Garage Door Makes Cracking Sound Painted

Using a wrench and socket set to retighten these bolts and screws can potentially quiet the garage door almost completely.

Garage door makes cracking sound painted.

Garage door making popping sound when opening. This causes the popping sound you hear. Many garage doors use large torsion springs to assist in opening the door. To help open the door many garage doors come with big torsion springs.

Over time the coil of a spring can lock preventing smooth operation and causing a popping noise. There are a couple of reasons why your door would be making this sound. If your garage door makes a popping sound when opening it could be the torsion springs. This loud unsticking door opening noise doesn t seem like a big problem and i suppose it isn t but since i m a night owl so when i open doors it tends to wake my wife up.

Lubricate the torsion springs. The spring coils have rusted and are rubbing together. With the door open lubricate the spring generously with motor oil and a clean dry cloth. It s almost as if the paint isn t cured since the sound seems to come from the contact area around the frame where the door touches the doorframe but this house has not been painted in 5 years.

Simply buy some oil based lubricant from your local garage door specialist and apply it to the metal parts the springs the rollers and the hinges.