How To Install A Garage Door Hinge

With a friend pick up the new door panel.

How to install a garage door hinge.

Stand the bottom door panel on the floor in the garage doorway. Fastening the other panels and track 1. While this may seem elementary it s not as simple as pointing and saying that one when you look at a garage door from the inside there are hinges up the left side of the door up the right side and in the middle section and they all have names and numbers. Add brackets and rollers before setting them in place and stack one section on top of another toenailing as you go up.

Open and close the door to make sure the hinges work and the door is even. Find new rollers and hinges here. Press on the bars of the hinge to snap them into place on the mounting plates. Insert rollers into the brackets attached to the door.

Hold the door so it s in the open position and slide the hinges into the mounting plates. Lay the next door panel on the workbench. Hook the hinges onto the mounting plates and snap them into place. Install 2 hinges on the next door panel.

Follow the steps below for proper green hinge system overhead door hinge installation procedure step 1. Fasten the two to four brackets through the predrilled holes on the inside of the door near the hinges on each side. Attach weather stripping to the bottom edge of garage door. Screw cable brackets to the door to secure the weather stripping.

Use impact driver to mount hinges to the bottom panel of garage door. To hold the level in place tape it to the section. Place the second panel on top of the first one. Identify which garage door hinge needs to be replaced.

To hold the section in place lightly toenail a 16d nail into the frame and bend it over the section. Install the included brackets with hex screws on each side of the unit s frame.