Does The Extreme Heat Affect Our Garage Doors?

"You can get thousands of miles out of a vehicle, and so the same thing goes too for a garage door."  

- Adam Greer, Garage Door Expert

 

Here is Houston we get HOT!  Our garages get hot!  On the Check A Pro Radio Show today a listener wrote in with the following question - "Does The Extreme Heat Affect Our Garage Doors?"

Well, that's a great question.  Here to answer that question is a garage door expert, Adam Greer from EZ Lift Garage Doors & More.

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Episode Transcript

(00:00):
Here in Houston,
it can be really hot and our garage doors and our garage door,
springs and all the parts actually,
uh,
within the garage door system can be affected.
I've asked a garage door expert,
a good friend of mine,
Adam Greer from EZ lift garage doors to join me here on the program today to talk about what the heat in this part of the country can do to our garage doors.
Adam,

(00:21):
how are you?
I'm doing great,
Joe.
Thanks for having me.
It's great to have you here.
I've known you for a long time.
You've been doing this for decades and decades.
You're actually my garage door guy.
You install great garage doors.
So,
um,
so,
so you're definitely the go to guy when I've got some questions.
So,
here at the radio program,
a question,
cross the desk.

(00:42):
Uh,
how does the heat affect the springs and the other garage door components?
Well,
that's an interesting question and there's,
there's a lot of answers there.
Uh,
the heat doesn't really affect springs,
weather doesn't really affect springs so much.
The,
the metal is,
you know,
steel is steel.
Um,
what it can do is make the door stiffer,

(01:02):
things like the jam,
swelling and contracting,
you know,
on the different weather extremes,
uh,
can affect with more functions,
uh,
rollers,
different types of rollers.
How heavy you're,
if you're heavy gooping in with grease,
that's a,
that's a,
in the winter,
that's a bad thing that stiffens up.
But in the summer it makes that stuff,
you know,
just liquid almost sometimes and you go in,

(01:25):
it's just a disgusting mess.
So,
it's to say that the heat necessarily affects the spring,
um,
cycle life is cycle life.
And,
uh,
um,
but keeping things maintenance and using the proper grease for the spring for the rollers,
things like that.
That's,
that's what matters in the heat.
Uh,
you don't want the thick acts of grease stuff.
Uh,
you want some,

(01:45):
um,
you know,
some,
uh,
non,
uh,
cakey type grease,
different,
there's lots of different options but you wanted to,
uh,
be free but you don't want to get,
uh,
you don't want to dry up.
Yeah.
So,
really the answer to the question is,
um,
keep your garage door system.
I like to call it a system because it's not just the door,

(02:06):
there's rollers and there's cables and there's the track and there's a spring and it goes on and on,
the whole system needs to be maintained.
Right.
Yes.
Yeah,
there's bearings,
there's bearing plates,
rollers have bearing,
lots of,
lots of parts.
All the hinge barrels need to be lubricated.
Uh,
there's a lot of maintenance.
Yes.
Isn't the garage door much like a car where someone says I get 300,000 miles out of my cars because I maintain them over time.

(02:34):
Isn't it true for a garage door?
Because those panels they'll last forever.
Right.
As long as they're taken care of.
Yeah.
I mean,
that's actually a great,
uh,
analogy.
Um,
if you just drive that car till it quit signing,
it's gonna quit early.
But if you pay attention to your oil changes and all those maintenance issues,
you can get thousands and hundreds of thousands of miles out of a vehicle.

(02:57):
Um,
and so the same thing goes too for a garage door.
Uh,
there are parts that do need to replace regardless,
just like a timing belt in a car that 100,000 miles.
It's time to start looking at that,
uh,
plastic rollers one year.
You should replace your rollers,
steel rollers.
4 to 6 years.
Nylon rollers.
Yeah,
6 to 10 years.
And it,
and again,

(03:18):
the better you maintain any of those three options,
the longer they will last.
Uh,
but so you have parts that need to be replaced just on schedule and then if you're not maintaining those schedules get altered,
uh,
by poor maintenance.
Yeah.
No,
it's really that simple.
So,
it's really hot here in Houston.
Uh,
the overall,

(03:38):
uh,
thing to do is to basically keep it maintained regardless of how hot or cold.
It is in your garage.
Adam.
Thank you so much for joining me today on the program.
I really appreciate it.
My pleasure.
Thanks for having me.
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