If your door grinds, rattles or shakes as it moves, worn rollers are usually why.
The door is loud enough to hear through the house. It shakes or shudders instead of gliding.
You can see flat spots or wobble on the wheels. Rollers that have seized stop rolling and start dragging along the track.
Most doors ship with basic steel rollers that get loud as the bearings wear out. Nylon rollers with sealed bearings run far quieter and last longer.
If your garage is attached to the house, or there is a bedroom above it, the difference is obvious the first time the door runs.
A dragging roller pulls the door out of alignment, wears the track, and puts extra load on the opener.
Left long enough it is how a door ends up off its track. Rollers are cheap. What they damage is not.
Nylon roller upgrade is part of our $79 tune-up, along with a full safety inspection, rails degreased, hinges and bolts tightened, and springs and cables lubricated.
If your door is noisy but nothing is broken, the tune-up is usually the right call.
Basic steel rollers often start getting loud after five to seven years of daily use. Nylon rollers with sealed bearings typically last much longer and stay quiet the whole time.
