Fun And Games Installing Garage Doors

There are people who make their living putting in garage doors

. They do it every working day. There are procedures that they follow to make it possible that the doors are installed correctly. An improperly installed garage door poses a menace to anybody who may come into contact with it.

An incorrectly put in garage door could appear to be very heavy when it is lifted. If that's the case the door must be balanced. A correctly balanced door should stay about one half way up without anybody or anything touching it. If it is stopped at one half the way up and it wants to continue up by itself or desires to go down, then adjustments have to be made with the spring tension or torsion.

If a door comes off of its track it may be because it was not properly installed. A more frequent reason is that one of the cables that lifts the door has broken. When this happens the door will get pulled from one side, however not the other , causing it to depart from its tracks. Placing a door back on its track is probably one of many extra risky jobs garage door technicians must perform.

Yet another reason that a garage door also can come off its track is that the tracks themselves are not aligned with one another .

Garage Door experts work very hard to align the tracks so that they are matching and aligned correctly to the door opening. Nevertheless sometimes brackets pull loose from their connections to either the wall or the ceiling and the tracks lose their positioning.

If ever this happens to your garage door's tracks, you can imagine the difficulty it cause with your garage door.

Putting in springs can in some cases be a challenge. This is specially true of torsion springs. They wind around a bar at the top of the door's opening. The bar then transfers the spring's torsion to a pulleys at either side of the door. These pulleys then have the cable wound around them that greatly assists the door to go up. The system has to be set correctly or the entire door will be effected.

Homeowners sometimes take it upon themselves to install garage door openers. While a homeowner carefully following instructions are able to install an opener, usually they decide to leave the project to a experienced technician. The major cause for problems with opener installation is to make sure the operator unit gets put in the correct spot and is securely mounted to the garage ceiling.

The opener's electrical power has to be connected correctly. If power is available to the site, usually because a garage door light was installed when the home was built, that's good. If not, then power must be found elsewhere. For a job to be done correctly, power should be pulled through the garage ceiling from the electrical panel. This will make a neat installation. It may also put the garage door opener on its own circuit.

An experienced crew can install most garage doors relatively quickly. Usually no more than one day's work. It's not a job for everyone, but the finished job can produce some beautiful results.

by: Curt Levinsky

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