Thursday, July 18, 2013

Safely Operating Your Garage Door

By Hedrick Lepsch


For most homeowners, their garage door is the largest and heaviest moving object in their home. For this reason, it is very important for families to talk about garage door safety.

Many people may find it silly to pay so much attention to garage doors. They may not pay much attention to their garage door, and so they think that there is no way that a garage door could be dangerous.

The garage door goes up when someone hits the button and it goes down again when the button is depressed a second time, and that is all that the homeowner cares about. Well, until it comes time to replace the garage door in Sacramento, or when repairs on the garage door are needed, then the homeowner pays much more attention to the garage door.

This is why it is crucial for families to begin a conversation about garage door maintenance and safety. If families are open about garage door safety, the accidents that involve garage doors will greatly diminish.

Second, you want to make sure that you are having a garage door installed that is going to give you your money's worth. There are a lot of people that have a hard time understanding that they will want to research the material that is going to be used to ensure that it is going to last.

For more accurate inspection of the garage door, a homeowner may wish to perform a balance test on their garage door every other month. Performing a balance test on the garage door means that one disconnects the door from the automatic opener and manually opens the door to check the doors balance.

While another child is playing with the button to make the door go up and down, the child under the door could sustain serious injury or death. This is why you should teach your children that garage doors and door openers are not toys.

Related to the above piece of advice, children should be taught to never play near or around a garage door, especially if it is moving or open. Serious consequences could ensue if a child is caught underneath a garage door when it is moving. If you have a garage door controller mounted to the wall by your back door, make sure it is mounted high enough so that it cannot be reached by children. Although you may teach your children to strictly never touch the door controllers, there is still a chance that they will want to touch them and push the buttons.

Additionally, for the safety of those in the home and of a person's property, a monthly test checking the maitanance and working function of the garage door's motion sensor should be undertaken. The motion sensors attatched to a garage door enable the door to stop from closing if something or someone passes below the shutting garage door.

Your garage door in Sacramento definitely needs to be checked yearly to make sure it is working properly. Although it may seem like an unnecessary hassle, keeping your garage door maintained will help keep you and your family safe from harm. People everywhere are getting their garage doors checked today in order to better protect their families.




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