Best Way to Hang Garage Door Motors
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 14 ก.ค. 2024
- Hanging a garage door opener motor can be a challenge if you don't have that right perforated angle brackets a.k.a. Punch Angle. This video covers some of the best ways to hang a garage door opener motor with proper punch angle. #garagedoormotorinstallation #garagedoormortorharness #garagedoors
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Tip: test the bracket with wood screws to see if the stuff is there if you have no stud Finder. The lags will leave big holes
In and Out!! Heck yes brother. Great info man. I love using a magnetic stud finder. Those electronic ones make me angry. I hulk smashed my old one after I bought a magnetic. You da man Santiago!
🤣🤣🤣🤣 I want to Hulk smash mine too. Do you recommend a particular magnetic stud finder?
@@sosgds I use this one. You can buy a 2 pack for less than $30. Another tool that was a game changer.
I made this video a long time ago. So I apologize for the lameness of it. But it'll give you an idea what it's about.
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I love it Richard! I will definitely be buying them. So very practical.
I also smashed my zircon stud finder
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Wow that's awesome I'm glad you are ok
Thank you! Appreciate your advice
Solid video. One point I think you should have made is if the opener is mounted far enough from the ceiling you should add a kicker to keep it from swinging back and forth. Congrats on 400 subs also!
Thank you so much. I'm honored to be a part of this community and share with everyone this knowledge on garage doors. And that's a great suggestion. But when you say "kicker" do you mean a spring bumper?
By kicker I'm talking about a diagonal piece of angle, kind of like on back hangs for the tracks
Yes! That's what I normally do. In fact my follow up to this video will be a "How-to" and I plan on adding that details. Thanks again for the great suggestion.
No problem! Looking forward to the video
@@TBHD724 Reminds me of my old place. The rafters were very far apart so someone ran the punch angle 4+ feet up to the roof peak. They thought they would be clever and splay the punch angle thinking that would keep it from rocking side to side, but it just resulted in an crooked mounted opener, lol. I just used some scrap aluminum angle to make a brace to hold it straight. I guess I coulda rehung the whole thing, but I wasn't that motivated. ;)
Then there was the extension cord they ran through the rafters to power it when there was perfectly good romex running right by it that simply needed a box installed. ;)
Thank you for recording and posting this valuable educational video.
great video. that’s how i hang them, and i actually do the angle iron on the inside, like u did on the genies, because if it’s a dual light where the learn but. is on the side, if a customer reaches up there, he doesn’t cut their hands, and it looks better IMO.
Thank you!!!!
Thank you! And you're welcome!😁
Also, for the particular people concerned with noise/vibration, there are some vibration isolating products out there that can be used when hanging openers. Of course, one also shouldn't really be just making up their own solutions without thinking, "how will this end up looking in 20 or 40 years?" (disclaimer >>>)Always remember soft vibration absorbing materials almost always have a limited life span, so have an idea of what it will look like when it fails.
Great suggestion! The 89LM. They work fairly well.
Hi I just install a garage opener with help of your videos. So my garage opener works great. But I notice the rail is not strait, is curves in the middle. Do I need to push it back more ? Any help will be appreciated. Thank you.
Hello! Does the curve move? What type of rail is the motor? Belt or chain? Genie? Chamberlain?
There is no such thing as a "standard" punched angle bracket. It is sold in different thicknesses for different purposes. While you may be able to use thin 16 punched angle bracket to hang a braced motor, you would want to use thicker 14 or 12 ga. to support the track depending upon the weight of the door. I learned this lesson the hard way when bought a door and punched angle from a garage door company that gave me 16 ga. punched angle without telling me because they had run out of 14 gauge and the door collapsed.
Thanks for the feedback!
Hey Santiago! What is the yellow tool you’re using to lift the opener with? I’ve always just used my ladder but that looks pretty simple… and I always see it in your installs!
Hello Chase! It is a stand that I can get locally here in the Southern California area from a distributor. It's ideal for holding up garage door motors and in some cases garage doors. I've had many ask about it and I'm not sure why there's no one in the industry that is making a similar design or a design that offers some competition. Because the distributor that I purchased it from doesn't sell outside of the state. But if you can find it it's an excellent tool to use for garage door jobs. Y'all stay safe!
