After a weary day in office, you come back to your home in the evening, wishing nothing but peace in your mind finally. But the moment you bring your car close to that garage door of your house, you realize it is just not opening.
This is when your patience level hits its limit and you realize that you ought to lose a great amount of time in just trying to place your vehicle inside the garage. Pretty stressful, we know.
But no sweats! These are just a few wear and tear issues that can happen occasionally, and as difficult as they may look sometimes to get fixed, they actually are not.
There can be plenty of reasons as to why this or other similar issues may happen, but the idea in this guide is to explore a few points as to why they may occur and fix them from beforehand only in order to ensure that no such problem ever occurs to you.
Let’s take a look.
Installing New Weather Seals
Seals may become damaged sometimes due to reasons such as a scorching heat or frozen temperature ruining it. To overcome an issue such as this one, try reinstalling new weather seals.
This time when you reinstall a new weather seal, consider getting the ones that adjust accordingly with the weather.
These new types of weather seals can cost from around a hundred dollar to two hundred dollar in total and if you are lucky enough to get it at some negotiated price, that is even better.
Replacing Rotten Trims
Rotten trims in modern garage doors cannot protect your garage door against any bad weather so it suggests you replace them finally when you have realized they have become rotten. It is an easy fix and you can do it yourself.
All the tools you require are as following:
- Flat crowbar
- Claw hammer
- Diagonal pliers
- Miter saw
- Cedar trim, 3/4-inch by 3-inch by 96-inch
- Fir studs, 2-inch by 6-inch by 96-inch
- 2-inch nails
- Caulk
- Paint
Clean Up the Rusty Door Track
Some problems occur because of our ignorance only. When we have a rusty door track, it affects the overall elevation of a garage door and vice versa. If you clean your garage door track every now and then, the smoothness of your garage door will stay just like how it is and it will pull up and down very smoothly. This cleaning is something you should do yourself frequently and do not invest any extra cost on it unnecessarily.
Here’s how you can do it yourself:
- Remove the Grime and Dust
- Remove the Rust
- Apply a Coat of Primer
- Paint the Door
Tighten Up the Door Seal
Tightening up the door seal helps if there is any problem in pulling up or down the door seal.
Lose seal allows the debris or insects to creep in and that stores in unnecessary unrequited stuff to come inside the garage door which affects the smoothness of the garage door.
Check the Electric Side
Sometimes when the garage door does not open up, it is just the electrical side of the door which has become affected and it is a fault within it that is not letting the door open up. Oftentimes, getting a new remote may help but other times you may have to call an electrician so he could check the root of the problem.
Every once a month, a calling of an electrician may help and ensure there is no error happening frequently in the door from its electrical side. He, making a visit for about 10$-20$ won’t be a burden to you so financially, hence no sweats.
These problems in the electrical side of the door can occur very spontaneously and unexpectedly and the right way to resort to these issues is resolving them from beforehand only.
Final Thoughts
We have extracted the list of these points that you can learn from and understand how easy it can be sometimes to resort to these easy fixes by yourself – the idea is to anticipate the solution before the problem even occurs. This means, before you even come across an actual problem, the problem gets solved and there does not come a need for any major investment to take place.
Last but not the least, the points we have discussed in this guide are very straightforward and can be followed by most of us to avoid any such problems to occur, however, it does not mean that we pick up the tools and start resorting to every problem by ourselves that actually require a skillful person’s help or support. If we walk to this route, it can backfire on the idea of having an easy fix and instead become a big pain.
