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I have question about the arage door spring?

What is the safest easiest way to replace the garage door spring. The kind that is above the garage door. Its a .250 (I think) spring.

I told my husband call Lowes and they said they aren’t allowed to sell the torsion springs.

They do sell extension springs but not torsion springs.

The spring is broken so theres no tension in it.

Answer:

Be safe and have a pro come out and do it.If you have to much tension on it you can get badly hurt..

Because torsion springs are very dangerous to install. You have to know what you are doing. If you’ve never done it before, hire a professional. I’ve done it but I have had a lot of experience in maintenance and even then I was very nervous, but careful. If you lose you grip while tightening them you could get hurt badly. There has to be just enough tension to assist in opening the door and keeping it up without falling from it’s own weight.

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My garage door dont pick up with the door?

My Garage doors runs but does not pick up the door?

The motor of the garage runs but the door remains stationary. What the problem of it? 

So we have to pick up the door by our hand but can not with the romote. 

Answer:

I think there may the follow reason causing your problem:

the gears are plastic inside the box and will wear out. they can be replaced

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Where to buy the door opener for my garage door?

I have an older Sears garage door, lost the garage door openers. Can I buy a generic one and program it?

Answer:

The best thing to do with that is get the model number of the opener and google it.

Now if you see something about Security+ it means you garage has rolling code. If that is true, you will need to buy one that has the same freq. If it is, there will be a button up on the door motor, mine is orange. You will need to press that button on the motor and the button on the remote to tell the garage door to accept it. They have some nice options, even key chain remotes for like $25.

Now you said it was older, so it may not have that. If there is a series of dip switches on the motor you will need to set the same dipswitchs on the remote. Again you will need to buy the right one for the door opener.

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Why my garage door reopen while it hits the ground?

My garage door will automatically reopens after it hits the ground.?

can any one assist telling me how to fix the garage door or what may be wrong. More often then not I am left sitting in my drive way clicking the remote to my garage door hoping on the next close that it will stay closed. For some reason when it hits the ground, it automatically reopens. i have checked the child saft sensors and their is nothing obstructing them. What might be wrong, hwo can i fix this?

This is a belt drive garage door opener. The doro and opener are about 6 moths old.

Answer:

When your garage door opens and closes there are two switches that it trips (one for when it opens and one for when it closes). These will normally be by the belt drive casing or near the railing at the sides. These can be adjusted forwards or backwards to control how far the door opens and how far it closes. What is probably causing your problem is that the switch that gets tripped when your garage door closes is too far forward allowing it to hit the ground before it trips the switch to stop the garage door. Garage doors have a pressure sensitive mechanism on them for safety reasons. If the door hits an object when it is closing it will stop and raise back up. This is so it won’t crush a kid or a person if they happed to be under the garage door when it closes. Since your switch to stop the garage door is too far forward or possibly broken your garage door sensors think the door has hit an obstruction when it hits the ground and therefore it raises. If adjusting the trigger switch doesn’t work, you might try adjusting the pressure it takes to send the garage door back up. It could possibly be too sensitive. That adjustment should be located on the garage door motor. Only adjust that AFTER you have already tried moving the trigger to stop the garage door when it closes.

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Why my garage door open and close by itself?

My garage door is opening and closing by itself, as if someone else has the same frequency.?

My garage brand name is “Genie Excellerator” and I often find the garage door is up upon returning home,as if someone else had opened my door, even though I know I closed the door when I left the house.

Answer:

you can change the . frequency,
undo the back of your remote, and pre set the #s
say they were, 1234
change to 4321, the other remote must be changed as well

To address your question: We had the same problem for quite some time. We pushed the button and thought the garage door had gone down as we drove off. But it had not. The device that fits over head in the garage was not working properly and sometimes it closed, sometimes it didn’t and sometimes he came down halfway and stopped. Had to replace the whole unit.

To the second part: Yes, someone else could have the same frequency. There are crooks who drive around testing out their remote controls to see if they can open garage doors because they KNOW there are same frequencies. Contact the company and ask them what to know. I wish I knew the answer it would save you the call and frustration but I don’t. Good Luck.

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Have you ever build a overhead garage door?

I brought a 1956 old house last year. 

The garage door is in fine shape, but sticks too often to say its a non-issue. I do have minimal carpentry experiece in that I can run base or crown, fab and trim a window sill, and construct a wall or tear one down and replace it with a beam. My problem is I cannot find a how to on constructing a garage door. I want to know if this is something I can tackle? Because, the alternitive of a new steel door would not mesh with the look of the old house as you can imagine. Any sound advise helps. I need to know evrything from the most basic to potential problems to necessary tools please advise…

Answer:

Mark it to see where it is sticking, sand or cut off the obstuction. Use line chalk on the rails. You may have a rail that moved out of position or lost some of its fasteners causing a bind periodically. Does weather have anything to do with your problem?

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How to install a new garage door?

I just buy a garage door, how to diy to install the garage door by myself?

Answer:

I have attach one good article for your reference.How this can help you.

Sources:http://www.hgtv.com/hgtv/rm_door_window_installing/article/0,1797,HGTV_3684_1395171,00.html

Hosts Pat Simpson and Jodi Marks show how to install a new, safer garage door that has been designed for do-it-yourselfers. For safety reasons, they recommend hiring professionals to remove the old door.

