If your garage door is making a huge amount of noise, it can be a huge amount of annoying. This is even worse when you’re dealing with home garage doors, and people in the house get woken up in the middle of the night. Here’s some tips from the garage door repair in Chicago experts at Garage Door Repair Chicago that you can use to lower the amount of garage door noise in your home. 

Causes of Garage Door Noise

Broken Rollers

Rollers need to adequately roll – not slide – through their tracks. If your rollers are causing a racket, replace them with quiet nylon rollers that don’t contain any ball bearings, or steel rollers wrapped in nylon for more solid solutions.

Chain Drives

Chain drive doors make much more noise generally, so if this is your issue, replace your chain drive opener with a rubber, steel reinforced, belt drive.

Door Openers Share their Noise

The vibration and noise moves from garage door openers to the metal of the door itself. If this is your issue, use a vibration isolator put between the door opening and the metallic pieces that attach it to the ceiling. This device works as a sound muffler, reducing the vibration from passing into your garage door itself with fantastic results -(just make sure not to attach the garage door’s metal attachments to the roof.)

Additional Noise Reduction Strategies

• Inspect your door when it’s closed to see if any pieces seem loose, worn out, or plain flat broken. Tighten any materials that need tightening.
• Lubricate metallic aspects of the door that touch other metallic aspects – including a spring or hinge system, using a petroleum lube – and also lubricate the weatherstripping along the entire garage door, but use a silicone lubricant for this so as not to erode the weatherstripping.

You might decide to replace your garage door. If so, keep this in mind:

• The way that the door is constructed applies to how much noise it causes. Make sure that your door is constructed by a professional.
• Non-insulated garage doors make much more noise than sandwiched insulated doors.
• Polyurethane can help insulate your garage door fantastically, sticking perfectly to the door’s walls increasing both its stability and it’s ability to reduce sound.