If your garage door is moving
slower than it's supposed to, like mine is watch this. And it feels like it's just struggling. I've got a few tips that will help you
to be able to troubleshoot that and get things moving back the way they should be. [ Garage door making groaning noises]. Now the first thing we
want to check before you do
anything with the door itself is to check on the opener. We're
going to pop open the panel here, and then you want to look to see
if there's any dials or buttons, to be able to adjust the force of
the garage door opener. In my case, there is an up and down arrow here, but those are actually for programming
and putting things into position, but there isn't a little dial or anything
to adjust how strong the forces is to open or close the door. So nothing I can
do here, but always check there first. Sometimes it's just been decreased
and you need to turn it up now, before we lubricate anything, we want
to check for any buildup of debris. In my case, this is very clean. You can see the track is actually
looking like it's pretty clean. There's not a lot of debris built
up, but if you do have some, you want to wet a cloth, get a little
bit damp and then wipe that down. So to lubricate the different
parts of the garage door, we're going to use a silicone-based
lubricant. We're not using standard WD 40, because that's going
to attract more debris. And it's not ideal for this application.
You don't want to use standard oil, either. You'll want to use something that's
silicone-based or meant for this sort of application. Now coming over here on the,
as far as parts, we have the rollers, which are these guys in the
black, they are inside the track. We have the roller pins
that they're attached to, and this whole unit is called
the roller pin bracket. And all three of these will likely
need some sort of lubrication. The roller pin brackets also act as
hinges for the garage door on the outsides here. And so we're going
to just use the straw. I'm going to spray a little bit on there
a little bit in here and a little bit on the hinges themselves, and you just need a little bit and
kind of do it on the top and let it let gravity do some of the work for you. So that's pretty much it we'll do
another little one right there. All I'm going to need
to do for each of these. I'm going to work my way up and down the
garage door until those are all done. I'll do the same thing on these hinges
that are inside the middle of the door, little on either side, starting
on the top and we'll call it good. And then I'll move up and
down to get all of the hinges. And there's quite a few of
them on the garage door. We just want to make sure to
get every one of them. Yes. We're going to give it another try
and see if that makes any difference. Still moving pretty slow. Doesn't sound that bad yet. We'll try it one more time. Let it move up and down a couple of
times and see if it starts to loosen up. The next thing to check is to make sure
that if there is a track up here that needs lubricating. So for example, if you have a type of belt or chain
that has a track that encloses it, it's usually in a C shape, then that
may need some lubricating as well. Now with this always check the
manufacturer's recommendations. See if you can find the manual for your
garage door opener to see if it needs that some of them come with some oil on
these that don't require any lubrication down the road. So be sure to check that, but that is a point that you're
going to want to look at, to see if maybe that's causing
some of the issue as well. Now, if none of that has worked yet, there
are a couple more things we can try. One of them is the tension
on the garage door. Now this is not something I recommend
you necessarily do on your own, unless you feel really
comfortable with this, or you have some experience with this. This is a good time to call
a garage door technician, if you need some help
with this. But that said, we can diagnose the issue pretty easily
to diagnose it without doing anything dangerous. You can disengage the
garage door by pulling on this rope, to disengage it from the track. And basically the door is
just on its own at that point, and not connected to the opener with that. You can lift the door and see if it
actually is coming up fairly easily, or if it's still really
heavy and difficult, if it's
really heavy and difficult, that means the garage door doesn't
have enough tension applied to it, or if you start to lift
it and it just flies up. That means this is over tightened. And so either of those cases will require
some adjustment of the tension. Now, fortunately, in my case, the lubricant that we applied to the
rollers and the hinges seem to make pretty much all the difference. It's a lot
quieter and it's moving a lot faster. Now. We're not getting all that racket that
we heard before with the screeching and the scraping noises. And it's moving
at a much better pace. It's still slow, but this is kind of how ours has always
been. Now, if none of those work, you may need to call a garage door
company and have them come take a look. If you think that you
need to replace this, I've got a video right here that you can
check out on how to replace the garage door opener. I'm Nils with
LRN2DIY. Thanks for watching.