Take Measurements

1. We began by taking the measurements of the door opening. We started by measuring the door opening width and height.
2. Next, we measured for the side room for the installation of the vertical track and the spring.
3. We then measured for the headroom, which is the distance between the top of the door opening and the ceiling. You should have about 10 to 12 inches of headroom available depending on the spring system you’re installing.
4. Finally, we measured for the backroom. You need at least the door height plus 18 inches for proper installation.

Prepare Door Sections

1. Our first step in preparing the door sections was to temporarily attach the stops to both sides of our opening.
2. Laying the first section over covered sawhorses, we attached the hardware using the supplied sheet metal screws.
3. Next, we attached the #1 hinge to the pre-punched holes along the top edge of the section.
4. We attached a lift handle on both sides of the door section using the supplied fasteners.
5. Next, we carefully lifted and set the bottom section in the opening so that it was centered from side to side against the stop molding.
6. We used a 4′ level to be sure that our door section was level.
7. To temporarily hold the section in place, we drove a16d nail into the frame and bent it over the section.

Figure A (Click to enlarge)

Install Door Sections

1. We placed the second panel on top of the first and drove nails into the side jambs to hold it in place; then we installed the third section. Be sure to check the numbers on the hinges and install them in the proper order.
2. When we got to the last panel, we placed it over the sawhorses and attached the top roller bracket.
3. We then placed the last door panel on top of the others, drove in a nail for temporary support, and attached the hinges from the top of the previous section to the bottom of the last section (figure A).
4. Finally, we placed a roller in the top and bottom brackets and in the outer tubes in each of the hinges at the ends of each section.

	Figure B (Click to enlarge)
Figure C (Click to enlarge)

Figure E (Click to enlarge)

Install Torsion Springs

1. We began assembling the torsion tube by pushing the tube sections firmly together in the coupler, drilling pilot holes and securing them with screws.
2. We prepared the torsion spring assembly by sliding the torsion spring, winding unit and cable drums onto the shaft.
3. We carefully placed the spring assembly and tube in each bracket above the door (figure E) and then tightened the screws in the cone to the torsion tube before securing the spring to the bracket.
4. We attached the cables starting with the left side. We pulled the cable up from the bottom bracket and tightened the setscrew on the drum.
5. Next, we inserted our drill into the winding unit and wound the appropriate number of turns to set the tension for the spring.
6. Finally, we installed the tube retainers on either side of the door.

Final Touches

1. We secured the stop molding around the perimeter of both garage openings using 3d galvanized finishing nails. The stop molding will help seal the garage from the elements.
2. To attach the interior slide bolt, we secured it with screws on the end style of the door and then tested its operation. We repeated the same procedure for the slide bolt lock on the other garage door.
3. To finish this project we applied a coat of primer to the raw wood trim around our opening. After it had completely dried we applied a finish coat of paint.

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Garage door opener just hums..?

The Garage door of my house opener just hums… doesn’t lift the door.

The power is on,becasue the light on the garage door is still on.

The Remotes as well as the door opener on the wall all function same. I can manually lift the door.

Answer:

I think the situtation could be the gears are out and the motor is running but not moving the door. Take the cover off and if a bunch of white stuff falls out, the gears are gone. You can get gear kits for around 25-30 dollars depending on which brand you have

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Does garage door opener must do auto-reverse when it rolls down?

My house buyer inspector checked my house garage door opener, and said that my garage door opener does not auto-reverse when some object (like hands) try to block at the bottom of the garage door when it rools down, but not interfering the laser beam !!

My garage door opener does reverse when laser beam detects anything when door goes down, but does not reverse when object are not in the middle of the laser sensors. Is this violating the building code ? Is this supposed to cause concerns of hosue inspection ? It is GENIE opener and do not know the model number, what can I do to make it reversable when object blocks, but not in between the laser sensor ?

Answer:

You need to reduce the downward force setting. Refer to your instruction manual. There are two dials on the panel, near where the wires go into the machine. Turn them a little, then test the door. You should be able to stop it with your hands, and make it reverse.
IT’s not violating the building code, but it’s something the buyers can use against you.

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Why my garage door can not colse several times per day?

We have a Sears Garage Door Opener, and during the mid afternoon the door will not respond to either the remotes or the door closer in the garage. It just starts blinking and retracts back to open.

I am sure that it is the sunlight that is causing the problem, but we have already tried some of the normal fixes for that problem. Here is what we have tried, with no luck:

1) Replacing the sensors
2) Realigning the sensors
3) Toilet Paper rolls around sensors (to block out sun)

Aside from replacing the whole system, I am not sure what else to try.

Anyone have any good suggestions to fix this problem?

Answer:

If your sensors are causing the problem you should still be able to close the door by holding the wall button down until the door hits the ground. Not the remotes though, they are designed not to do this. They warn of this sunlight problem on Chamberlain operators, but I have never seen one do this. Chamberlains’ tech support # is 1-800-528-6563. Your down safety reverse might be set too low. Adjust it according to the owners’ manual. Let me know what you find.

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