Overhead Doors Seattle

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If the last time you needed to deal with a garage door repair or replacement in Seattle Washington was more than 20 years ago, you will be amazed by the improvements the overhead doors went through during the last 20 years, and not just in Seattle. It can be home owner who need new garage door in Washington, WA, or home owner who need a new garage door in Washington, WA, the overhead door industry went to many changes during the past twenty years. In our days, when the high-tech is surrounding us, and when it is much easier to produce high quality and improved doors and parts for home owners in Seattle, the selection is wide, and you can find the overhead door that will fit your needs in terms of material such as wood and steel, textures and colors. All you need to say what you want, and if you will find the right overhead door supplier in Seattle, they will help you find it.
You can find different levels of overhead doors insulation, window sections, different kinds of spring systems and different types of openers that can fit any overhead door in Seattle. And since the quality of the overhead doors improved, so does the need for maintenance, which is still crucial for the safe and smooth operation of the overhead door in Seattle WA, but became simpler and something that you can easily perform by doing it yourself with a basic knowledge and tools.

Insulated overhead door Seattle Washington

If your overhead door IN Seattle is attached to the house, you should aim for an insulated overhead door. But it does not mean that you shouldn’t if your garage is not attached and that you need to be looking for the cheapest overhead door in Seattle. Beside insulation from law temperatures and noise, the insulated overhead doors in Washington, whether it is an overhead door in Seattle  or even a commercial overhead door in Washington, WA, are usually stronger, and built to face tough conditions. A new insulated door is something that you do not want to deal with more than once every 10-20 years, so when you invest in high quality insulated door for your home or overhead garage door for warehouse in Seattle, you are getting high quality in return. But besides the long lasting overhead door, you also get a door that work smoother, and that its quality will be noticed every time you will use it.
When we replace overhead doors near Seattle which are older than 20 years, we always notice the surprises expression on the faces of those who purchase the door. An expression which is a mix of “It is amazing how smooth and silent it is”, and a “why did we wait that long before contacting garage door company in Seattle”?
When you also bring in consideration the fact that many overhead doors are installed in the front of the house, and that they take a large piece of the appearance, a new door improve the beauty of the house, and can give it a luxuries and shinning look. We at Seattle Garage Doors offer large selection of overhead doors, so each person in Seattle who is looking for a new overhead garage door will find what he is looking for.

Overhead Door Repair Seattle Washington

There are many kinds of overhead doors, and a qualified garage door repairman in Seattle, like the technicians of Seattle Garage Doors can deal with all of them. There are many potential problems that can occur, and prevent overhead door in Seattle form working properly. We will go over some of the most common issues, and try to shed some light on the problems, the causes, and how to deal with a busted roll up door in Seattle.

Overhead door spring repair Seattle

The spring system of overhead door in Seattle is the main force that lift, lower and balance the overhead door. Whether it is a torsion spring system, or extension spring system, if overhead door spring snapped, it prevent the door from working properly and can be dangerous. Before we will explain about the broken spring repair, we would like to repeat what we said earlier, that an overhead door with a broken spring, and it can be overhead door in Seattle Washington, or even a broken roll up door in Washington, should not be used, and that it should be repaired by a trained garage door repairman who has the tools and who is qualified to deal with overhead doors in Seattle Washington.
If you own an overhead door in Seattle, but you are not sure what type of spring system your overhead door use to move, look at the springs and check. If the springs are located on the top side of the door, when each spring is above each track, then your overhead door in Seattle is working with extension spring system. If the springs are located in the center area, and you see coil spring wrapped around a steel pipe (Shaft), then your door is working with torsion spring system. Seattle Garage Doors can repair or replace all types of overhead doors springs in Seattle, and can replace the spring for you even today.

Torsion Overhead spring repair Seattle

Usually the heavier and more massive overhead doors in Seattle are those who work with torsion spring system. If your torsion spring snapped, it will be difficult, and dangerous to try and open the door. The best thing you can do is to stop using the overhead door, and contact a garage door vendor Seattle to come and replace the spring for you. Try to locate a nearby overhead garage door technician, who offer same day service in Seattle.
If you will try and force overhead door to open or to close, or try and use the overhead door opener to that, the opener may burn and stop working, since it will need to lift the door without the help of the broken torsion spring, and that can be both dangerous, and can lead to a burn out of the opening unit. We have seen overhead doors openers in Seattle burned, due to misuse of the overhead door.

Overhead door opener repair Seattle

If you own an electric overhead door in or near Seattle, which is operated by an electric unit, and you are experiencing problems operating the door, you better read the following words. If overhead door opener in Seattle is having hard time lifting and closing the door, it does not necessarily mean that the problem is with the electric opener. To understand that, you need to understand first how the overhead doors in Seattle operate, and to learn a thing or two about the mechanism of overhead doors in Seattle.
To you, assuming you are not a trained overhead door technician, and that you never needed to fix overhead doors in Seattle, it may seem like the electric opener is what opening and closing your over the head door in Seattle, but the truth is that every over the head garage door which isn’t working properly manually – Without the electric opener - should not be operated to open or close the overhead door with the opener. The overhead opener of garages in Seattle Washington is only in charge of small amount of the force that lift and lower the door, and the garage spring system, which should be adjusted to fit your door, is what doing most of the lifting and the balancing. So if there is a problem opening and closing an overhead door in Seattle  when it is being operated manually, there will be a problem for the motor to open and close the door. Even if the electric opener can still open and close the door, do not use the door remotely, and contact an overhead door repairman in Seattle to fix the problem first.