John, I have a unique situation, I know everyone’s is unique. But really this one is. The front of my garage sticks out 2 feet from the house. On top of that inside the garage there is a support from the house that goes through the garage that will not allow the door lifting chain rail puller to go all the way to the front above the door. Any ideas. Would like to try and do this myself. I believe would need a bar about 2 feet long from the door to the motor drive chain rail. Any ideas?
Hello! Great question.
How much head room space do you have above the garage?
How tall is your garage door?
What angle 📐 should the garage door opener/motor be placed at? My motor slightly slopes down vs where the other end of the rail is installed against the garage door. My chamberline rail slightly bows when the door is in transit.
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I have a high ceiling in my garage so is there a length you shouldnt exceed with the punch angle and should move up to a solid steel angle? Great video.
Thanks for the support. And that is a great question. You should be ok with 8-10 foot punch angle but you want to make sure you have adjacent supports to maintain a sturdy install. How tall exactly are your ceilings?
@@sosgds rough estimate would be about 24"-26". Thanks for the reply.
@@robertz2557 My pleasure. You should be good within that measurement.
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My rafters go left to right, not front to back, so the angle iron that came with my garage door opener is not long enough. Why would these companies only provide 24" in. angle iron brackets when it needs to be longer to line up to the center of a 2x4... not edge to edge?!?!😡
That is a very good question. In all of our installs we never use the manufacturer provided angle iron.
0:49 Before attaching the support bracket to the ceiling structure, he holds the assembled garage door opener in place to determine where to attach the support brackets.
The motor appears to have several attachment points on each side for fastening vertical angle brackets. If none of the motor attachment points line up with joist or other support board in the ceiling, you may need to run the angle brackets parallel with the garage door rail assembly; with one rail on each side of the motor and attached to multiple boards.
Question, what gauge punch angle is preferred to hang the opener? Thanks
Great question. The a standard gauge comes standard in a 14 gauge. You can do a 16 gauge which is easier to cut.
@@sosgds thank you for the information this helped me out!
What do we cut it with??
@@xavierguzman4812 I use a 4" angle grinder with a metal cutting blade or a nice pair of metal snips. Of course, you have the trusty hacksaw. Good luck.
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How do I cut an angle bracket?
Hello. A pair of tin snips will work.
Where can I buy one of those garage operator stands?
Hello. It's sold from a local distributor here in Southern California.
@@sosgds how can I buy it? Do they have a website?
no stud above, now what?
Hello. If you have drywall above, code will require that there be a stud every 16". If you don't have drywall and/or it's an exposed ceiling then you will have to add additional wood for safe installation.
You never actually showed how to do any of this. Nine minutes of video with about 15 seconds of useful information.
Hello. Thanks for the feedback. I can definitely work up another video.
My question was is the rail on the opener supposed to be level?
Parallel to the ceiling?
Not a good video at all. Keeps telling you that he’s going to explain how to install punch angle, cut it to size etc, but doesn’t actually show what and how to do it.
I agree. I was hoping to see how to resolve the issue where you don't have a stud in the right place.
@@eiclkun You've probably solved your problem, but what I did was cut and screwed a rectangle piece of 3/4" plywood (or use a couple 2x4/6's) across two of the trusses, then lag screwed the punch hole brackets to that. Advantage is there is no drywall to get crushed as you tighten the lags up.
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hi where did you get your operator stand 2
:42 in your video? thanks
Hello Joe's GDS! There's distributor here in So. California known as Multi Sales. They are the only ones I know that sell this product. I've tried to locate it off the web, but without success. Here's their site: multisalesinc.com/ Maybe they can offer you more direction. Thanks for the feedback!
@@sosgds i have only seen them in California guys I haven't seen anyone using the up in the north east, thanks again always watch your video
Thank you for the support Jose's GDS! I honestly feel there should be a maker of these stands nationwide. I think if someone started to manufacture them it would sell well.
Here's another stand I've used. It's not a sturdy but it gets the job done.
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@@sosgds agreed. I will try the one you sent me, thanks again!