Uneven Garage Door Closing

This page should help you troubleshoot your garage door problems.

Uneven garage door closing.

In some cases a simple fix like tightening the hinges is enough. When your new garage door was installed the installers took great care to make sure the door was flush with your floor and seated properly to keep out the rain snow and wind. If there is a little gap at the bottom of your garage door on one side or your garage door has been jerking back and forth it s probably because there s uneven tension from the springs. From inside your garage close your garage door.

Garage door openers have an adjustment screw that controls the closing force the pressure with which a door is allowed to descend before the motor switches off. We have products in stock to close a gap up to about 2 inches on either side of the door and still. If the door was closing too quickly move the spring to the next higher hole on the bracket. At some point in time every homeowner in the portland area with a garage and garage door will experience a crooked and unbalanced garage door.

If you live in the portland area and your garage door becomes misaligned it is important to know what to do and who to call. Check the space under the bottom door edge to be sure it is tight against the floor surface. This can happen for a number reasons including broken and rusted springs from the heavy and regular rain in portland worn down cables from use and even broken or missaligned rollers. My garage has an uneven floor.

If it was opening too quickly move it to the next lower hole. My garage has an uneven floor. Retest the door balance as you did in step 1. Push the door back to adjust the door and get the center aligned again.

By pushing the door back into position you should have made the vertical track straighten. There are a lot of things that feel a little uneven in your life and your garage door shouldn t be one of those things you re still trying to balance at the end of the day. Check that it is straight. Other times the misaligned door requires a more challenging repair like shimming the hinges.

It is possible that the vertical track down the side has gone out of alignment and shifted due to a slightly loose lag screw. Adjust the springs on both sides of the door the same way. If when closing your door its bottom edge contacts the floor and then reverses direction and raises again you will need to adjust your close force. One of the more difficult problems for do it yourselfers to diagnose is a worn cable pulley on an extension spring door.