Garage Doors Track Repair Service Pacoima CA

Your garage door’s tracks are a crucial part of its functioning. A garage door typically has rollers which slot into tracks that run along with the ceiling of the garage. When you open your garage door, the rollers glide along the tracks and pull the garage door open. Depending on how many panels your garage door has, your door may attach to the rails from a few places, or each panel might be attached to the tracks. Having multiple attachments to the tracks means your garage door generally makes your garage door more reliable and ensures its functionality more than having only one or a few connections. 

Garage door tracks are usually galvanized by manufacturers, which protects them against wear and tear and corrosion to some extent. You can also find garage door tracks in different sizes, which can vary depending on the size and weight of your door. For example, industrial-size garage doors are generally set by installers on tracks that are much larger than those that you might install in a residential setting. 

Different types of garage door tracks can also support different kinds of opening and closing. There are three different basic ways a garage door can open: standard, vertical, or high. Most residential garage doors have a standard lift, which means that the tracks allow the door to rise horizontally above the garage floor. This lift usually works with a rolling motion. 

There are, unfortunately, many different ways that garage tracks can break or malfunction. Such problems are due in some part to the nature of their role itself. Opening and closing your garage door puts your tracks under a great deal of strain and torsion. This strain is mostly the result of the springs and cables that are part of a garage door opener. Fortunately, one can generally repair damaged garage door tracks, if the damage is not too severe. More severe damage requires replacing the tracks altogether, but this is often preventable with maintenance and having the tracks repaired in a timely fashion. 

Garage door tracks are often still in place in an existing garage when moving into new properties, and this often leads people to consider simply using the existing tracks instead of purchasing new ones that match the new garage door. We don’t recommend doing so, as tracks can sustain a great deal of wear and tear over their life. Furthermore, one often installs garage doors and tracks together, and this can mean that the existing tracks in your garage may not be compatible with the new garage door. 

There may also be other underlying issues with an old set of garage door tracks that may not be immediately obvious, but which could lead to imbalances or other problems with the components of your garage door opener without you noticing. These imbalances may cause severe damage to the parts of the garage door or the opener over time and require replacement or repair of some or all parts of the opening system. Garage door tracks are generally not very expensive, which is why it is worth merely investing in a new set instead of reusing old ones.