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There could be a lot of different things that are making a loud garage door.
I got 5 things that you can do to make it quieter.
If your garage door openers making loud noises
inside your house. Then it's because all this energy vibrating inside at the opener
is being transferred through these beams straight into
the supports in the room. So..
right here you can see these bolts are going right up into the beams that are
underneath this Sheetrock. So one thing you can do is separate it.
Unscrew the lag bolt and put a bushing in.
I have one there, and one there, and what that does is that acts like a shock
absorber so that this metal beam actually isn't
riding on the ceiling there transferring all that
energy and thus amplifying into the house.
Another source of noise could be coming from your
garage door chain. Some of them have belts
and if you have a belt instead of a chain, you're not going to have this
problem but
chains can fatigue over time by being stretched
and they will sag a bit. Now if they sag enough to actually hit this metal
when it's going, you will hear a TAP TAP TAP TAP TAP.
And it can actually make noise
hitting this part that rides along that track
so if you do have this problem you can tighten your chain here
because here is one end. Thats locked on there but this other and has two
nuts you can unscrew this one, loosen
this and tighten it so that it pulling the chain tighter.
The trick is it okay to have a little bit as sag on. You don't want is
absolutely straight because if it's straight
you're gonna put too much attention and too much pressure
on this gear here and you snap it off and that
not gonna be it super cheap and easy fix.
Both sides at the garage door have these little rollers and they ride along the
track that goes all the way down to the ground.
Sometimes these will get hit by a car or bike or whatever
equipment you have in your garage, and can be bent
out of alignment, and if it's out of alignment, you're going to hear some
fairly loud grinding noises and
screeching noises because it's
metal riding against metal. You want to take a look and see if
everything looks
like it's straight in a line.
If oen these tracks is pulling the shaft of this roller either way,
too far this way, or too far this way, it will
pinch. Then you know you have a problem. You will know that this is also a
problem
if your garage door makes the noise all of a sudden.
So lets say it's riding up. And all of a sudden when it gets to about
this part, it's screech noises...
then you know you probably have something wrong with the alignment
of your track. The track is secured with these metal brackets
and they're adjustable. There is a slot that it rides in.
So you can unscrew here can adjust it if you need to.
You're going to have to pay attention and look at it closely to make sure it in
the right spot, but it's not that tricky
and you can do it. Usually one side is out of alignment, so you can compare to the
other
and then adjust it as needed.
To oil these rollers and hinges you can use WD-40 or
just a regular oil, but the best stuff to use is a
lithium grease. WD-40 actually makes
this as well and it's not regular WD-40.
actually quite different. So there are
spots here where they could be
ball bearings inside. Now some of those might be
totally encased in which oiling or greasing it
won't really help and other times
depending on the style a roller you have it would need oil after a while.
Also you can get it in here where the shaft
goes into that little enclosure. So I'm going to puta little
here and try to get some
down in here. And that's good enough
now youre gonna have rollers all the way down
so we will do these and also these little
hinges in the middle. It could be tricky finding out
where to oil these, but you can see here
where
the metal has worn away the paint. So when you see stuff like that
you know that's probably a source of noise.
So you can give it a squirt there.
and the other side of the pin there.
Your coil spring could also be another source of noise now
this has a lot of tension in it and these coils
rub against each other. If it dries out it's going to make a lot of creaking noises.
So along the top just add
the lithium grease
and it should roll down all the way to the bottom.
At each end of your garage door you have these pulleys.
Sometimes those bearings are encased
but if you don't know, it couldn't hurt to
oil it anyway.
It will work it's way in.
last thing you want is dripping oily grease
falling all over your car or whatever is in your garage so
last thing to do is obviously wipe down the excess. That way you are not going to have a
horrible mess to clean up later.
This is a common problem on garage doors.
This rides along this rail and what happens after a while I can dry out and
become misaligned
and grind all the way down.
That will be making a lot of noise if it's
grinding on the metal so you can actually
lubricate this track here
all the way down and that would help this ride.
To recap: If it's making general squeaks
here and there and sounding like they're coming from all over the place
it's probably your rollers and hinges. If it's making a rattling noise,
tap tap tapping noise, it could be a loose chain
hitting the rail.
If it's making a long grinding noise, it could either be this
grinding along the track, or
if it seems somewhat
temporary like comes at a certain time, it could be that you tracks out of
alignment.
If it's just a general loud kind of
subwoofer hum that's going through your house, you could need to just put some
bushings
between the ceiling and the
braces. I hope that helps. If it has
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