Garage Door Repair - Some Useful Tips

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Garage Door Repair

• Some Useful Tips

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Synopsis

• How to Repair Your Garage Door Cable
• How to Repair a Garage Door Cable
• All You Need to Know About Garage Door Remote
  Clickers
• Steps To Follow When Replacing Your Garage Door
  Torsion Spring
• How To Repair A Garage Door Opener
• How To Do Overhead Garage Door Repairs

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How to Repair Your Garage Door Cable

1. Disconnect the door opener from an electric
   outlet and remove arm from the opener.
2. Lock and clamp door closed using vise grip
   tracks.
3. Undo all the springs and keep you face away from
   the winding cone.
4. Loosen the drum and remove the cable from the
   cable drum.
5. Loosen the track and remove the bottom bracket
   and free the cable from it and remove the cable
   from the door. Attach the new cable into the
   bottom bracket and reinstall the fasteners and
   tighten them up. Place back the bracket to its
   original position.
6. Mount the cable in the drum, while ensuring it
   runs freely from the bottom brackets. Ensure the
   cable is well fixed on the cable drum and then
   you can gently tighten the screws on the cable
   drum.
7. Slip the winding bar inside the cone and wind it
   upwards. Fasten up the brackets and tighten the
   bolts. After both cables are installed and both
   cable drums are tightened down, you can release
   tension on the torsion spring.

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How to Repair a Garage Door Cable

• Lock down the door. This will involve clamping
  the door to the track. It is the most basic step
  as it ensures the safety of the remaining
  process. It will prevent the door from moving
  unexpectedly and causing damage while working on
  the cable
• Loosen the unbroken spring. On this task, winding
  bars are used. Here you shove a winding bar into
  the good spring through the winding cone. Then
  you loosen the two screws but hold the bar while
  doing such. As the screws are released, the
  spring will push.
• Unwind the unbroken spring. In this process, two
  winding bars are used. At the 900 position, the
  second bar is inserted. Remove the bottom bar and
  unwind the spring a quarter turn at a time. Then
  in that process, the winding bars will be
  leapfrogging with each turn.
• Springs disconnection from the Center bracket.
  This will involve removal of nuts and bolts.
  These nuts are the ones that fasten the
  stationary spring cones to the brackets. Then
  slide the springs towards the end brackets.

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How to Repair a Garage Door Cable

• Secure the torsion tube. This is done using
  locking pliers. To avoid disconnection, snap the
  locking pliers to the Center bracket then loosen
  the set screws on both left and right then snap
  it to the center bracket then loosen the set
  screws in the left and right lift cables so the
  cables could be disconnected.
• Remove the old spring. You must replace the old
  spring with a new one.
• Install left spring. Reassemble every other
  dismantled material and insert the new spring.
• Install a new Center bearing by connecting the
  stationary cones back to the bracket.
  Additionally, rusted parts has to be replaced.
  Some of these parts are bottom brackets, rollers
  and lift cables.
• Thread the candles by anchoring the cable in the
  slot
• Tighten the drums by equalling tension on both
  sides.
• Wind, stretch and lubricate the strings.

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All You Need to Know About Garage Door Remote
Clickers

• Programming Universal Garage Door Remote Clickers
• Manufacturers produce replacement remotes in case
  your existing remote get lost or damaged.
  However, there are also universal remote clickers
  that work perfectly with any garage door. The
  options are limitless. You can choose from array
  of products on the market based on your
  preference and specifications.
• The Remote Button
• The number of buttons on the remote clicker
  depends on the number of functionalities attached
  to it. In other words, the number of buttons is
  determined by the number of devices it controls.
  A remote can have up to four buttons. For
  instance, if your garage has two doors and a
  remote-controlled light, then your remote clicker
  should have three buttons.
• Wireless Keypad
• As a substitute for a garage door remote clicker,
  you can install a wireless keypad outside the
  garage door for the use of other authorized
  members of the family to have access to the
  garage. Some wireless keypads are programmed to
  open up to three garage doors. Instead of using a
  remote to open or close your door, you simply
  input your code. This becomes a very good
  alternative in case you lose your remote or when
  you have a guest visiting.

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Steps To Follow When Replacing Your Garage Door
Torsion Spring

• First, close the garage and unplug the door
  opener. Clutch the bars firmly on both ends
  cones. Keep your head away from the way of the
  winding cone, while you unwind the spring.
  Position yourself safely on a sturdy ladder. Wear
  safety glasses. Keep your clothes away from the
  springs.
• Take the measurements of the old and new springs
  to ensure you have the precise springs. Make
  marks on the drums and torsion shaft at each end
  to help you level the garage door after
  installing the new torsion springs.
• Stand firmly on a ladder and insert a
  well-fitting rod into the winding cone and unwind
  the broken torsion spring. As a precaution do not
  wind or unwind the springs using a screwdriver.
  Make count of the turns you make to unwind the
  spring, so that you will know how many turns to
  make while installing the new spring.
• Carefully remove the springs out towards the
  cable drum, and loosen the screws on the cable
  drum on the left garage door and ensure the drum
  can easily turn. Then take away the cable from
  the left of the drum.

