Spring is a good time to check your Garage Door Springs for wear and tear. - Greenfield Garage Door Repair

Temperature has an effect on the wearing down of springs, and Spring is the best time to check for this imbalance and make repairs. As temperatures increase, the imbalance only gets worse.

Colder temperatures aren’t the best time to work on garage doors, but spring is the perfect time of the year to call your Milwaukee and Greenfield Garage door repair specialists to fix those springs.

A failing spring will make the door heavier to lift and doesn’t seem like a big deal at first. But replacing a few springs will save the you money, instead of having to replace the entire Garage door System down the road. As tension on the Garage door system builds. Wear and tear on the physical garage door will be visible, with scrapes signaling imbalanced springs caused by friction. As time and temperature increase, the problem will become worse.

While torsion springs, the horizontal springs at the head of the door, wrap around a shaft and aren’t likely to cause too much damage to their surroundings, extension springs, at the side rails, certainly can if they were installed without their own safety features. Both types of springs rely on tension to work. As your garage door closes, the force exerted on the spring through the garage door cables wind the spring. This stored up energy is then released as the spring unwinds when the door is opened making it easier to open your garage door.

Since the spring is under constant tension, a sudden failure can cause the spring to break apart violently. Without the right safety measures in place, a spring failure can cause serious injuries to anyone or anything nearby

A professional garage door repair technician will be able to help see if your garage door springs are showing dangerous signs of aging.

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