Different Maintenance Services That Need To Be Done On Garage Doors in Cape Town
5 Maintenance Services That Need To Be Done On Your Garage Door
A garage door in Cape Town needs to be serviced at least 2 a year. This is due to the extreme wind conditions and the salty ocean breeze we have that beats again your garage door every day. Below we'll take a look at the damage these two elements cause and the reasons why you need to attend to you your garage door sooner than later.
Cape Town Ocean Breeze & South Easter Wind
The ocean breeze is one of the main reasons why garage doors stop working. The salty air get's blown in by the South Eater wind also known as the Cape Doctor and makes it's way into every part of your door. Once of the first things that goes is the wheels as the salt starts to rust the bearings and seizes them up. Usually this can be fixed by using a oil called Q20. It's a spray on oil that makes it's way into the inner most parts of the bearing and frees the ball bearings to turn easily again.
The second thing that goes are your cables. They either snap which is the most common reason for replacing them or they start to giving problems when winding onto the drums of your garage. I find that the best thing to do in this situation is just to replace your garage door' cables as they are inexpensive and it's a pretty easy task.
The 3rd part of your garage door that gets rusted up by the salt air is are the hinges between the panels. You know when they are rusted or starting to rust when they start to squeak when you open and close the door. This can be easily remedied just by spraying the joints with Q20 oil and should get rid of that horrible sound immediately.
The chain on the motor of your garage door is the fourth part that starts giving problems when rusted. It struggles to bend by the kinks and also struggles to lift the door when trying to open it. Depending on how long the chain was left unattended for and the amount of damage that accrued will depend whether you'll need to replace it or if you're fortunate enough to get away by oiling it. This type of issue is better to attend to sooner than later as a garage door motor chain is not a cheap part to buy or to get installed by a technician.
Fifth and last part that can break is the spring of your garage door. If this does happen you will definitely need to get an experienced technician to help you as it's a specialized and dangerous job to replace garage door springs. A technician uses specialized equipment and certain techniques to remove the spring as it's under tremendous tension and if done incorrectly can snap and really hurt someone. So I cannot stress it enough that a qualified garage door spring repair technician in Cape Town is paramount to use to assist with this dangerous task.
Other than the above mentioned maintenance services there isn't much that needs to be done accept taking care of it. Making sure your kids don't hang on the door when it's opening and giving it a good rinse with the hosepipe you know things like that.


