Roll-up Door Maintenance & Repairs

Storage Door Maintenance & Repairs

Storage doors are frequently used and regularly exposed to the environmental elements. Over time, your doors rust, degrade, or even break down. Downtime represents money coming out of your pocket and being allocated between costly repairs and decreased productivity. With industry-leading steel roll-up doors, maintenance costs are minimized, so you can add more money back into your pocket.

Signs It’s Time to Replace Your Doors

It’s inevitable that even the most meticulously maintained doors will eventually reach a point where it’s time to replace them with a new product. When you start to notice chalking on the face of the door, the color of the door fading, or the doors are no longer functioning as they should, then it’s time to replace those storage doors. While you may be tempted to just paint or apply a “restorative” coating, this only adds to the problem.

When driving up to a facility, the impression given by the overall look of your facility is the first impression. Older doors that are past their life show well before trying to lift it. Would you let your house look the same for 20 plus years without renovating? Then why let your business?

Broken springs are an issue most facilities face at one point or another. When someone attempts to open the door and a spring is broken, it will be very difficult to do so. If someone is able to forcibly open the door, the entire curtain will simply “balloon” back into the unit instead of rolling up around the axle assembly. This is certainly a situation where the door will need to be replaced. However, before jumping straight to replacing these storage unit doors, make sure that lack of tension on the springs isn’t the culprit.

As for coating your storage door with a product that claims to “restore” its luster, again, this is merely a short term solution and won’t last long. These coatings are much like Armor All used on car tires or the interior dash area of our cars – it looks great for only a short amount of time. Once your doors become an eyesore or begin to malfunction, it’s definitely time to replace them.