How To Install Garage Door Installation

How to install a garage door step 1.

How to install garage door installation.

Begin installing your new door. At a home improvement store purchase some rubber weather stripping. Use impact driver to mount hinges to the bottom panel of garage door. 3 install the rollers and any necessary brackets on the garage door section and any wall or jamb mounted brackets according to the manufacturer s directions.

Installing a garage door step 1. Center and level the first section after you install the brackets. Use a tape measure to carefully record the length and width. You ll need to release the tension in the torsion spring before you begin working on the garage door.

Repeat at the other side. Lay weather stripping over the bottom door panel. Insert rollers into the brackets attached to the door. Measure the various areas where the door will be installed.

Placing the first panel and track 1. The door must be level even if the floor isn t so use shims under the section to level it. At one side of the doorway slip the vertical track onto the rollers of the first door section. The rubber gasket on the bottom section will fill the gaps created by an unlevel floor.

Install the second. Screw cable brackets to the door to secure the weather stripping. Attach weather stripping to the bottom edge of garage door. Measure the garage door opening before purchasing panels.

Door opening height and width headroom from top of. Insert the bottom piece into the door frame and use a level to properly set the piece. Stand the bottom door panel on the floor in the garage doorway.