How To Install A Side Garage Door

Replace them with 2 inch deck screws for strength.

How to install a side garage door.

Center and level the first section after you install the brackets. Be sure the bar is centered on the panel. This old house general contractor tom silva shows how to assemble and hang a new garage door. Use impact driver to mount hinges to the bottom panel of garage door.

See below for a shopping list and tools subscribe to this ol. Installing the door yourself and consulting the garaga installation manual included in the box. Drill pilot holes image 1 and secure the bar with screws. Use the door shims if needed.

The installation of your garage door. Or having the door installed by a garaga authorized dealer. Remove the door from the pre hung frame by removing the hinge pins. Align a hinge in 1 of the corners and in the center of the panel then screw them in place.

After moving house the other year one of the first things i agreed with my wife we would do is install a garage side door. The rubber gasket on the bottom section will fill the gaps created by an unlevel floor. There are two possibilities to choose from. The door must be level even if the floor isn t so use shims under the section to level it.

Next set the doorframe in the opening and center it in the opening. To hold the level in place tape it to the section. Attach hinges to the top of each panel image 2. Screw cable brackets to the door to secure the weather stripping.

Garage side doors are really useful to have. Stand the bottom door panel on the floor in the garage doorway. Remove one screw from each of the hinges in the doorframe. You ll install the hinges the same way you did before only this time you ll leave the trackless side empty.

Attach weather stripping to the bottom edge of garage door. If you re installing a two car garage door place a reinforcing bar on the top panel to prevent the door from bowing in the center. Install 2 hinges on the next door panel.