Types of overhead door openers in Seattle

The most common types of openers, when it comes to overhead doors in Seattle Washington, is the chain drive opener, and the belt drive opener. There is another type of overhead door opener which is a screw driver opener, but during the past years we see less and less from that type installed on garage doors in Seattle.
The chain drive garage opener and the belt drive garage opener are considered to be strong and reliable and are very popular in garages around Seattle, when the difference between them is that the chain is working with a steel chain, and the belt operate with a rubber belt, which make it much quitter. If it is important for you to have a door in Seattle that work quietly, you may want to consider purchasing a belt drive opener (If the overhead door is bellow your bedroom or living room, or any reason that you want it to operate in silence). If the noise level does not bother to you, or if you prefer to hear when someone open or close your overhead door in Seattle, (Some people do prefer and want to know every time their overhead-door in Seattle is being used). Then you should go with the chain drive which is 10-20 percent cheaper than the belt drive garage opener.

Overhead door safety sensors

Every overhead door, whether it is an overhead door in Wahington, or overhead door in Seattle, WA, must include a safety feature. The federal law, regarding the automated overhead doors safety, demand from every opener manufacture, to include a safety feature that should be installed together with the overhead door electric opener. The electronic eye system, is there to “tell” the opener to stop and to reverse if something is blocking the way. If anything block the laser beam between the safety sensors, the garage opener will reverse the door to open position and by doing that protecting that thing from being hit by the door. We know of many cases when safety sensors in Seattle saved home owners in Seattle from damage, or even from injuries.
Since they are located at the bottom of each side of overhead doors in Seattle, the safety sensors can be the cause for many garage door issues, especially when they were installed by garage door repairman who isn’t trained enough. The reason for the issues is that the garage opener will not close your overhead door in Seattle, unless it is getting the signal that “tell” everything is ok, and it safe to close the door.
If you’re overhead door in Seattle is starting to close, and then reverse to open position (Sometime followed by a clicking noise form the opener that try signal that there is something wrong), it may be due to safety sensors problem. There are few things you can do to repair the sensors, and you can read about it in our article about “garage door opener repairs Seattle”. You can always call us for and we will try to assist you over the phone, or send someone to fix the safety sensors for you, since if you are located in Seattle, you are nearby to us, and we can fix every overhead door in Seattle WA today.

Overhead door maintenance Seattle Washington

For your safety, and for the perfect operation of the overhead door you use, maintain and lubricate your overhead door in Seattle twice a year. The overhead door maintenance, which include tune up and adjustments, is a relatively simple process, and when it is being done on time, whether in DIY overhead door repair, or by a trained garage door tech in Seattle the process protect the parts of the door, and improve the way it is moving.
It is important to mention, that if your overhead door in Seattle need repairs, lubricating it will not help. If your over-head door need part replacement, it is too late for maintenance. If the spring snapped, the opener is not responding, the roller is out of the track or the cable snapped, you can lubricate overhead door in Seattle as much as you want, it will not repair the problem, and the door will need to be repaired before it will be safe to use it again. If there is a problem with the way the door move, you need to use a qualified overhead door expert in Seattle to fix it first, and only then you or the tech can lubricate the door.
To read more about overhead maintenance in Seattle or anywhere else. You can watch this Video, or read this article about garage door maintenance.

 

Important Warning!

In most homes in Seattle, there is no larger moving object than the garage overhead door. And when something goes wrong, the door can easily become dangerous. If you overhead door in Seattle is broken, and it doesn’t matter if it is a broken torsion spring that need to be replaced, or if your overhead door in Seattle is out of tracks, you should stop using it, and you should get a trained  repairman in Seattle  Washington to fix it.
Continuing to use a broken overhead door is both dangerous, and something that can lead to damage to property and injuries. For example, if your overhead door in Seattle went out of track, and you decided to keep using it, you may break more parts, and the door may completely fell of the tracks, crashing anything below it. Whenever a problem accrue, stop using the door, and use a nearby garage door service in Seattle.

 

Do it yourself Overhead door repairs

We live in days when a lot of knowledge is available to us online. And you can find DIY Video for almost any topic on you tube, including overhead door repairs. There are DIY tutorials for almost any field, and you can learn how to replace overhead door torsion spring in Seattle, and how to refinish wood floor in WA. As much as we appreciate people who try to repair their overhead door in Seattle by DIY, we learned that some repairs are better to be left for the professional and experienced.

What kind of repairs can be done by DIY?

We cannot specify the exact repairs, since sometime maintaining overhead door in Seattle, which considered to be a simple job can get complicated if there are adjustments and parts replacement to be made, and sometime an extension spring replacement can take 15 minutes, and is relatively simple, but it can also take 2 hours and can become risky if there are some complication involved. The rule is simple, if you decided to repair your overhead door by DIY, and not to hire an expert who fix overhead doors in Seattle, always stay on the safe side of things. Generally, what we can recommend is to avoid things you don’t know or not sure about, and no matter what, do not take risks and put yourself at risk. No overhead door repairs worth your health and the safety of your family. If you are not sure, contact a nearby garage door supplier in Seattle.

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