Overhead Doors Kent

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If the last time you needed to deal with a garage door repair or replacement in Kent 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 Kent. It can be home owner who need new garage door in King County, or home owner who need a new garage door in King County, 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 Kent, 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 garage door supplier, 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 Kent. 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 Kent WA, but became simpler and something that you can easily perform by doing it yourself with a basic knowledge and tools.

Insulated overhead door Kent Washington

If your overhead door IN Kent 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 Kent. Beside insulation from law temperatures and noise, the insulated overhead doors in Washington, whether it is an overhead door in Kent  or even a commercial overhead door in King County, 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 Kent, 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 Kent 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 Kent”?
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 Good At Fixing Garage Doors offer large selection of overhead doors, so each person in Kent who is looking for a new overhead garage door will find what he is looking for.

Overhead Door Repair Kent Washington

There are many kinds of overhead doors, and a qualified garage door technician in Kent, like the technicians of Good At Fixing Garage Doors can deal with all of them. There are many potential problems that can occur, and prevent overhead door in Kent 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 broken garage door in Kent.

Overhead door spring repair Kent

The spring system of overhead door in Kent 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 Kent Washington, or even a sectional garage door repair in King county WA, should not be used, and that it should be repaired by a trained garage door technician who has the tools and who is qualified to deal with overhead doors in Kent Washington.
If you own an overhead door in Kent, 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 Kent 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. Good At Fixing Garage Doors can repair or replace all types of overhead doors springs in Kent, and can replace the spring for you even today.

Torsion Overhead spring repair Kent

Usually the heavier and more massive overhead doors in Kent 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 company Kent to come and replace the spring for you. Try to locate a local overhead garage door technician, who offer same day service in Kent.
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 garage door 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 Kent burned, due to misuse of the overhead door.

Overhead door opener repair Kent

If you own an electric overhead door in or near Kent, 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 Kent 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 Kent operate, and to learn a thing or two about the mechanism of overhead doors in Kent.
To you, assuming you are not a trained overhead door technician, and that you never needed to fix overhead doors in Kent, it may seem like the electric opener is what opening and closing your over the head door in Kent, 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 Kent 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 Kent  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 technician in Kent to fix the problem first.

Types of overhead door openers in Kent

The most common types of openers, when it comes to overhead doors in Kent 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 Kent.
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 Kent, 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 Kent 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 Kent, (Some people do prefer and want to know every time their overhead-door in Kent 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 Kent, or overhead door in Tacoma, 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 Kent saved home owners in Kent from damage, or even from injuries.
Since they are located at the bottom of each side of overhead doors in Kent, the safety sensors can be the cause for many garage door issues, especially when they were installed by garage door technician who isn’t trained enough. The reason for the issues is that the garage opener will not close your overhead door in Kent, unless it is getting the signal that “tell” everything is ok, and it safe to close the door.
If you’re overhead door in Kent 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 Kent”. 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 Kent, you are local to us, and we can fix every overhead door in Kent WA today.

Overhead door maintenance Kent Washington

For your safety, and for the perfect operation of the overhead door you use, maintain and lubricate your overhead door in Kent 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 Kent 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 Kent 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 garage door cable snapped, you can lubricate overhead door in Kent 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 Kent to fix it first, and only then you or the tech can lubricate the door.
To read more about overhead maintenance in Kent or anywhere else. You can watch this Video, or read this article about garage door maintenance.

 

Important Warning!

In most homes in Kent, 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 Kent 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 Kent is out of tracks, you should stop using it, and you should get a trained  technician in Kent  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 Kent 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 local garage door service in Kent.

 

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 garage door torsion spring, and how to refinish wood floor in WA. As much as we appreciate people who try to repair their overhead door in Kent 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 Kent, 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 Kent, 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 local garage door supplier in Kent.

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