Video: The Importance of Garage Door Maintenance

Maintenance on a garage door. It's the largest moving object on the house. No matter what you buy or who you buy it from, it's not maintenance free. Just like an automobile, you can buy the most expensive car, It still takes maintenance. So the maintenance is important.

The frequency of that probably every couple of years, maybe a little longer, depending on how often it gets used. One of the things that's changed is now it's a state law since about the last three years that all your openers have to have battery backup. So we see more and more with battery backup.

And the other thing that's kind of nice about that is, not only are you never where you can't get the door open, but the other side of that is, about the time the batteries need to be changed is a good time to do the service. So for three to four years, you can have the whole system gone over and see that everything's in good shape, just like some of the other major appliances you'd have in your home.