How To Weigh A Heavy Garage Door

Slowly lower the garage door back down until the garage door is sitting on the scale.

How to weigh a heavy garage door.

The first step to weighing your garage door in weighing your garage door is unwinding the garage door springs to remove the tension from the torsion cables. Struts add on average 1 lb per linear foot to the door weight so a strut for a double door 16ft wide will add about 16lbs to the total door weight. Often the outer carriage will. How to weigh a garage door that has torsion springs 1.

If the garage door has a spring that is not broken push up slightly with the winding bar until the cables loosen and the entire garage door weight is on the scale. Remove the opener arm. Disengaging the trolley from the drawbar carriage is not enough. Place a scale under the door.

If you plan on reinforcing your garage door with extra steel braces you need to plan for weight being added to the door. Make sure your cables are a bit loose when unwinding the spring. If your door has two springs and both.