Keeping your commercial doors fully operational is essential to keeping a good flow to your operations. A planned maintenance program, tailored to your specific facility and door systems, helps extend the life of your equipment, minimize downtime, and reduce repair and energy costs. Here are some key benefits of implementing a preventative maintenance plan for your commercial sectional or rolling doors. 

Identify Areas That Need Your Attention

Your commercial doors face a lot of wear and tear during everyday operations. They may be close to breaking down without anyone noticing, and when one part breaks down, it can have a cascading effect on the rest of your system, leading to even further repair costs to get it in working order again. When you call professional maintenance technicians to examine your commercial door, they’ll be able to spot potential problems that require attention so you can fix them before they turn into bigger issues that affect your operation, saving money on repair costs. 

Maintain Uptime and Productivity

Unexpected breakdowns from your commercial doors can halt production and bring your business operations to a standstill. Whether it’s misaligned tracks, broken hinges, or non-functional openers that leave your doors stuck in a closed position, there are a variety of issues that can crop up.

With planned maintenance on your sectional and rolling doors, you can stay on top of any potential wear and tear that might bring work to a halt, maintaining uptime and productivity. A professional technician, who has years of experience working on commercial doors, will give your system a thorough inspection and investigate anything that looks like it may become a problem in the future, giving you a chance to rectify it before it hampers your workflow. To avoid disrupting your regular working day, maintenance can even be scheduled during off hours.

Ensure Safety for All Occupants

Workplace safety is a top priority for all business. Sectional and rolling doors contain heavy components under tension that can pose serious safety hazards if not properly maintained. When these parts wear or fail, they can cause injuries to employees, customers, or visitors and expose your business to liability, fines, or even shutdowns.

Proactive planned maintenance is essential for preventing accidents that put people and property at risk. A licensed and experienced technician will know the signs to look for when assessing the potential for safety risks, such as worn cables, rusted hinges, misaligned tracks, or damaged panels. Once you know what needs fixing, you can address them quickly, maintain a safer environment, and allow you to stay current with all the relevant codes and safety regulations. 

Conserve Energy and Save Money

Energy efficiency is increasingly important for both environmental and financial reasons. With the rising cost of energy, losses are not only costly from an operational standpoint, but consumers are also growing more aware of businesses’ energy conservation policies, choosing to patronize those whose environmental efforts align with their own.

One of the things that can greatly help your business conserve energy is regular planned maintenance of your commercial doors and other access points. Regular planned maintenance for your commercial doors and other access points can help identify vulnerable areas that can lead to a loss of energy. From worn and old weatherstripping that no longer provides an adequate seal for your doors to gaps caused by misaligned doors, a commercial door expert can spot problem areas and fix them on the spot, lessening the strain on your HVAC systems, lowering your energy bill, and helping you meet your sustainability goals.

What Does a Maintenance Call Look Like?

When our knowledgeable team visits your site for professional maintenance, you can count on a thorough maintenance check. This check will include:

• Inspection of all door components: guides, curtains, bottom bars, gusset plates, hoods, chain hoists, weatherstripping, tracks, hinges, cables, etc., are checked for damage or corrosion.
• Lubrication of all necessary moving parts: to help ensure that everything is able to move freely as needed.
• Testing the balance of the door: ensures that the door avoids excessive wear and tear and safety risks.
• Testing all safety systems: includes auto-reverse functions and photo eye sensors, to ensure your door meets safety requirements.

Our licensed inspector will note any problems and provide you with a full report with recommended solutions so you can easily act on anything urgent. 

Call Creative Door Services for Maintenance You Can Count On

Thanks to our extensive in-house support for all makes and models of doors, Creative Door Services is the go-to source for planned commercial door maintenance in Western Canada, plus maintenance for all your other access solutions, such as pedestrian doors and commercial gates. We are certified by the Canadian Door Institute and have the most extensive selection of parts and products in the region. 

When you want a reliable planned maintenance team backed by over 55 years of experience in the industry, you can find us in Kelowna, British Columbia; Vancouver, British Columbia; Calgary, Alberta; Edmonton, Alberta; Fort McMurray, Alberta; Regina, Saskatchewan; Saskatoon, Saskatchewan; and Winnipeg, Manitoba to request a quote.