Using Garage Door Opener Without Springs

1 stand inside the garage and close the garage door paying attention to all the various moving parts springs.

Using garage door opener without springs.

If it s not a wind up torsion spring you can do this yourself. The garage door opener is only designed to open and close a properly balanced garage door. This is the long bar at the top of your garage door that the torsion springs are wrapped around. Yes springs are always going to be required.

Next get a sturdy ladder and get a closer view of your garage door opener s torsion shaft. Let s say you re looking at a seven foot extension spring 25 x 42. A garage door opener installation also requires knowledge of areas such as electrical wiring knowing how much horsepower is required for certain door weights and ensuring all safety measures work properly. At both ends of the torsion.

They install it correctly but then their garage door goes up and down incorrectly. Garage doors can weigh hundreds of pounds and the average person needs help to manually operate one. Extension springs are manufactured specifically for the height of a garage door. The weight of the garage door would be too much for the garage door opener to operate.

All that risky work for naught. Disconnect garage door opener power. Working on an open garage door without. Disconnect the power to your garage door opener and detach it from the opening mechanism.

Garage door extension springs run along the door s horizontal track and help to open and close your garage door as the springs stress and compress. Unfortunately many people only have a hazy idea of which garage door spring they need. Not sure if the units on the bar sides could be springs but perhaps some of you have seen a setup similar to this i have not the garage door opener was not operating as designed 100 jpg 800 600 34 kb. Garage door openers operate in various ways depending on style and manufacturer.

Converting your garage door from extension springs to torsion springs should cost around 285 00 for an 8 9 foot door 350 00 for a 15 16 foot door and 375 00 for 17 18 foot doors. That help is provided by torsion or extension springs. The springs are there to counteract the weight of the door. If one spring is broken the other does all the work and could eventually bend or warp your door unless it breaks first.

If the door is properly balanced and. Worse if they shrug their shoulders and use this door they will destroy their garage door opener. It will also wear out your new door opener.