It is a particular note that most house owners have grown overly weary of, and that is the metallic screaming of an annoying garage door. It begins with a weak squeak, then changes to a rhythmic thud, and finally turns to a grinding roar, which is capable of waking everyone in the house in the early morning of the day. Some may say that the sounds of a banging garage door are simply a minor annoyance; however, when it comes to the maintenance of the home, noise is a communicator. It is the friction, vibration, and mechanical stress. A squeaky door is a door that is wearing itself out and unless something is done about it, the noise will one day result in a total mechanical breakdown.
A banging door is also a common and initial sign of a more underlying mechanical problem that a professional specialist has to resolve. A loose screw may only produce a rattle, but a loud bang is normally an indicator of a serious tension failure. It is during such emergent times that it dawns on the homeowners that the fix garage door spring systems should be repaired as soon as possible before the door turns into a hazardous, non-portable weight. At Garage Door On, we do not simply cover up the noise with a little oil, we carry out an all-over process of silence and smoothness. We consider the mechanics of the motion to find in which parts the harmony has been destroyed, so that your door may be silent and safe for many years to come.
The message behind the Noise: What Is Your Garage Door Telling You?
We must identify the source of the noise before we are able to fix it. Various sounds indicate various mechanical breakdowns. In Garage Door on, our technicians have been trained to listen to your door as the first step in diagnosing your door.
Squealing and Screeching: Metal on metal The high-pitched squeaks or screeches normally mean that there is no lubrication on the rollers or the hinges. It may also be used to denote the rollers are starting to seize up and thus they have to slide along the track instead of rolling.
Grinding and Scraping: The sound usually comes as a result of the door panels or the hardware rubbing against the tracks. It is a sign of a severe dislocation or that the tracks are bent or warped as such.
Banging and Clunking: Banging may recurringly tend to be a sign that the door is out of balance. Also it may imply that the hinges of the garage door panels are not bending properly and therefore they are snapping into position.
Vibrating and Rattling: When the door vibrates during the movement, then it is probable that the mounting hardware is vibrated loose. This vibration may cause the door to come off the tracks altogether, which is dangerous in its consequences.
The use of high-quality rollers in the dampening of noise.
Upgrading the rollers is one of the best methods through which Garage Door On convert a loud door. Standard builder grade garage doors are supplied with ball bearingless rollers as a standard. These rollers are also known to be very noisy and they also do not last long.
In a case of a silent and smooth upgrade, we usually suggest changing to high grade nylon rollers with closed ball bearings.
Nylon is Quieter by Nature: Steel absorbs vibration, nylon does not.
Sealed Bearings: The typical rollers are open, i.e. collect dust, hair, and grit and this ultimately wears down the metal. A low pressure bearing is used to maintain the lubrication inside and the debris outside and this allows the bearing to rotate smoothly and without creating any noise tens of thousands of times.
The Effect of the Garage Door Opener.
When you hear a loud cracking of a chain-saw noise coming down at the top of your garage door, but your garage door hardware is in good condition, the most probable suspect is the opener. Older type openers are usually chain-driven, which is merely a chain of metal running along a metal rail. The design is noisy in nature.
Garage Door On focuses on the installation of ultra-quiet of Belt-Drive Openers. These systems have a steel-reinforced rubber belt in the place of a metal chain. The effect of the combination of both is a near silent door, which is aided by a DC motor, which fires up and shuts more slowly than the conventional AC motors. This is very useful especially in houses where a bedroom has a garage house within or beside it.
Professional Track Alignment: The Secret of Motionless Motion.
Also the most accurate rollers and openers will make lots of noise when the tracks are not upright. The house may subside over time, or a car or a garbage can may bump the tracks and leave them displaced by a few millimeters.
When technicians of Garage Door On approach your house, they apply accuracy measurements and laser levels to make sure that the tracks are perfectly parallel. When the tracks are slightly toed-in or out, the rollers will contact the metal, so that they make a grinding noise and undue strain on the motor. we also examine the radius of the track– the convex part– so as to ascertain that the change of the vertical into the horizontal movement is smooth.
Vibration Isolation: The Finer Details of Vibration.
The sound that you hear in the house, in most instances, is not the sound of the garage door but the vibration that is passing through the framing of the house. Since the garage door tracks and the garage door opener are permanently fixed to the ceiling joists, all the movement is felt in the entire construction of the house.
In order to fight this, Garage Door On makes use of vibration isolation kits. Rubber bushings and vibration dampeners and other gadgets are installed between the motor and the ceiling, the tracks and the wall. It is these rubber parts that absorb the kinetic energy so that it does not convert your ceiling into a giant speaker.
Complete lubrication: More than a can of spray.
The majority of the house owners are operating on the belief that anything wrong with their noises can be remedied by a spray of WD-40. WD-40 is not a lubricant, as we have already seen in our previous manuals, but a cleaner. Real silence requires industrial standard lubricants of silicone or lithium, which are applied at the chosen points.
Lubrication is applied to our technicians:
the Torsion Shaft Bearings: At this point, the high-tension shaft rotates.
The Hinges: Each drawing point of a fold in the panels.
The Springs: To avoid the noise of binding of the coils when expanding and contracting.
The Opener Rail: Making sure that the trolley slides without friction.
Why Should you Trust Garage Door On to Transform You?
A garage door that is not screaming is an indicator of a good, well-kept house. It will make your property more valuable, it will make your everyday life more comfortable, and you will not have the shock of having your door broken wide open in the middle of the night. Our technical knowledge and our devotion to the local community are what we are proud to call our strengths within Garage Door On. We do not believe in short-term solutions, we believe in long-lasting solutions in engineering solutions.
Our team is well licensed, insured and highly experienced in all the makes and models of garage doors. We know what environmental conditions in Florida are the causes of noise like rusting in salt air, swelling of wooden doors in high humidity, etc., and we adjust our solutions to them.
Available 24/7, so that you can relax.
Your door is slightly squeaking and you have the need to fix it but you feel it will only get worse as time passes or your door has suddenly turned into a loud door and you are apprehensive about using it, we are here to help. Our 24/7 service is provided due to the fact that mechanical problems do not work by time.
You may call Garage Door On 813-461-6009, or 727-725-2888 or you can e-mail us at [email protected]. We also have 24/7 services so that you see that your home is calm and your garage door is as smooth as the world.
Visit Our Local Service Hubs
Our presence throughout the region boasts of two strategically placed branches. This enables us to give the homeowners quick-service response when they need to have a noise diagnosis or emergency repair.
Our local service rating can be found here:
Branch Tampa:Tampa branch location map.
Largo Branch:Largo branch map.
Summary: Take Back Your Peace and Quiet.
You do not need to have a garage door that reminds you of a freight train. Through a blend of quality hardware upgrades, accuracy in alignment of tracks and current vibration isolation methods, Garage Door On will be able to turn your noisy entrance to a silent and butter-smooth running investment.
A noisy door is an investment that you make into the life of your entire garage system. Less vibration and less friction also translates to the fact that your springs, motor and cables will last much longer. Wait not until the noise becomes complete breakdown. Call Garage Door On now and have the luxury of a noiseless house door.