Garage Door Cable Replacement

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Reasons for Garage Door Cable Replacement
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Garage Door Cable Replacement
Garage doors have complex mechanisms with
multiple functioning components essential to its
seamless movement. Springs and cables facilitate
the opening and closing of the door in controlled
manner. Springs undergo high degree of tension so
it might cause slamming down of the door causing
injury to people and damaging objects. The
function of the cable is to catch the door in
case of a broken spring. Garage door cable
replacement is necessary when there is wear and
tear or any damage.
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Common cable types based upon the spring system
used

• Torsion springs such cables lock on one end,
  stopping at the other. It is necessary to secure
  this spring with cables. Broken cable stops the
  unwinding of the spring.
• Safety cables the installation of safety cables
  to the extension springs prevents any injury or
  damage. Attached to wall near stationary pulleys
  or the door track this wind through the door
  springs connect to same support as the spring.
  Broken safety cables signify that now there is
  nothing to stop slamming of the spring into a
  person or object. The 24-hour garage door repair
  services handle the issue.
• Extension springs this runs along door on either
  side and because of their length it requires
  spring cables extensions. Closing of the door
  stretches the spring and opening this leads to
  extended spring lifting the door. Broken cable
  does not let extended spring to pull back in
  place and prevents the opening of the door.

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Common cable types based upon the spring system
used

• Incorrect winding of the cable around drum lead
  to jamming of the door. Identify this problem by
  the drooping of the door to a side.
• Unwinding of door cables when this happen, it is
  necessary to replace this with brand new cables
  as part of garage door repair.
• Worn out pulleys it is not possible to repair
  the pulleys worn out because once damaged it goes
  bad repeatedly.

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• Normal wear and tear there might be breakage of
  the cables over time due to regular use and this
  causes problems. Broken cables signify
  non-operative garage doors so the professionals
  remove old cables to implement new ones to
  restore the functioning.
• Cable fraying this refers to a common issue with
  the door cables because each one consists of
  multiple small cables wound as rope. This means
  just like rope there is going to be over time
  fraying and damage leading to various issues.

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Garage door repair Melbourne requirements might
crop up due to a variety of reasons and one of
these relates to cable issues. The professionals
decide whether replacement is necessary and
install new cables that fit the current door.
This restores the mechanism of spring and cable
to ensure the controlled opening and closing of
the door.
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Contact Details
ADDRESS
2 Parton Court Carnegie Victoria 3163
EMAIL
service_at_precisiongaragedoors.com.au
PHONE
03 9068 9543
WEBSITE
www.precisiongaragedoors.com.au