We have this same issue and we’re thinking of replacing the edging of the garage door. These bloodsuckers will tell you to replace the entire door! It’s crazy, we will look into this idea, thank you for sharing.
Worked like a charm, Home Depot and Lowe's didn't have 8 footers but HK Metals, a family business hardware store in Riverside, CA had them in stock for $20 each. Thanks for the tip and good video Vickie, save me a big bucks..
Bought a 1/2”x1/2”x8’ aluminum angle bar with 1/32 thickness at Lowe’s. Cut into two pieces and riveted between each crack. Working so far. Looks cleaner.
Same thing happened to mine. Garage door guy said it couldn’t be fixed or it would happen again. He wanted to charge me $900 for a new door. I told him no thanks. Called another garage door guy. He added 2 new struts (the long silver bars) on the top & second panels plus the support angles like you have. Garage door works great. Cost me $150.
The words you were looking for are that the motor and track must be aligned perpendicular (90 degrees) both horizontally and vertically from the door on two axes from the center point. Secondly, I don't understand why you guys offset your additional support bars to the left side. It would be a lot better to get longer ones which can be set equidistant from the center. When closing, it looks like you still had some bowing occurring because the right supports only extend around 20".
So the black door arm in the middle if you adjust that so instead of straight out have it at a angle then go to the limit switch on the side of the garage door opener adjust the downed limit and the upper limit it would have a tighter seal on the top panel
Finally someone makes a simple but, very helpful hints and ideas to try and see if it fixes the problems.......Thanks!!
Thanks Vickie great explanation of your fix.
We have this same issue and we’re thinking of replacing the edging of the garage door. These bloodsuckers will tell you to replace the entire door! It’s crazy, we will look into this idea, thank you for sharing.
Worked like a charm, Home Depot and Lowe's didn't have 8 footers but HK Metals, a family business hardware store in Riverside, CA had them in stock for $20 each. Thanks for the tip and good video Vickie, save me a big bucks..
Thanks for sharing. I’m going to try this before I replace my door
Thank you David. Good luck!
Bought a 1/2”x1/2”x8’ aluminum angle bar with 1/32 thickness at Lowe’s. Cut into two pieces and riveted between each crack. Working so far. Looks cleaner.
Less than $9 and 1 hour of work.
Same thing happened to mine. Garage door guy said it couldn’t be fixed or it would happen again. He wanted to charge me $900 for a new door. I told him no thanks.
Called another garage door guy. He added 2 new struts (the long silver bars) on the top & second panels plus the support angles like you have. Garage door works great. Cost me $150.
The words you were looking for are that the motor and track must be aligned perpendicular (90 degrees) both horizontally and vertically from the door on two axes from the center point. Secondly, I don't understand why you guys offset your additional support bars to the left side. It would be a lot better to get longer ones which can be set equidistant from the center. When closing, it looks like you still had some bowing occurring because the right supports only extend around 20".
So the black door arm in the middle if you adjust that so instead of straight out have it at a angle then go to the limit switch on the side of the garage door opener adjust the downed limit and the upper limit it would have a tighter seal on the top panel
Can you make a video ?
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An angle on the arm contributed to the bow in the garage door on ours.
My dad had the same thing happen too.
You really need a top panel nothing else don’t know why they have to replace all of those things
Nicce work. Wow, $900 to do all that work?? Might as well buy a new door at that point. Nice job fixing it
Uhhh, is Jamie Lee Curtis narrating this???
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