Garage Door Safety is Important
Garage door safety is important.
Your garage doors are important to your home. They provide security as well as, if attractive, add to the external street view of your home. Garage doors like everything in your home have a checklist to sure that they are maintained properly and are safe for you and your family.
Here are some features you need to be aware of as it pertains to you and your families safely utilizing your garage doors.
Springs
Eventually, all springs wear out and break, even high quality steel springs. This is something you should not try to fix on your own. It could be dangerous and cause injury. Have a garage door professional inspect and replace the springs, if necessary. If the door has two springs it is best to replace both. If the cables that attach the spring system to the bottom bracket on either side of the garage door are frayed or have worn strips hanging lose, your cables are in danger of breaking. Again have the cables immediately inspected by a garage door professional. Manual winding of a torsion spring during garage door installation or adjustment is extremely difficult and potentially dangerous.
Garage Door Openers
A faulty reversing mechanism on your garage door opener could cause damage to your car or even injure a child or pet that inadvertently gets caught in the path of the closing door. All automatic garage door openers manufactured and installed after 1991 are required by law to have a reversing mechanism. The reversing mechanism activated by contact can prevent most damage or injury caused by the door closing automatically. If your garage door opener is not functioning properly, you should have a garage door professional inspect it. The photo eyes that are connected to the bottom of the track and reverse the door when the infrared beam is broken, can easily if bumped or jarred become disabled. Be sure that your garage door opener has been attached to your door with an opener reinforcement bracket. If not installed properly this could cause damage to your doors.
Wall Control Panel
Be sure these are mounted out of reach of children. Accidents can occur when children play with the wall control panel. You should mount this at least 5 feet above the door.
Access Code
Many homes have been burglarized by thieves using universal controls that will open your garage door by reading the access code in the opener. Having rolling code technology installed is another way to protect your home and family. This technology changes the code automatically after every use. Your garage door professional can explain how easy this is for you to use.
We at A Plus Garage Doors hope this information was helpful to you. If you are looking to have new garage doors installed, repaired, or upgrading your technology please give us a call. We offer experienced service at affordable prices. Please check out our website at www.aplusgaragedoorsal.com to learn more about us. If you living in Eastern Shore, please call us at 251 626-0773 or if you live in South Baldwin County call us at 251 971-3331.