How can I know if my garage door rollers need to be replaced?
Picture 1 – Good roller vs. bad roller
There are a few different ways that you can tell if your garage door rollers need to be replaced:
- A visual inspection of the roller, if it’s a nylon, plastic, or form of rubber you will see physical wear to the roller. This could be because normal wear and tear especially if the rollers have a lot of cycles on them and also because of a bad installation.
Picture 2 – Physical wear on nylon / plastic roller
- Another way to determine if your garage door rollers need to be replaced is that they will periodically or constantly pop out of the track this mean that the tire has worn down its diameter and no longer stays inside the garage door track.
Picture 3 – worn down roller
- The third option is that he garage door roller parts will come loose and brake. The wheel will brake from the stem, sometime with metal balls from the ball bearing all over the floor. This can cause a series consequences and may damage the door operation immediately.
Picture 4 – Broken ball bearing roller
If any of these problems above occur when operating your garage door then they will need to be replaced.
Picture 5 – One picture – 11 ball bearing nylon, 13 dust cover nylon roller, z bearing nylon roller
The other types of garage door roller would be your steel tire rollers which have a steel or stainless steel tire. These types of rollers are commonly found on wood sectional garage doors and new. And they can almost always be found on commercial grade sectional garage doors. The reason for this is because any foremost types of garage door rollers made of steel tend to have a high cycle rating -they can range from 15,000 cycles all the way up to 50 or 60,000 cycles. The nylon or polyurethane tire rollers are a lot quieter and have much less friction than the steel construction rollers so it is better to use the quieter rollers on a residential garage door because sometimes there are living spaces above a garage like a bedroom and most people like a really quiet garage door and garage door opener when is operating if there are bedrooms above a garage as far as commercial application quiet rollers are not usually an issue for where houses for auto repair garages. Not to mention that most hardware in moving parts on commercial garage doors are designed to last longer than residential garage doors just because of their frequency of use this year weight of commercial garage doors and the fact that replacing rollers on a commercial garage door might not always be as inexpensive as on a residential garage door. Also been more obvious way to tell your brothers need to be replaced is the fact that if they are plastic nylon tire they can break apart and not be in a circle or around shape anymore or if they are steel constructed garage door rollers then I have seen them just fall apart due to wear and tear and become useless.
Cost –
The cost for replacing garage door rollers on a residential garage door should range anywhere from $150 - $185 depending on which company you choose to do the work. We would also recommend a garage door to tune up and maintenance if you are going to replace the garage door rollers and that should be part of the service without any additional cost
