If you’re looking for ways to Repair your garage door you’ve come to the right place – Call a professional. Never attempt to adjust your own torsion springs -
if you don’t know what you are doing you can sustain serious facial and hand injuries. Do not remove or attempt to remove any part of your garage door that is connected to the springs, the steel tube that it is mounted to the bracket that secures the spring system to the garage wall, the brackets that are connected to the bottom of the door, or loosen any bolts or screws securing the spring or cable drums.
Call a professional
You’ve heard it 100 times before; the garage door is the largest moving object in your home.
Yet, every day home owners and children over look the real dangers that garage doors present. Many people believe that garage doors are made of aluminum - False. Garage doors are made of steel and the most common size of garage door usually weighs around 160lbs. This is something you would never know because the counter balance system (the garage door spring) makes it almost effortless to raise and lower a garage door.
Operating a garage door with a faulty garage door counter balance system can have catastrophic consequences. How?
Improperly balanced garage door springs can cause the door to come down much faster that you would expect and with enough force to cause serious injury to a small child.
Operating a garage door with broken springs - even if your garage door opens and closes with 1 of the 2 springs broken or with the garage door operator by it self presents the possibility that the door could disconnect from the garage door opener carriage and free fall.
The garage door opener carriage is a small usually plastic attachment that glides or tracks along the opener rails as the door open.
How do you keep your family safe?
If you follow no other safety guideline doing this one simple thing could save a life.
Teach your family and your children to stand at least 3 feet away from an opening or closing garage and enforce this rule by following it yourself. This also includes not trying to run underneath an opening or closing garage door. – the springs could fail causing you or a child to become pinned under neat a 160+ pound garage door with no way to get out.
So don't take foolish chances and set a good example for small and your family.
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