Is your garage door hard to lift by hand.
Garage door too heavy to lift manually.
Pull the emergency cord on your door opener and gently lift your garage door.
Usually a properly working garage door will roll open easily due to the torque in the springs but it is important to lift with your back straight up.
Open the door fully by hand.
We recommend having a maintenance done to your garage door every 12 to 18 months.
If your garage door spring is failing or broken it will not provide enough force to lift the garage door.
Lift up the door halfway from the inside using one of the cross members.
Bending over and attempting to put your weight into the door may result in lower back injuries.
Many doors we encounter do not have the proper size spring s installed.
I was thinking about taking a couple steel rods and adjust the torsion spring myself.
Many older drums are not correct for doors with heavy top sections such as those with windows.
If the door remains at the halfway position.
An unbalanced door can make the door difficult to raise manually and can cause damage to other components in the garage door system.
Close the garage door.
Consider updating the drums that guide the lifting cables.
If the spring is not the proper size the door will not be balanced.
Position a stepladder at the area of the automatic opener.
I had a company came and replaced the spring once years ago and the guy must not have wound it to the correct amount.
Instead you want to lift with your lower body as if you are picking up a heavy box.
So my 2 car garage door takes at least 30 50lb to lift manually.
If the spring is to small the door will be difficult to open if the spring is to large the door will be difficult.
For safety reasons don t try to solve the problem yourself.
Unplug the power cord to the opener.
Raynor s new trubalance drums can provide 87 better balance throughout the full open close motion.
The result will be that the door will be too heavy to lift by yourself or the opener because a standard garage door opener is only designed to move the door with 10 pounds of pressure.
