dirt and burglar attacks. Therefore, you must carefully install them in the most professional way. Yes, garage door installation is an expensive process. Obtaining professional assistance and support could involve a large amount of money. Making it a DIY project is the only way to cut costs in this process. However, make sure that you have enough experience in this before you engage in this activity. Making a small mistake here can throw your entire door setup out of alignment, making it a very costly process for you. These are some of the common mistakes people make when installing or repairing their garage doors.
1. Complacency
Does your garage door not open or close smoothly as usual? It should ring an alarm bell in your mind that it could be a problem with the tracks or the springs. Most of the time, people push and try to open/close the doors very forcefully, and ignore the problem as long as this method works well. When the method no longer works, they call in an expert and discover that a small crack in the tracks has become a big problem, causing misalignment issues. When you don’t catch these little problems early on, you have to pay huge costs to correct the mess you’ve allowed them to become. Clean the metal tracks in your garage frequently to keep them free of dust and debris; this will ensure your doors move smoothly.
two. Nails or screws?
One of the main causes of garage door repair is bent or broken nails. Many people feel that screws are expensive and instead use nails to fasten doors to rails or frames. While nails save you a lot of money initially, they come off too easily due to the weight of the doors and soon bend or break. This is where having a big picture mindset would help you immensely. Want to save a few bucks by opting for nails instead of screws and end up burning a deep hole in your pocket later when these nails come loose too soon and cause excessive damage to your doors?
3. Driving while the garage door is moving
Overhead door repair problems also occur mainly due to our impatience. How many of us are driving to or from our garage when the doors are still moving? In an attempt to get in or out in a hurry, we do not pay attention to the fact that we are causing excessive damage to the doors due to the friction of our vehicles. These doors are quite heavy, so when they are hit by our vehicles, the impact is quite large and involves large repair costs. The only solution to get rid of this problem is to wait patiently until the doors have fully rolled up and then go into our garage. Exercising two minutes of patience can save us huge costs in the long run.