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Steps To Follow When Replacing Your Garage Door
Torsion Spring

• Remove the cable from each sides of the drum.
  Unbolt the drum from the pole and take it off.
  Replace the new springs by first sliding the drum
  away from the bearing plate and slide the shaft
  to the left.
• Lining up with the markings you made earlier,
  re-install the torsion hardware by sliding the
  drum on the shaft, and then slip the shaft on the
  bearing. Then fasten the set screws into their
  original dent while rotating the drum to find the
  slots. Make sure the screws meet the shaft.
• Ensure that the new springs are properly
  installed on the exact sides of the center
  bracket. Then wind the springs.
• Remove the vise grips holding the garage door and
  slowly check to see if the door is functioning
  properly. Apply the recommended oil to the
  springs. Finally connect back the opener and plug
  in the power cable.

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How To Repair A Garage Door Opener

• The remote control and the wall switch do not
  control the door
• When both the remote and the switch do not
  control the garage door, it could be because the
  power source has been interrupted.
• The motor system also may have been unplugged.
  Ensure that the cord is plugged in to the door
  opener. It could also be because the motor has
  burned out. You will require a professional to
  fix the motor.
• The circuit breaker, fuse or GFCI, that controls
  the door may have been burned out or tripped. You
  will need to replace the burned out fuse or GFCI
  and circuit breaker. If they are tripping
  repeatedly, its a sign that there is a short
  circuit somewhere in the system.
• The garage door does not close entirely
• The safety sensors on the both sides of the door
  track are blocked and you need to remove anything
  blocking their sightline. Usually when this
  happens, the lights will gleam to indicate there
  is an issue with the door.
• You need to adjust the close-limit switch. If it
  is set wrong, it will inhibit the door from
  opening and closing correctly. The close-limit
  switch prevents people from being hit by the
  door.
• Damaged or rusted rollers will prevent the door
  from sliding smoothly. It also could be that the
  rollers are bent or have veered off their track.
  You need to lubricate the rollers regularly and
  replace the damaged ones.

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How To Repair A Garage Door Opener

• The opener makes a grinding noise but the door
  doesnt move
• When the opener makes some noise, as if the door
  is opening, but it does not, the main drive gear
  may be defective and need replacement.
• The garage door refuses to open in the winter
• The garage door might not open due to very low
  temperatures in the winter. This is because the
  rollers get stiff. You will need to adjust the
  sensitivity of the opener and lubricate the
  rollers.
• The garage door retreats back after touching the
  floor
• Where the door spring back immediately after
  touching the floor, the close-limit switch could
  be faulty. The close-limit adjustment screw needs
  to be adjusted.
• The remote is functioning, but the wall switch
  isnt
• Where the remote is functioning but the switch is
  not, it could be because the switch and the
  switch wires are defective. You need to check
  which of the two is defective and replace it.

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How To Do Overhead Garage Door Repairs

• Lock the door down tightly using locking pliers
  slightly above one of the rollers. This is to
  prevent the door from reversing back and hurting
  you as you wind the new springs. Also remember to
  unplug the door opener from the power outlet.
• Loosen and unwind the unbroken spring. Push the
  winding bar into the bottom hole of the winding
  shaft of the intact spring. Clamp the winding bar
  in place as you slacken the two setscrews.
  Fasten the other winding bar into the hole, and
  unwind the spring.
• Detach the springs from the middle bracket, by
  removing nuts and bolts and then sliding the
  springs into the end brackets
• By the help of locking pliers, clamp the torsion
  rod onto the bracket. Slacken off the setscrews
  on the left and right side of the cable drums and
  detach the cables.

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How To Do Overhead Garage Door Repairs

• Remove the old spring. Slide the torsion bar to
  the right, on the left side of the door to remove
  the cable from the drum. Then remove the spring
  from the tube.
• Fix the left spring. With the cone facing the
  center bracket, slip the new spring on the
  torsion tube. Reinstall the cable drum and insert
  the torsion bar to the left-side bearing bracket.
• Fix the new center bearing slip onto the torsion
  bar. Install the right spring and shove the
  bearing into the cone and restore the drum.
  Fasten the cones onto the center bracket.
• Change the rollers, bottom brackets and lift
  cables. Replace the new roller and bottom
  brackets, then wound the new cable.
• Thread the cables in the slot. Run the cables
  between the rollers and the doorjamb. Slip the
  lift cable stop onto the opening on the drum.

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How To Do Overhead Garage Door Repairs

• Tighten the drums. Clamp the locking pliers on
  the torsion tube. Ensure it is locked in one
  place as you tighten the drums. Revolve the drum
  to wind the cable into the winding ruts. Make
  sure the cable is tight enough before you tighten
  up the setscrews. To ensure the door opens
  evenly, equalize tension on both sides.
• Wind the springs. Put the winding bar hooked on
  the cone and wind the springs in an upward
  motion. Make sure you make exact number of turns
  as recommended in the manual. Rotate the spring a
  quarter turn at a time.
• When you are done wounding the spring, stretch
  the spring from the center using a winding bar,
  before you fasten the screws. Rotate the
  setscrews until they reach the torsion tube. Be
  careful not to over tighten the screws, as they
  can interfere with the torsion tube.
• Lubricate the spring using the recommended garage
  door lubricant.

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