Garage Door Too Heavy

Opening and closing the door with springs that are too small can end up damaging your garage door and your opener.

Garage door too heavy.

A properly balanced garage door weighs about 10 to 15 pounds which can easily be lifted with one hand. In the first example the spring is too small. You just added 1 3 to 1 4 of the weight to it. We provide top quality amarr overhead doors and can deliver them to your home or have them installed by our network of qualified garage door contractors.

Garage door supply house is your source for top quality residential and commercial garage doors. Door will be difficult to close. Springs are rated in cycles for specific sized doors. There could be several issues preventing your door from lifting easily.

If the door is heavier it is highly. When the spring is too small the door is way too heavy. Springs are too big. If the tension is too loose the springs that help lift the door are ineffective and the weight of the door makes this unsafe.

Sure you can add a couple of turns to the spring. So my 2 car garage door takes at least 30 50lb to lift manually. I had a company came and replaced the spring once years ago and the guy must not have wound it to the correct amount. A perfectly balanced door with the proper sized spring s will be.

But what that will do is severely shorten the life of the springs. In the second example the springs are too big they are also too strong for the door. Put simply heavy duty elastic coils designed to support a given garage door s weight by generating a high level of torque or rotating force perpendicularly to the pivot point. Pull the emergency cord on your door opener and gently lift your garage door.

If it s a standard 16x7 door you re talking 150 200 lbs with no insulation. Garage door is too heavy to open manually. I was thinking about taking a couple steel rods and adjust the torsion spring myself. Order your new garage door online and save.

If the spring or springs are to large the garage door will try to open itself an can cause damage to the garage door or any of its parts including the garage door opener if one is installed. If the spring or springs are too small the garage door will feel heavy. If the spring is to small the door will be difficult to open if the spring is to large the. Too much tension equates to a door that doesn t close all the way or.

While garage door torsion springs can handle weights of up to 800 lbs. Or more the energy they conserve is sufficient to cause a major injury or even death. Very easy to open and close manually and will weigh around 5 15 lbs.