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Lubricate an Ontario garage door every three months, not the six months most guides recommend. The single most important application is in October, before the first hard frost, while temperatures are still mild enough for the lubricant to flow and [...]

Most garage door rollers need replacing every 10 to 15 years, but the material decides almost everything. Nylon rollers with sealed ball bearings last 10 to 15 years or roughly 20,000 cycles. Steel rollers with unsealed bearings last 5 to [...]

Test your garage door's auto-reverse every month. Every major opener manufacturer prints this instruction in the owner's manual, and it applies for the entire life of the opener. The full monthly routine takes about two minutes and covers six checks: [...]

Most residential garage doors need a professional service once a year, plus a handful of quick checks you do yourself in between. The working schedule is: a two minute safety test every month, a balance test every three months, lubrication [...]

Whether you should replace garage door rollers yourself depends mostly on where the roller sits on the door and whether the tension side of the spring system is involved. Rollers on the bottom sections, away from the spring cables, are [...]

Garage door rollers usually fail for one of a handful of predictable reasons: dry or missing lubricant, moisture and rust, daily wear from heavy use, poor track alignment, or simple material fatigue as the rollers reach the end of their [...]

If you are trying to figure out what type of garage door rollers you have, the answer usually comes down to four main options: steel, nylon, plastic, and ball bearing rollers, each built with different materials and stem lengths. Most [...]

Garage door rollers wear out faster than most Ontario homeowners expect, especially with our mix of humid summers, icy winters, and constant temperature swings. The short answer is that garage door rollers usually need replacing every seven to ten years, [...]