I had not realized how loud the garage door opener had become. I have had, over the years, intermittent problems with it, because when I rented the house, one of my tenants had warped a rail with her truck. We bent it back but every once in a while, the bottom roller jumps the track, and I have to finagle the door down.
Well, that had happened some recently. And I thought nothing of it. I did notice, Tuesday night, that the garage door did not go all the way down. I decided that I have a day off coming up, and would call a garage door repair service to see if it could be fixed. So, Wednesday morning, the garage door did not want to stay down, and I finagled it to stay closed. The same thing happened Wednesday night. I was home early enough, I decided to call about service, and was able to set up a late afternoon appointment for today.
So, when I back out of the garage this morning, I was ready to finagle keeping the garage door down, and voilá the door dropped, and would not budge. I panicked for a minute, but remembered I had keys in my purse.
So, when I got home from work, I had to sort through the keys and let myself in the front doors. The cats were very confused about this.
The garage door people, Raider Garage Doors, were impressive. They came into the garage, scoped out the problem, and immediately, knew what to do. They noticed there were screws loose and missing on some of the hinges, and they tended to that. They fixed the bent rail, lubricated everything, and had the garage door opener fixed in about 40 minutes. The service fee was really reasonable.
I am amazed at how much quieter the garage door is. Wow!
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