5 excellent reasons you should call an expert for your garage door repairs

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Whether you are building a new home or undertaking a major home renovation project, you can certainly do a lot of the work yourself. However, more technical or skilled jobs should be left to experienced technicians. Most people agree will agree that you should stick to what you know best!

This theory is also true when considering garage door repairs. When it comes to repairing your garage door system, we’d like to give you 5 excellent reasons you ought to choose a garage door professional instead of attempting a DIY.

#1 Experience

Not being a garage door technician, you probably don’t know how the entire system works, how each hardware component interacts with another, or how the counterweight system makes it easy for you to lift your garage door with just one hand. Your garage door technician does, that is why we urge you to put your tools back on your workbench and pick up your phone to call a reliable local business that will ensure the work is done correctly thus saving you from extra costly repairs!

A garage door technician is trained to repair your garage door, and they also know special tricks of the trade only gained with experience. This experience enables the technician to correctly balance the door, ensure that it is weathertight, and remove any harmful friction that will cause various door system components to wear prematurely.

#2: Safety

Garage doors can be heavy. Very heavy. Especially when you consider the different aspects like the year it was manufactured or the type of material was used in its construction, your garage door may be more than you can handle. Add in other factors like the oversized double garage door and a system that wasn’t maintained regularly, and you soon find a situation that shouldn’t be handled by anyone other than the professionals.

Never forget the fact that your garage door is the largest moving component in your home. Unfortunately, hundreds of people forget that fact each year and end up seriously injured when trying to repair their garage doors by themselves. Doors have fallen on homeowners due to a failure of lifting cables or a broken spring. To get an idea of the weight of a door, consider this: a single door made with a steel exterior, that is 1 ¾" (45‑mm) thick and 9' (2.7 m) wide, can weigh from 130 to 175 lb. (60 to 80 kilos). For a double garage door, that weight is understandably doubled, varying from 60 to 350 lb. (10 to 160 kilos). When a garage door specialist arrives on site and sees the state of the garage door system, he or she can recognize the dangers that might occur, thus protecting themselves from possible injury.

#3 It can save you time and even money!

A garage door specialist who has a well‑established business in your area will know what they are talking about when you speak with them and they will clearly explain to you what they are doing. Garage door repair is not a job that can be learned overnight. Plus, when you hire an experienced technician to repair your garage door, you will have more time to do the things that really matter to you. You will also need to consider that with their many years of experience, a technician will know how to pinpoint any problems and get the job done much faster than you could on your own. Rest assured knowing that their only goal is to ensure the long‑term operation of your garage door.

On the other hand, if may you think you're saving money trying to repair your own door or garage door opener, but it may end up being more expensive for you. Especially if your operating system is still under warranty, doing the work yourself could void the warranty making you fully responsible for the cost if you damage a major component of your door mechanism.

In addition to being able to do repairs more rapidly than you can, your garage door professionals have insurance that covers both personal injury and damage to your property.

#4 Peace of mind

When you try to repair your garage door system yourself, you run the risk of improperly or incompletely making the repair. Thus, you may actually cause the problem to reoccur in a short amount of time, or you may cause further damage to the system that will then need to be repaired on top of the initial problem. This is especially true when the case of the problem is the electric garage door opener.

Conscientious professionals, who have a well‑deserved reputation for garage door repair, are able to provide you with a written guarantee of their work. This will include the parts they have changed, often for a period of 12 months. They are not afraid to formally commit themselves to do a careful job that corresponds with requirements. All work deserves to be done well, and an expert always does it right the first time!

#5 Responsibility in case of accidents

Another good reason to hire experts to repair your garage door is concerns about your level of responsibility if the repairs are done incorrectly. If you try to repair your garage door yourself, and an unfortunate incident occurs, then you will be personally liable for the damage. Why run the risk of finding yourself in such a situation? Trust the highly qualified technicians because they know garage door systems like no one else.

Don’t delay, call today!

Please, don’t hesitate to contact us toll‑free at 1-800-780-3883 for any repairs you may need for your garage door system, whether large or small. We know garage doors and garage door openers inside and out. We will be able to advise you of the problem and explain the best decision to make regarding repairs while still respecting your budget. We can also email a quote for your consideration. Another option is to visit us at our showroom.

If you are interested in a new garage door instead of repairing the old, use our Design Centre to select the style that suits you best. Need inspiration? Then peruse our image gallery to find a lot of attractive ideas.

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