How to easily maintain your garage
Very rarely used to store a car, and often filling up with junk and useless items, garages are one of the hardest parts of the house to keep maintained. This is especially harder being a working mom – but all isn’t lost.
Here we’ll go through a number of ways you can keep you garage maintained, from looking after the garage door to ensuring everything else stays clean and tidy.
How to maintain your garage door
Your garage door is often the only thing standing between the outside world and your possessions. Also, if your garage is connected to your home, a solid, well-maintained door can also help with insulation.
Faults can occur with heavy duty doors though, and so it’s important to keep on top of them. First of all, we recommend that you inspect your garage door once a month. Check the hinges and tracks for dirt, the locks for rust and outside appearance for any evidence of wear and tear. Wooden doors can expand in the cold due to humidity, so ensure you treat them. Overall, keeping care of your garage door will pay dividends in the long-run.
Keep care of garage flooring
The first thing you should consider is reducing the amount of potential slips and falls. This can be done by ensuring the floor is flat and coated properly. We advise you opt for granite flooring, with many businesses such as granitegaragefloors.com/, offering quality services at costs which won’t break the bank. While investing in your floor might not be the first thing you’d consider, by keeping up with it and ensuring its well maintained, it will last for a very long time.
To ensure your flooring remains fresh we advise regular cleaning, which will reduce the effect of oil stains, tyre marks and dirt. Initially sweep dirt and dust away and then inspect the floor for any damage – focusing on any stubborn or standout marks. These can be removed with any good concrete degreaser, used to brush away stains gently. If you do opt for a coating, avoid any acidic cleaners moving forwards, as they can result in a loss of shine. If you do want to refresh your garage floor then you can always paint it – a good anti-slip pain is always useful, ensuring the floor remains fresh and also safe.
Ensure all garage electrics are safe
If you’d like to avoid electric shocks or avoid getting trapped in the dark, then you need to make sure that all your garage electrics are up to shape. While we appreciate you’re busy, by doing so twice a year, you ensure the safety of everybody in your household. First of all, you need to make sure you’ve got appropriate lighting – this will again reduce the risks of slips. From here you should check that all lights are working, while also keeping spares is advice worth taking.
Finally, if your garage has any plug sockets, make sure to check them intermittently. Testers are cheap and available everywhere from the internet to online stores – although some cheaper models have had issues – so grab one and give yourself peace of mind. Sockets in a garage space are often susceptible to damp, so make sure you pay special attention to them.
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