Garage Door Maintenance

[bdcardinal]

From Chamberlain bout maintaining their openers.

 

[dishdude]

What kind do you have ? All the ones I've seen attach to the face and the "hinge" itself is fully exposed.

Standard ones that are surface mount and fully exposed, I only brought it up because they are often overlooked.

 

[Doc8404]

I had my garage door adjusted and lubed the other day. The worker sprayed some lubrication on the spiral springs above the door as well as the door hinges/rollers.

Same here.

 

[Egg_Head]

Check your rollers, upgraded mine this year. Huge difference in smoother operation and much quieter.
https://www.creativedoor.com/blog/how-to-choose-between-steel-and-nylon-garage-door-rollers

 

[HangFire]

From Chamberlain bout maintaining their openers.

Thank you for that link. I figured out this part the hard way, nice to have confirmation:

Once every 3-4 years​

Re-lubricate the garage door opener rail. Using a clean rag, wipe away existing lubrication from the center rail and reapply a small layer of lubrication. We recommend using a white lithium based grease for all lubrication purposes.

For those who don't have this system, there's a toothed belt the runs parallel to a T cross-section rail that runs from the opener to near the door. A shuttle runs along it that pulls up the door. Lubing that interface (while being careful not to get lube on the nearby toothed belt) is essential to keeping my 2 decade old door opener motor happy.