The garage door repair experts at Garage Door Repair Chicago have an encyclopedic knowledge of the common and more obscure issues that can affect successful working operation of residential or commercial garage doors. One of the most common issues that garage doors experience that affect their working operation is warping and bowing. Not only do warping and bowing garage doors look ugly, but they can even be dangerous. Here’s a guide to the dangers of garage door bowing and garage door warping.
What is garage door bowing?
Bowing is a type of warping that happens across the exterior surface of a garage door, making it look caved-in concavely from the outside. You can immediately tell if your garage door is bowing just by looking at it – they just don’t look right. Bowing garage doors can also be noticed by paying attention to if your garage door opener is straining, grinding, or making moaning or whirring noises as it tries to fit the distorted shape of the bowing garage door into it’s designated area.
What are the causes of a warping garage door?
Wooden garage doors look fantastic, but like all wooden constructions, they are susceptible to changes and fluctuations in weather, moisture, and temperature. As time passes, extreme temperatures can change the integrity of the door, warping its shape. If a STEEL garage door is bowing, it’s likely due to a weak garage door opener that’s centrally placed that cannot smoothly and effectively handle the weight of your existing steel garage door.
Fixing Bowing Garage Doors
If only one or a few of your garage door panels are warping or bowing, it might be a good move to simply just replace those panels, as this is cheaper than replacing the entire garage door. If your whole garage door is bowing, or if you have issues opening or closing the garage door, you have to replace the entire door. Contact a licensed garage door replacement expert, like those at Chicago Garage Doors, and choose from a wide selection of superior garage doors including steel-cored wooden doors, or fiberglass doors. By choosing one of these stronger doors built for smooth performance and durability, you are decreasing the chances that you will have to deal with any form of warping or bowing in the future. We highly recommend the time tested and widely popular LiftMaster brand of garage doors in particular.
