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Since your garage is an essential part of your home, you need to ensure that this space is safe and secure like all other parts of your home. Your garage door serves to protect your belongings inside the garage from outside elements, such as weather and criminals. Your garage door needs to function correctly at all times for safety reasons. Unfortunately, the garage door is not like any simple door. It has many different functioning parts that all work together to help you raise and lower the door as you need it. One of the most important parts of a garage door are the rollers.

All About Garage Door Rollers

Garage Door Broken RollersGarage door rollers are the most used part of your garage door system. These are small wheels with ball bearings that help your garage door move up and down smoothly and efficiently. Over time, due to wear and tear, they get louder and may cause the garage door to fall off the tracks or cause other serious problems. If it looks like your garage door is having a hard time opening and closing or if you notice that it has gotten noisier, it may be time to replace the rollers.

As our professionals at Garage Door Pros or any other reputable company can tell you, you should have your garage door rollers replaced every time you replace the springs. Ideally, you should schedule regular annual maintenance for your garage door, to catch and fix any issues before they lead to more significant problems. In Florida, garage door maintenance, as well as any other repair and replacement services, are provided by Garage Door Pros – your premier Weston garage door repair company.

Choosing Garage Door Rollers

Once you have established that you need new garage door rollers, it is important to pick ones that best suit your needs. There are many different types of garage door rollers available in the market.

Size of rollers – The first thing to do is to determine the correct size of rollers you need. The best way to do this is to remove one and measure it. However, if this is not possible, you can open the garage door half-way so that the rollers are at eye-level to enable you to take correct measurements. Measure across the width of the roller head with a tape measure. Then measure the shaft or stem attached to the roller. These measurements will help you pick out the correct size rollers for your garage door. Generally, rollers come in standard sizes, but if you need custom-sized rollers, you can contact a reputable garage door company such as our own garage door repair Weston.

The Importance of A Properly Running Garage Door Types of rollers – Along with the size of rollers, you also need to determine the type of rollers you need for your garage door. If you haven’t replaced your rollers in a few years, it is likely you have standard plastic rollers without ball bearings. These rollers typically have a lifespan of just two to three years. They are cheap and commonly used by construction companies for new homes. A better alternative is rollers with steel ball bearings. With lubrication, this kind of roller can last at least five years. You can choose between rollers with seven or ten ball bearings. We recommend, rollers with ten steel ball bearings for smoother door performance.

Additionally, you can find rollers with nylon ball bearings. These provide the most fluid and quietest open and close of your garage door and last for 100,000 cycles of the garage door, which is about ten times more than the standard rollers. These are an ideal choice for many homeowners.

Replacing your garage door rollers is not easy and is best left to the professionals. For replacement of rollers or any other Weston garage door repair services, call Garage Door Pros at 954.830.9661. Based in Florida, we have been an industry leader since 2012. We are proud to provide unparalleled garage door services for all our clients. Our experts are trained, certified, and experienced in all aspects of garage door services, and we would be happy to assist you with any garage door, installation, maintenance, repair, or replacement work.