So your garage door is making some annoying, irritating noise and you don’t know what to do? It’s even more difficult when your bedroom is located above your garage and you’re disturbed late at night. Here are a few ways you can minimize garage door noise.

Factors that cause noise and solutions

• Old rollers: We often forget that rollers should roll  smoothly in the tracks and not slide. This can be a major source of noise. To fix this situation, there are quieter rollers made of nylon (black without ball bearings) or steel rollers coated in rigid nylon.
• Chain-drive door openers are much louder than openers with a rubber belt drive (reinforced with steel). Choose this type of door opener if you need a updated one.
• Often the sound and vibrations of a door opener are transferred to the garage framework. If you don’t want to change your opener, there are vibration isolators which are placed between the door opener housing and the metal hanger brackets attaching it to the ceiling. These isolators act like mufflers do on a car. It is important as well, not to connect the metal brackets holding the tracks of the door opener directly to the roof trusses.

What more can you do yourself to minimize this noise?

• When your door is closed, take a good look to see if there are parts that seem broken, very worn or detached . As needed, tighten any nuts or bolts.
• Lubricate all metal parts that touch with another metal part, meaning hinges and the spring system. Use a petroleum-based lubricant.
• Lubricate, as well, the surrounding weatherstripping. Use a silicone-based lubricant for this.
• Refer to the garage door or door opener manufacturer’s service guide

A garage door technician can do it all for you.

• You can’t find the time or you aren’t the most experienced handyman?
• A garage door specialist at Local Garage Door Repair Boynton Beach FL knows how to quiet a garage door and can do it for you. Many give an annual “tune-up” program, just like you have with your car.

If you choose to change your garage door…

• Remember that the door structure has something to do with garage door noise.
• A non-insulated door is louder than an insulated sandwich-type door.
• By choosing polyurethane insulation, it not only adheres to the walls of the door, thus expanding rigidity, but is an excellent sound insulator.

Contact a garage door specialist at Local Garage Door Repair Boynton Beach FL. We are professionals who have worked with garage doors for many years and know them inside and out. We’ve seen all kinds of garage doors and are more than able to suggest what can be done so you can get a good night’s sleep!