Industrial Overhead Door: Preventive Maintenance, It’s Pays !

The maintenance of your building's overhead doors must be taken seriously. Your employees' safety and the smooth running of your operations (receiving/shipping) depend on it. GARAGA, garage doors, Inc. (www.garaga.com ) recommends that you call an expert installer to look after the maintenance of your sectional garage doors.

 

Why do they break all the time?

A garage door system is an important component of a building. It is important to understand what might be happening if the system is not performing according to the user's expectations.

• The accessories that have been installed are not appropriate for the usage of the door system (actual number of operation cycles has been underestimated).
• The number of cycles of the torsion springs is not appropriate for the frequency of use (springs break more often).
• Inappropriate operation by users.

 

How to reduce maintenance costs?

If you select the components best suited to the conditions of operation of your doors and do regular maintenance before they break, you will significantly reduce your annual maintenance costs. In the Garaga web site, they show that the incremental cost of your initial investment would be about 10% to insure that you have the components best suited to your operating conditions. Will you have a quick “payback” on your additional investment? Look at the annual maintenance costs of your doors plus the indirect costs related to a malfunction (ex.: inoperative door at certain times) and you will come to the conclusion that the additional initial investment is well worth it.

 

To help you determine how often you should perform preventive maintenance on your doors, we have divided the sectional doors in 3 categories:

• Type A buildings which require maintenance every 3 months (more than 7,500 cycles per year).
  Examples: apartment building or condominiums, transit companies.
• Type B buildings which require maintenance every 6 months (between 3,000 and 7,500 cycles per year).
  Examples: auto repair shops, car dealerships, distribution centers.
• Type C buildings which require maintenance every 12 months (less than 3,000 cycles per year).
  Examples: municipal garages, fire stations, warehouses

 

What are the maintenance costs?

You can enter into an annual maintenance contract with your overhead garage door specialist. You can also pay for the work done on an hourly basis.

 

In all cases, it is preferable to set up a technical file for each of your sectional garage doors. By having all the technical data available on file, your garage door specialist will be able to respond promptly in case of unforeseen incidents.

 

 

Comments

[Bill]

Great article. You can't stress enough that a garage door has mechanical/moving parts that require routine maintenance. I.E. proper lubrication. Think of your car engine. It has moving parts that cause friction and your oil lubricates these parts. Proper oil changes help in preventing premature wear and tear. Garage door parts are no different. They require regular maintenance as well. Don't wait for it to break or become a problem before you have it serviced. Catch it before it becomes a problem.

[Alexandria Garage Door Repair]

Great article, i have a quick question. What category do you think a regular home that opens the garage door 4-5times a day should be in terms of preventive maintenance? 3months, 6months, 12months? Please advise