What Are The Different Garage Door Roller Options?

Join Check A Pro Joe as he sits down with Adam Greer from EZ Lift Garage Doors and More on the Check A Pro Radio Show. This enlightening episode centers around one of the most critical elements of the garage door - the garage door rollers.

Adam emphasized the critical role of rollers in the function of any garage door. However, not all rollers are made equal. The episode elucidates the primary differences and features of different roller types - from a lower end that drags to a high-end nylon roller, likened to the Cadillac of garage door rollers. Adam categorically pointed out that your choice of a roller can significantly impact your garage door's performance, longevity, and efficiency.

The episode didn't just halt on identifying roller types; it also dived into the significant details you need to know about each roller type. Adam comparatively explained the life span, maintenance requirements, effects on your garage doors, and so on between different rollers.

But that's not half all it offers. The episode also featured some practical tips for homeowners regarding garage door maintenance. One standout advice from Adam is that swapping out a basic roller for a premium one, even in a default builder-grade door, can dramatically increase your door's longevity and decrease the noise it generates.

Just about anyone with a garage door will find this episode profoundly helpful. At the end of the episode, discover why you should contact Adam and his team at EZ Lift Garage Doors and More for your garage door needs.

 

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Episode Transcript

(00:01):
Check A Pro Joe here on the Check A Pro Radio Show Adam Greer from EZ Lift
Garage Doors and More is joining me here on the radio show hey Adam hey how
are you doing i'm doing great,
rollers rollers are critical for the
garage door correct critical yeah
it's it doesn't work without out of it it'll drag

(00:24):
but rollers uh you have the
tracks and the rollers are in there doing their job but if you don't have a
middle i come to a house where the rollers off it's broken but the axle is still
in there and so it'll still move but it will sound like uh murderers going on
there are different types of rollers some better than others and actually Actually,

(00:46):
some people in the garage door business, such as yourself,
have told me about lower end rollers that almost just drag.
And then there's the higher end nylon rollers, which are like the Cadillac.
Let's talk about the different ones. How many different types are there?
Really, there's three different types.
The nylon has a couple different categories. Some categories,

(01:09):
a little bit. But your first level of basic contra-undergrade is a plastic wheel
on an axle. Absolutely no barriers.
And those are actually recommended to be changed in one year by the manufacturer.
And people have those for six years. It's amazing. And they're just,
they don't roll. They are the draggers.
Once they wear out, get a little bit of gummed up in them, then when the door

(01:32):
transitions onto the horizontal, that's when it matters.
In the verticals, you're not really going to have an issue. sheet all
the way now transitions onto those rollers
once the door shifts that's where you want it
to roll and so those plastic rollers
are just dragging through those whole resolves and so that's that's the first

(01:52):
level and that's the cheapest crap out there next level is going to be your
steel bearing steel rollers with bearings the next level of contractor gray
those are good for about four years to six years depends on what manufacturer
but roughly four four years,
and then they're going to wear out too.
The problem with them on top of just wearing out is it's friction.

(02:14):
It's metal to metal. So that creates its own problems.
And then finally you want to get into your more premium professional grade,
which is going to be nylons.
You have a basic nylon roller that's usually around 15,000 cycles.
That's what they're good for.
A cycle is one open and close. That's a cycle.

(02:35):
So how many times you open and close in a day that's how you figure that out
it didn't get up to even 200,000 cycles.
Um then real real amazing bearing
set in them it's you know more scientifically built than
just throwing some rollers in the wheel so and then
there's a there's a level in between i think it was a hundred thousand cycle as
well uh but yeah so at minimum you

(02:57):
want to do the 15 000 cycles and people do
an average of a thousand cycles a year the 1200 cycles that's the average home
so figure it out from there pretty you know 12 to 15 years somewhere in that
range not if we have to really worry about them um but that's keeping them lubricated
they don't self-lubricate so if you want to last their expected lifespan.

(03:20):
Keep your door made of tape so that's the
trick there I had a
garage door company come out a few years ago to replace my garage doors
and they must have put in the best rollers do you
think think that's true they uh well again
i'm not sure what the guy put in i
don't know who it is i would i think we put in the 20

(03:42):
000 to 15 to 20 000 cycle so you probably do for uh for a return visit from
that said company that you can go with rollers but we were just yeah no i will
say easy lift garage doors and more and Adam with all joking aside did a fantastic
job installing my two new new garage doors a number of years ago now,
but they're still new.

(04:04):
I mean, except for the little dent from my son.
He's an adult now. He was a teenager. He kind of bumped it and kind of dented my beautiful new.
I mean, when I say new everybody, I mean, these doors were no more than three weeks old.
I don't think they were even a week old. Maybe not. And Adam and his team came
out recently to do a maintenance. and wouldn't you agree? Doors look brand new. I mean, they're solid.

(04:31):
Yeah. Yeah. Still working one. So. Yeah. It's the difference.
If you had steel rollers or plastic, it wouldn't be.
Yeah. And no matter what, if my rollers were to wear out, I would not cheap out.
My garage doors are more of a premium product and they're very heavy compared
to like a builder grade. Right.
So I'm going to really want the better rollers. yeah yeah and yeah there's again

(04:57):
there's that's a conversation we could have with any,
sometimes you look at the quality of the door if the door has
you know doesn't even have 15 years left in
it and that's just because of age then don't spend the money for them obviously
for the height it's in uh but if you've got 20 30 years and you're still on
your door that may shape like your newsletter yeah go for the big ones for the

(05:18):
high cycle i also have a tip and I'm not sure if this is something that Adam would back me up on,
but let's say you bought a new home and there's a builder gate, a great garage door,
which is going to be one of those light doors. Everyone almost feels like aluminum foil.
It's not necessarily a bad door. It kind of does its job.

(05:38):
But Adam, would you agree that just changing out the rollers to a premium product,
which aren't that expensive, is going to change that garage door dramatically?
It'll be quieter and it'll probably last longer.
Yes, absolutely. If you have a brand new home, the odds of it having quality
rollers, first half of the quality door is slim.

(06:00):
And because of that, quality rollers usually won't have it. They'll often have
the plastic or the steel.
And so day one, you move in, have us there, or you unpack and we can get you
straightened out. It's really that big of a difference.
Friction, that moving wall, you know, I wrote a chapter in your book years ago called The Moving Wall.
And people would understand that there's a

(06:22):
lot of weight every time that thing moves so keeping
it well maintained and keeping it working as friction-free as possible
is definitely uh the only way to protect that door Adam as always this has been
a fantastic conversation for your garage door needs everybody contact Adam and
his team over at Easy Lift Garage Doors and more all of his contact information
is located in the show notes Adam thank you thank you.