Old Springs - Your garage door’s springs are arguably the most important and most dangerous part of your door. Springs wear out. When they break, injury can result. If you have an older garage door, have your springs inspected by a professional technician and replaced if needed. If your door has two springs, both should be replaced, even if one is not broken. This will not only prevent any damage caused by the breaking of the second spring, but also keep your door working efficiently.
Loud Springs - Springs can squeak and be noisy. This is caused by normal use and does not necessarily indicate a problem. Before calling a professional service technician, use a spray-on lubricant (recommended especially for garage doors). If the noise persists, call a professional garage door installer for service.
WARNING - Springs are under high tension. Only qualified persons should adjust them.
Garage door springs, cables, brackets, and other hardware attached to the springs are under very high tension and, if handled improperly, can cause serious injury. Only a qualified professional or a mechanically experienced person should adjust them, but only by carefully following the manufacturer's instructions.
The torsion springs (the springs above the door) should only be adjusted by a professional. Do not attempt to repair or adjust torsion springs yourself.
A restraining cable or other device should be installed on the extension spring (the spring along the side of the door) to help contain the spring if it breaks.
WARNING - Never remove, adjust, or loosen the screws on the bottom brackets of the door. These brackets are connected to the spring by the lift cable and are under extreme tension.
Lubrication
Regularly lubricate the moving parts of the door. However, do not lubricate plastic idler bearings. Consult the door owner's manual for the manufacturer's recommendation.
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Little Elm is a city in Denton County, Texas, United States and a part of the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex. The population was 3,646 at the 2000 census. By the 2010 census, the city total had jumped to 25,898. Current estimates show the population to be 26,850, making Little Elm one of the fastest growing municipalities in Texas since 2000 in terms of percentage.
Transportation
The high rate of growth in recent years has caused traffic problems during morning and evening rush hour. Little Elm has two main arteries that run though the middle of the town - FM 720 (Eldorado Parkway) going east towards Frisco, TX and north/northwest to US 380, and FM 423 going north to US 380 and south to Texas 121 in The Colony, TX. FM 423 is two lanes southbound from Stonebrook Parkway south and one lane north from The Colony city limit; Eldorado Parkway is four lanes through Little Elm from FM 423 to FM 720, but is two lanes west of FM 720, thus exacerbating the traffic problem.
Current traffic projects include the widening of Eldorado Parkway and the widening of FM 423. Eldorado Parkway and FM 423 are state projects and are just getting underway. Completion of these projects is estimated to be 2013-2014. The Lewisville Lake Toll Bridge is a North Texas Tollway Authority project and was opened to the public on August 1, 2009.
The North Texas Tollway Authority has recently completed the Dallas North Tollway Extension Phase III, in September 2007.
Appeal
Residential growth in Little Elm has been fueled by low costs for new housing. For the past decade, large scale suburban development has been approaching from the south and east. As land prices in the adjacent cities of The Colony and Frisco climbed, development in Little Elm has soared.
Little Elm also retains a small-town atmosphere. Little Elm provides close access to fishing and
water sports on Lake Lewisville with one of the few low fee boat ramp access points on the Lake.
[edit] Education
The Little Elm Independent School District [5] serves most of Little Elm. Little Elm ISD is one of the fastest growing in Denton County. The school district just finished building its state of the art high school athletic stadium in 2006 located at the intersection of Hart Road and Eldorado Pkwy. The stadium is also one of the largest in the area.
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