Doors • Garage

How to Repair Garage Door Cable

Your garage door cables are essential components that enable your door to operate seamlessly. They act in collaboration with the torsion springs. Whenever you raise a garage door, the cables will unwind. When you close the garage door, the cables will wrap around the grooves in the cable drum. Broken cables are dangerous and can result in fatalities.

Further, when they break, they will deny you access to your garage. Owing to the nature of dangers involved in repairing this, you should call in an expert to fix it for you. However, there exist simple steps that you can follow to actualize your vision of repairing your garage door cable. Note that the process of door repair can be more complex than it might sound. You will have to be extremely careful or else the springs might injure you.

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Doors

How to repair a rotted door frame

It is common for door frames to rot at the bottom corner at the point where they intersect with the door sill. This usually happens when the caulk fails to protect the door from rain water intrusion. There are some steps involved in the door repair. This guide will help you realize what the whole procedure entails.

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Doors • Garage

How to repair garage door spring

Garage door spring helps you in offsetting the weight of the door and makes it easy for you to open and close the door. This is with disregard to automation or not. When used consistently, they get worn out over time. The springs become loose and less effective. There are different types of garage door springs. Garage doors usually have two types of springs. These include torsion or extension. The torsion garage door springs are heavy duty and are usually mounted to a metal rod running parallel to the door directly above the door’s opening. They have cables that attach the bottom corners of the door. When such doors are opened, the springs unwind and aid in lifting the door up.

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Doors • Garage

How to repair garage door opener

A stalled garage door can inconvenience you in many ways. Homeowners have reported cases of malfunctioned door openers and the frustrations this has caused them. Fortunately, this can be easily fixed. This will restore your garage door openers lost glory. In this guide, we discuss some of the most common garage door repair problems and their solutions.

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Doors • Glass door

How to repair a sliding glass door

Your sliding glass door can get sticky and hard to open. This happens when the wheels are misaligned, or the tracks have just gotten dirty. You should not worry when you find yourself in this situation. Let us have a look at how best you can repair your sliding door and replace a flimsy screen.

First, you will have to gather all the requisite tools for this exercise. You need a screwdriver, an Allen wrench, drill, pry bar, screen roller a utility knife to execute this exercise successfully. You will also need the materials for the job, including a premium replacement screen door and rollers. You should also get a silicone lubricant.

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Doors • Glass door

How to Repair a Screen Door

A functional screen door brings both efficiency and beauty. However, a broken screen door can cause a lot of trouble. The good news is that repairing a broken screen door is never as hard a task as many people seem to think. First of all, ensure you equip yourself with the following:

  • Mesh Screening
  • Roller Tool
  • Spline
  • Utility knife
  • Screwdriver
  • Scissors

Once you are well-armed with these tools, the following are the simple steps for your screen door and sliding door repair.

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Doors

How to Repair a Door Frame

Ensuring your door frame is properly installed reduces the chances of its failure, except when something damages it. In case of such damages, it will be of great convenience to you if you already have some know-how in door frame repair.

Note that the cause of the malfunction could be something else, so you will need to diagnose the problem, just to be sure. Once you have established that the problem is with the door frame, the following tips will come in handy.

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Doors

How to Repair a Pocket Door

It can be a very inconveniencing experience when your pocket door refuses to shut or open all the way. However, some of these cases do not necessarily mean you will have to replace the door. In most cases, what you need is to install new rollers or a new track, or sometimes both, and your pocket door gets back to perform like it is new.

The repair process does not need so much expertise or even sophisticated tools and expensive materials. Provided you have a new track, new rollers, and a well-functioning flashlight, you will only need the following, and you are good to go. If you are installing a new track and new rollers, you should buy them from a reputable builders’ supply store.

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Doors

How to Repair a Hole in A Door

Hollow core doors have become the preferred choice of many. They are both light and affordable. Also, they are paintable and can withstand common wear and tear. However, these doors are prone to the occurrence of accidental holes, especially resulting from the impact of a hit when moving items in the house.

If this happens to our door, do not panic. The process of repairing a hole in a door is a simple one that you can finish within one or two hours. You also won’t need any expensive tools or materials or some special expertise.

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