Maintaining Warehouse Roll-up Doors

Here is a quick guide to maintain your overhead warehouse doors

In this industry our clients call these overhead doors many different names. From overhead commercial door to warehouse door, steel door, garage door, commercial door, roll-up door, steel roll-up door, big door up up. The name isn’t important as long as we are talking about the same warehouse overhead door. Which is usually a corrugated metal sheet door, and now you know why they are usually referred to as overhead door or just roll-up door. Most warehouse managers or facility maintenance managers have never installed overhead doors before, so that’s why we are writing this short article on how to maintain roll-up doors like the ones found in your warehouse.

For this article we are referring to one type of overhead door specifically. This commercial door is a roll-up that has internal springs that can be accessed from the sides of the overhead door. This overhead door can either be push pull, hand chain operated, or motor driven. For this type of commercial door it does not make much of a difference. Warehouse doors like these need to be lubed and serviced on a regular basis. Commercial roll-up doors need to be lubed every 500-1000 cycles, and the springs need to be adjusted every 2500 cycles due to them breaking in and settling. Warehouse doors or overhead doors (same thing) can have they potential life cut short without this proper maintenance. Proper maintenance of your roll-up door can extend its life far beyond what the manufacturer sets as a predetermined amount of cycles, usually around 10,000 for this type of overhead door.

Other maintenance tips for your warehouses overhead door is to lube the guides or rails on the door once every 3 months. You want to use a heavy lubricant that will stick to the guides on the overhead door and not something like WD40. WD40 will only make your problem worse. We recommend calling us out to perform this routine overhead door maintenance as often as it is necessary. Commercial doors and overhead doors that are not properly maintained and looked at by professional door technicians on a regular basis run the risk of having undiagnosed problems that can lead to not just complete failure of the overhead door but the overhead door can became a hazard to the people that work around it. Overhead roll-up doors are heavy and can potentially fall if they are not inspected and maintained on a regular basis. Don’t let your overhead door become a danger to your facility, allow General Door to provide you with a complete overhead door service and maintenance package that will protect you and your employees.