Maintaining Your Industrial Doors: Tips for Prolonging Lifespan and Performance
Maintaining Industrial Doors – What to Know
For commercial businesses, industrial doors play a key role in daily operations. This results in frequent use, which results in ongoing wear and tear. When door parts become compromised, this can directly impact the doors’ functionality, which impacts operations. Also, doors that are not functioning properly present a safety hazard. Keeping industrial doors maintained can address current issues and identify potential problems.
Tips for Maintaining Industrial Doors
- Create and Follow a Door Maintenance Checklist
- Visual and Hands-On Observation
- Cleaning and Lubrication
- Schedule Professional Regular Maintenance
Create and Follow an Industrial Door Maintenance Checklist
While this may seem obvious, there may be a thing or two not on your list that helps in maintaining the durability, versatility, safety, and lifespan of the doors. Some things to check range from damaged weatherstripping to other issues common to industrial doors include bent frames, damaged panels, worn rollers, safety devices not functioning, and corrosion.
Visual and Hands-On Observation
Visually looking at and physically interacting with industrial doors provides helpful information that can quickly alert a facility manager, business owner, and employee that the doors need maintenance. For example, from the checklist, damaged or deteriorating weatherstripping leads to water seepage and allows air leaks, which affects the interior temperature and energy costs and cleanliness.
Cleaning the Hardware
This includes the hinges and the locks. Both are subject to daily use and abuse. Like most hinges, over time, industrial door hinges need the application of a good lubricant. This allows the hinges to work smoothly versus reducing the amount of friction, which leads to resistance/friction and the doors not opening and closing easily.
Schedule Professional Regular Maintenance
Industrial doors are available in many shapes, sizes, and materials and are used for interior and exterior commercial purposes. Whether you are interested in steel roll up doors in Philadelphia, PA, or high speed doors near Bucks County, proper maintenance and care are necessary to ensure the doors are operating at peak performance at all times. Maintaining industrial doors with the services of a professional company is cost-effective, as each door will have a longer lifespan with proper care versus doors left unattended or having infrequent maintenance checks.
Asset Tagging Free of Charge
Stokes Equipment Company provides a free-of-charge asset tagging program with our service and planned maintenance program. Asset tagging logs equipment manufacturer, serial number, service history, usage cycles, and other pertinent details are included in our database. Asset tagging allows for faster service on future repair needs as well as establishing a comprehensive record of repair costs over time. In addition, the comprehensive data reduces reactive situations and allows for predictive decision-making on the frequency of planned maintenance as well as data-based decisions on when to start budgeting for replacement equipment.
Contact Us
Relying on professional maintenance services helps ensure the investment made in industrial doors. At Stokes Equipment, our highly trained and certified service technicians know what to do and how to do it when maintaining our industrial doors. We aim to please our customers by providing them with quality maintenance. We do this by providing emergency services 24 hours a day. To keep your businesses’ industrial doors in good condition, we offer regularly scheduled maintenance plans. For new equipment products, services, and maintenance, contact our experts at Stokes Equipment.
