Safety & Maintenance
Your home is your castle and your garage door is the iron gate. Protect your family and secure your home with garage door and garage door opener installation, maintenance, and repair from Five Star Garage Door.
Garage doors are often the largest moving part in any home. With daily use, garage door parts can become worn and if left unrepaired, very dangerous. Keep your garage door working safely with an annual maintenance visit from the trained professionals of Five Star Garage Door.
In between scheduled Five Star Garage Door maintenance visits, make monthly garage door and garage door opener inspections a part of your family’s safety routine. Set aside a few moments each month to self inspect your garage door and opener to ensure maximum safety. If you notice any wear or suspect there is a problem, contact Five Star Garage Door. Installing or repairing garage doors and garage door openers yourself can be dangerous and is not recommended
Please carefully review the following notes before operating your garage door or performing your monthly garage door and garage door opener inspection.
Garage doors are often the largest moving part in any home. With daily use, garage door parts can become worn and if left unrepaired, very dangerous. Keep your garage door working safely with an annual maintenance visit from the trained professionals of Five Star Garage Door.
In between scheduled Five Star Garage Door maintenance visits, make monthly garage door and garage door opener inspections a part of your family’s safety routine. Set aside a few moments each month to self inspect your garage door and opener to ensure maximum safety. If you notice any wear or suspect there is a problem, contact Five Star Garage Door. Installing or repairing garage doors and garage door openers yourself can be dangerous and is not recommended
Please carefully review the following notes before operating your garage door or performing your monthly garage door and garage door opener inspection.
- Check the garage door springs, cables, rollers, pulleys, and all hardware for fraying or wear. Worn hardware should be replaced to prevent breaking. If your garage door has two springs, always replace both springs at the same time.
- Garage doors with extension springs require a safety cable. If you have a door with extension springs but no safety cable, call Five Star Garage Door for an inspection.
- All garage doors including older models should move smoothly. If your door opens and closes awkwardly, your spring system may be out of balance.
- Garage door springs, brackets, cables, and other pieces of hardware are under extreme tension. Only trained and qualified technicians should adjust or loosen any garage door materials.
- Keep the owner’s manuals for your garage door and garage door opener hanging near your door for easy reference.
- Regularly lubricate the moving parts of your garage door, being careful to avoid any plastic pieces such as rollers and idler bearings.
- Periodically test the balance of your garage door. If you have a garage door opener, use the release mechanism and operate the door by hand. You should be able to lift the door smoothly and with little resistance and it should stay open three or four feet above the floor. If the door does not have it adjusted by a qualified Five Star Garage Door technician.
- In the event of an obstruction, your garage door should readily reverse to avoid damage. Improper force settings can cause permanent damage to a child, pet or object that crosses paths with a closing garage door. To ensure the force setting is adjusted accurately, you should have your garage door tested regularly by a Five Star Garage Door certified technician.
- Keep your remote controls locked up. If you park your car outside the garage, always lock the car door to prevent potential intruders from gaining access to your garage and your home.
- Watch your garage door until it completely closes to be sure no person or animal gets trapped under the closing door or enters your home as it descends.
- Garage door openers are designed to reverse direction when encountering an obstruction. If your door does not reverse, the opener’s sensitivity adjustment may be improperly set or your door opener may not have a reversing feature. Have a trained technician from Five Star Garage Doors repair the setting or install a garage door opener with a reverse feature installed.
- All garage door openers manufactured in the United States after 1993 are required to include a second safety feature. If your opener lacks a second safety feature, contact Five Star Garage Doors for a new garage door opener.
- Garage doors and garage door openers are not toys. Discuss garage door safety and explain the dangers of being trapped or hurt with your children.