8 Tips To Keep Your Garage Doors Safe

Garages are great to store your things, for your kids to play and their home projects. For all of these reasons, it’s really important to keep them safe and secure. Here is a list of garage door safety tips for keeping everyone and everything safe and secure. 

1. Don’t keep garage door controls handy. Keep them safely out of your kids reach. Don’t let them play with garage door controls. 

2. Never place fingers between door sections. Don’t forget to explain the dangers of placing fingers between door sections to your kids. You can also install doors with panels that can’t pinch. 

3. Read the door manual properly to learn how to use the garage door’s emergency release feature. 

4. Inspect the garage door carefully. Keep an eye at cables, springs, rollers, and pulleys for signs of wear and tears. Do not attempt to adjust or repair these parts or anything attached to them. Contact garage door professional to repair these parts. 

5. When you’re going for a vacation, don’t forget to unplug the garage door opener unit or use a vacation lock console security switch. 

6. Test the garage door opener’s reversing mechanism monthly by placing a 2 x 4 board or a roll of paper towels in the door’s path. If the garage door doesn’t come back after touching the object, contact garage door professionals to repair your door. 

7. Don’t leave the garage door partially open. When activated again, it may come in contact with an object in its path or may travel downward. This can hinder your home’s security as well. 

8. Whenever garage door professionals install your door, don’t forget to change the access code to be safe. 

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