Residential garage doors: What could go wrong?
Your home’s garage door is a deceptively complex piece of machinery, even if your home has a manually operated single door. The mechanisms that make a garage door easy to open and a cinch to shut closed don’t often break, but when they do, the repair may not be a do-it-yourself job. The springs and cables associated with a manually opened door are under tension (when they operate normally). The motor and chain drive an automated garage door system is an electrical component that may have live electricity fed to it. In either situation, if you’ve noticed that your garage door is not operating smoothly, effectively, or not at all, and you live in Rockland County or surrounding areas, consider calling a garage door repair specialist like On Track Garage Doors. On Track Garage Doors are specialists in installing, repairing, and replacing broken garage door components like torsion springs, track guides, and garage-door opener motors.
Torsion springs. Torsion springs allow a user to open and close a heavy overhead garage door with relative ease and safety. According to Wikipedia. the torsion spring of a garage door is “a metal rod or wire in the shape of a helix (coil) that is subjected to twisting about the axis of the coil by sideways forces (bending moments) applied to its ends, twisting the coil tighter.” The torsion springs of a manually operated garage door go to work every time the garage door is opened or closed, so they see a lot of action. They are therefore prone to break more often than stationary door parts.
Door tracks. Door tracks or door guides are the rails that the opening and closing garage door ride along as they move. The garage door tracks are typically fitted on the inside of the door opening and run up to open the door horizontally, and in many cases will turn overhead to stow the door horizontally (parallel to the ceiling). The door tracks need to be measured and installed accurately so that the door works smoothly without coming free of the track and falling.
Electric Opener Motors. For garage doors that are opened and closed with the help of an electric garage door opener motor, repairs may be more intricate. Each opener is designed and rated to work with a specific size and weight of door. The electric motor of a garage door allows even heavy or large garage doors to open and close at the push of a button. Electric garage door motors are hardwired into the structure’s electrical system. There are many manufacturers of garage door motors today, and each brand has its own distinct advantages.
Garage doors are not the simple mechanisms they seem to be. The easy open-and-close functionality of a garage door belies the mechanics that make the effort seem easy. And when a garage door doesn’t open for some reason, the choice for inspection and repair is made easy by On Track Garage Doors. OnTrack Garage Doors has a mission is to cater to each and every customer with individual attention, and focus on their particular garage door needs while providing the best prices in Westchester, Putnam, Rockland and Duchess Counties! Whether you are looking for a new garage door, or a repair on an existing garage door, On Track is the company to call!