Garage
door springs have been subject to innovation to improve their safety,
cycle life, and performance. Here are some of these innovations.

1. Galvanized Garage Door Springs

About
20 years ago, galvanized garage door torsion springs broke into the
garage door parts market as an alternative to oil-tempered springs.
Later, electro-coating on oil-tempered torsion springs augmented the
buyer’s set of choices.

Because traditional oil-tempered garage
door torsion springs have an oily residue owing to their oil-enabled
manufacture, installers often leave dirty smudges from the springs on
the doors, to the ire of the customer. Many technicians install about
6-8 springs per day on a tight schedule and need to keep moving with
repair work. As such they find little time to wipe up, though some take
the time. Galvanization came about to address this common and vexing
issue.

Most in the garage door repair Carson CA, service industry, though, ably
identify the problem with galvanized springs. Galvanizing weakens the
spring. Anyone hammering a 16-penny galvanized nail knows metal
weakening results from galvanization. And the results of galvanizing
seem to prove no different with springs.

Garage door owners, too,
voice objections to galvanized springs because of high maintenance
costs. Upon Installation, one can count on an adjustment six months
later, and then another at a similar interval. And so, the owner will
need to adjust expectations when dealing with galvanized springs.

Possibly,
a tough situation may arise. If a door loses significant tension from a
galvanized spring installation, this may result in insufficient lift to
open the door. If you seek to remedy this by adding extra spring
tension in a “hot” installation, you necessarily decrease the spring
cycle life. If you do not add the initial tension, you get higher
maintenance costs, especially when the cable may come off the drum, and a
service call to rewind the spring and rectify the cable issue follows.

In
the past five years, an article pitting galvanized vs. oil tempered
became a well-read discussion online. Although the author attempts to
steer clear of taking a position in the debate, the assertions made may
do little to sway those with direct field experience on the subject of
garage door springs. Simply talk to an experienced technician for his or
her perspective.

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