How To Install A Side Garage Door

Lay the next door panel on the workbench.

How to install a side garage door. The installation of your garage door. Attach hinges to the top of each panel image 2. Or having the door installed by a garaga authorized dealer. Installing the door yourself and consulting the garaga installation manual included in the box.

If you are unsure whether it is worth getting one i will talk you through my experience of recently having one installed. 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. If you re installing a two car garage door place a reinforcing bar on the top panel to prevent the door from bowing in the center. This old house general contractor tom silva shows how to assemble and hang a new garage door.

Insert rollers into the brackets attached to the door. You ll install the hinges the same way you did before only this time you ll leave the trackless side empty. Next set the doorframe in the opening and center it in the opening. The rubber gasket on the bottom section will fill the gaps created by an unlevel floor.

Use impact driver to mount hinges to the bottom panel of garage door. Attach weather stripping to the bottom edge of garage door. Remove one screw from each of the hinges in the doorframe. To hold the level in place tape it to the section.

Use the door shims if needed. 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. Remove the door from the pre hung frame by removing the hinge pins.

Replace them with 2 inch deck screws for strength. Be sure the bar is centered on the panel. Center and level the first section after you install the brackets. Install 2 hinges on the next door panel.

Align a hinge in 1 of the corners and in the center of the panel then screw them in place. See below for a shopping list and tools subscribe to this ol. There are two possibilities to choose from.