The Garage Door Installers Podcast
Jul 13, 2026 · 10 min · 11 segments
When temperatures rise, so do the number of garage door call-outs. But is your garage door actually broken, or is the summer heat simply changing how it operates? In this episode of the **Garage Door…
James WilliamsHost
Let's start with something we all learnt at school but probably haven't thought about since.
It doesn't matter whether we're talking about steel, aluminium, timber or plastic.
Now we're not talking about inches here, the movement is usually measured within millimetres, but when you're dealing with a product that's designed with very fine tolerances, even a couple of millimetres can completely change how something feels when it operates.
If you've got a south-facing garage with a dark coloured door, the surface temperature can become significantly hotter than the outside air temperature.
Even on a day that's 30 degrees outside, the metal itself can become much hotter after hours in direct sunlight.
The heat transfers throughout the door, into the guides, into the frame, and even into some of the hardware.
Suddenly, everything is just that little bit tighter than when it was on a cool spring morning.
Let's start with something we all learnt at school but probably haven't thought about since.
It doesn't matter whether we're talking about steel, aluminium, timber or plastic.
Now we're not talking about inches here, the movement is usually measured within millimetres, but when you're dealing with a product that's designed with very fine tolerances, even a couple of millimetres can completely change how something feels when it operates.
If you've got a south-facing garage with a dark coloured door, the surface temperature can become significantly hotter than the outside air temperature.
Even on a day that's 30 degrees outside, the metal itself can become much hotter after hours in direct sunlight.
The heat transfers throughout the door, into the guides, into the frame, and even into some of the hardware.
Suddenly, everything is just that little bit tighter than when it was on a cool spring morning.
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