Due to the importance of your automatic doors, it’s also vital that an automatic door engineer carries out regular maintenance checks, to ensure components are in good condition and working effectively and efficiently.
To give a brief insight into automatic door maintenance, we’ve listed 5 maintenance checks a qualified automatic door engineer would typically carry out, to make sure your automatic doors continue providing uninterrupted service.
Lubrication
Your automatic door engineer will ensure the moving parts of your automatic door system are fully lubricated at all times. Parts that typically need lubricating will include:
- Hinges
- Latches
- Locks
- Pulleys and Bearings
- Arms
- Chains
- Counterweights
By ensuring these parts are fully lubricated, your automatic door engineer is maintaining the friction system of your automatic door system, which will prevent sticking, clunking or squeaking when your doors are in operation.
Water Prevention
Although high-quality automatic doors are designed to cope with moisture, especially external automatic doors, keeping an eye on components that prevent water penetration is a vital part of automatic door maintenance.
To help ensure your doors don’t suffer from water damage, your automatic door engineer will check things such as screw holes, and cable entry holes in control panels, and seal with silicone if necessary.
Electrical Component Checks
During a maintenance check of your automatic doors, your automatic door engineer will pay careful attention to the electrical components, including the control panel, and motor etc.
The automatic door engineer will be looking out for how the parts function, and possible scorching around relays, a problem that may affect automatic doors with a high frequency of use.
Spring checks
The springs of your automatic door are extremely important to its functionality and work to ensure the door opens and closes in a controlled manner, using a combination of compression and expansion.
Your automatic door engineer will carefully examine the springs of your automatic door, checking for corrosion, breakages, and if the springs are misaligned, or have come loose from their fittings.
Check the area around the door
As well as the door itself, the area around the door must also be checked regularly, to help ensure dust, dirt and litter don’t prevent the door from functioning as smoothly as it should, or lead to jamming or squeaking.
Your automatic door engineer will always check the surrounding area around your automatic door, checking that the floor guides (on sliding doors) particularly, aren’t clogged with dirt, or blocked by other objects.
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