How To Install A Side Garage Door

Installing the door yourself and consulting the garaga installation manual included in the box.

How to install a side garage door.

Or having the door installed by a garaga authorized dealer. If you are unsure whether it is worth getting one i will talk you through my experience of recently having one installed. Insert rollers into the brackets attached to the door. Next set the doorframe in the opening and center it in the opening.

After moving house the other year one of the first things i agreed with my wife we would do is install a garage side door. Center and level the first section after you install the brackets. Use impact driver to mount hinges to the bottom panel of garage door. Screw cable brackets to the door to secure the weather stripping.

Attach hinges to the top of each panel image 2. To hold the level in place tape it to the section. Attach weather stripping to the bottom edge of garage door. Remove the door from the pre hung frame by removing the hinge pins.

Be sure the bar is centered on the panel. Remove one screw from each of the hinges in the doorframe. Use the door shims if needed. Drill pilot holes image 1 and secure the bar with screws.

There are two possibilities to choose from. The installation of your garage door. Stand the bottom door panel on the floor in the garage doorway. The door must be level even if the floor isn t so use shims under the section to level it.

You ll install the hinges the same way you did before only this time you ll leave the trackless side empty. Lay the next door panel on the workbench. See below for a shopping list and tools subscribe to this ol. Garage side doors are really useful to have.

This old house general contractor tom silva shows how to assemble and hang a new garage door. The rubber gasket on the bottom section will fill the gaps created by an unlevel floor. Align a hinge in 1 of the corners and in the center of the panel then screw them in place.