How To Install Garage Door Support Strut

Doors with openers also require two extra pieces of hardware that you ll see in photo 4.

How to install garage door support strut. Many doors come standard with a strut across the top panel of the garage door. This video demonstration uses our kit designed for easier shipping. For doors with torsion springs located over the door spend the 50 or so to have a garage door professional release the tension. If the sections are not rigid the garage door will bind as it opens and closes.

A garage door strut can help support door panels that have been bent or damaged. They make the sections of the garage door stiff enough to prevent bending or breaking. You can purchase struts and strut kits on our garage door struts page. Garage door struts stiffen door sections to prevent them from bending or breaking.

For a smooth operation of the garage door opener installing a garage door strut is helpful. Garage door strut is a metal beam that is installed on the sections of a garage door to provide support and stability to the door. For more information you can view our how to assemble garage door strut kits video. Most residential doors use 2 struts but residential and industrial doors over 16 feet wide often use three inch struts.

A garage door strut is a metal piece designed to provide horizontal strength and rigidity to a garage door panel. Installation instructions to read pdf files you need the adobe acrobat reader 6 0 or higher. Additional support for your garage door repairs is in on our do it yourself garage door instruction library. They also allow the door to open and close smoothly.

This strut when across the top section helps to support the door during opening and closing using a electric garage door opener.