the most durable garage door rollers on the market are going to be of commercial grade. They even make a type of roller called a car wash roller with sealed precision bearings and nylon or a material called UHMW coating on the wheels for businesses that deal with a lot of water near the garage door. Most commercial garage doors are easily 10 to 20 even 25 foot tall and a roller to keep this store in the track must be hardened steel heavy-duty 11 inch stems sealed bearings solid steel roller and have about 100,000 cycles of life.
These rollers are also rated for Highwinds areas.
Because doors that are 12 to 20 feet tall are very susceptible to crash down if the rollers are not strong enough to hold the top of the door. The wind could crash the whole top of the door in in about 50 to 60 Mph winds easily if a roller is not capable of handling that kind of pressure. These rollers are 3 inches in diameter and are basically only used in commercial applications but if a residential garage door is of solid custom wood then sometimes you will come across a 3 inch roller in a residential home just because of the she’ll wait in size of the door.
commercial grade equipment requires two men
If your residential garage door has this type of equipment then you definitely have a commercial grade door just in weight and size And you should be aware that if you have a home warranty policy that they usually don’t cover commercial grade equipment on residential homes. I have worked for garage door companies that do a lot of home warranty work and the homeowners that have this type of equipment they will get denied because the equipment is so heavy duty and it takes a lot of extra labor to work on commercial grade garage door equipment. Most of the time because commercial grade equipment requires two men instead of just one. And every time the customer argues that how can that be they go and get their contract and it’s right there in black and white this policy does not cover commercial grade equipment.
residential garage door rollers
As far as residential garage door rollers the most durable ones will be solid steel roller 10 ball bearings And will have a bulged shoulder to be Zink plated hardened tire deep grooved and about 15,000 cycles of lifespan. So if you put mathematics to it then if your rollers are rated for 15,000 cycles then that is a lifespan of about 20.5 years. That means you open and close your garage door in the morning and then open and close your garage door in the evening when you get home. So if you put the math to a commercial grade roller for a car wash or a local mechanic shop that works on cars and he opens his door in the morning and then closes it at night when he locks up then that is 100,000 days if you put the math to it that’s 273.9 years Of life. Now that would have to be the best roller on the market today. I think you could put a lifetime warranty stamp on that kind of longevity. Even if you have a basic roller that only has 10,000 cycles then the lifecycle on the roller like that you would get about 13 1/2 years life of that type of roller. And this is based on opening the door and closing the door twice a day and that’s it. So if you use your garage for storage and almost never open the garage door that they can pretty much outlive you.