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You might also like: Do Your Own Garage Door Opener Repair and Troubleshooting An annual garage door tune-up helps ensure reliable, quiet operation and safety. Each step of the tune-up takes 10 minutes or less and is worth it to keep your garage door in good working order. Perhaps no other part of your home experiences as much wear and tear as your overhead garage door. The average garage door will go up and down more than a thousand times a year. kept in good working order, it provides convenience and security. But a neglected door can not only become as noisy as a locomotive but also pose a significant safety risk to your family, especially your kids. In this article, we'll show the steps involved in the annual of your automatic overhead door for reliable, quiet operationMany of these tips also apply to overhead garage doors that don't have an automatic steps shown in the following photos require no special skills
shown in Photos 10 and 11, all the steps featured in the following photos apply to both types. To be safe while working on the door, take the
jeep wrangler 4 door for sale nj Unplug the automatic door opener so it can't be activated. If the door is open while you're working, clamp a locking pliers onto the roller track below a roller to keep it Never remove a lift cable while a door spring is underIf released, it'll cut Never attempt to adjust or release the tension on an This is a job for garage door Inspect your door's hardware Maintain springs, chains and seals Replacing a U-Shaped Astragal on a Steel Door The hollow rubber weather seal on the bottom of steel doors is called a U-shaped astragal and is subject to damage from wear and mice. U-shaped astragals are sized
according to their width as they lieChoose the width that best fitsUse a larger seal if you need to fill a wider gap between the door and the garageThe best source for U-shaped astragals is a garage door dealer. Steps to a safer door great strides in improving the safety of garage doors and garage door openers. One of the biggest improvements is the addition of photoelectric eyes on door mounted above the floor and cause a closing door to reverse when movement is detected in the door opening. If you have an older style replacing it with a new one that has all the latest safety costs from $100 to $150 and can be installed by a homeowner in two to four hours. A second safety improvement is adding a containment cable to extension spring- springs are mounted above extension spring breaks, the spring and cable become a heavy whip that can smash into cars or unsuspecting
cable stops the recoil. only $4 each and are available Follow the steps in Photos 10 and 11 to install one.There are two kinds of garage door springs -- torsion springs andTorsion springs are the kind wound-up on a rod above the garage door opening. There are a pair of them--one on each side of the center of the door. When one breaks the other often follows, so save the cost of another service call, and have both replaced when one breaks. been maimed and some killed tightening or releasing these springs. If you are hell bent on replacing one yourself rent a spring tensioning tool--probably have to find one at a garage door company. They look something like long handled bolt cutters but, the business end it a ratchet to hold the bar as you tension the spring. USING INDIVIDUAL CRANKING BARS IS DANGEROUS. is a chap who uses ridicule and sarcasm to say you're a woussie if you're afraid to do this job yourself, equating the danger to cleaning your gutters or
Keep in mind the many reports of people being maimed doing this as you read his quite thorough instructions, then decide if you want to spend 4-6 hours to earn about $70 this Clopay and Wayne-Dalton have a torsion spring that uses an electric drill to tension it. If you have this concept spring on your door, it's probably safe enough to do yourself. if you don't have this kind of spring now, you will have to remove the tension on your old style one to replace it and that's dangerous. The other kind of springs -- the kind that run along the upper, right and left door tracks, and extend/stretch to do their job, called extension springs -- are not as difficult or risky a home repair. However, some safety measuresRemember, when these springs are extended (door down) they are stretched to potentially deadly force--they may be lifting a 400 pound Here's the best how-to description I've been able to find on the net. Subject: Re: Help Replace Garage Door Spring
1.0 With the help of a friend, lift the door (it will be very heavy) to the fully open position, and place a pair of locking pliers (ViseGrips) on the door track directly under the bottom most roller which runs in the track. (Broken spring side of door). 2.0 Remove what's left of the broken spring. sheaves [pulleys] and replace them if there is significant wear in the bearings, and or if the sides of the sheaves are worn were the cables rub. 3.0 Take the broken spring to your local overhead door dealer and purchase two new springs, identical in length, diameter, and [gauge/wire size] as the broken sample. It's a good idea to pick up new lift cables as well, particularly if you notice any sign of kink or fraying. Remember to check those sheaves and replace if worn. 4.0 Don't disturb the unbroken spring yet as you will need to see how the cable is woven through the sheaves as you replace the brokenInstall the new spring, cable etc. ensuring that the spring is stretched
no more than about 1" (door fully open). You may have to adjust this 5.0 Move the locking pliers over to the other side of the door and replace the old unbroken spring, cable, etc. in the same 6.0 ENSURE THAT NOBODY IS STANDING NEAR THE SPRINGS. Remove the locking pliers and carefully lower the door with an eye on all thatAs the door nears the fully closed position, the sheaves located in the end of the spring, must not touch the other fixed sheave, and they might if you stretched the spring out too far when you installed it. Observe the anchor points of the spring to ensure there is no danger of them pulling free from their moorings. 7.0 If the door is heavy to lift and providing there is adequate space between the fixed sheave and the spring sheave, open the door, reposition the locking pliers, and stretch the spring out another 1" orDO NOT EXCEED THE AVAILABLE DISTANCE BETWEEN THE TWO SHEAVES THAT YOU OBSERVED WHEN THE DOOR WAS FULLY CLOSED.
8.0 Finally, make sure that there is safety cable installed, which runs through the springs, and anchored past the further most travel points of the springs. This is important to help retain the springs if they should ever break. I have seen these types of springs when unrestrained go right out through the roof, or wall on occasion, and I have also heard of cases of serious injury to people standing near a spring that has suddenly broken. my way of saying step 8 above. Add a safety cable if there isn't one already. safety cable is a roughly 3/16" braided steel cable threaded through the center of the spring (Thinking of the spring as a tube, the cable is threadedand anchored securely at each end (often to some part of the track support) and, positioned so it cannot interfere with opening and closing the door. This cable shouldn't beIf the spring breaks this cable will hold the parts, keeping them from shooting into Subject: Re: garage door spring broken, is that DIY?
> David Buxton wrote: > >This topic pops up from time to time. > >The advice is to always replace both springsThe cost of the second spring is small compared to the time of a The torsion springs over a garage door are really not a DIY project -- I suggest calling a pro. also suggest that you generously spray the new springs with a coat of light oil to forestall the corrosion that is the starting point for spring failure. >> I agree that this is not a DIY project. People have been killed or >> seriously injured by these springs. . . . Even the other types of springs (the non-torsion ones which are on the sides of the door) can beWhile they are DIY replaceable, unless you know exactly what you are doing, and take careful safety precautions, you can literally lose your head, or hand, or etc. they nicely bent a steel L-beam, despite it being reinforced with a triangulated steel bar. thing can happen while installing the new spring if it accidentally slips while under tension.