3 DIY Garage Door Upgrades | Adding insulation, Replacing Opener and Weather Strip (in one day)

today video is sponsored by the Home Depot today we're taking on three do-it-yourself garage door projects that you can do in just one day so let's rewind to how we got here in the first place the spring on my garage door broke and if you've ever been around one of those and you happen to hear that sound you'll probably be awakened for the rest of the day replacing a spring with tension on it didn't quite excite me so I bit the bullet and contact a local garage door company so I know that if one thing broke more things will follow so this is a little bit of me being proactive and trying to take care of some of the things that I don't want to be a problem when I'm not ready for it so to add to the setup I have going around my house I decided to go with a smart garage door opener the garage door motor that I'm taking out operates with a chain and it's not the new one that I'm putting in is bad really what's really quiet and I'm okay with that [Music] and everything we should need should be in this box let's take a look the kit comes with everything you'll need for this swap out one big difference is the current system uses a t-bar for the travel the new system will use multiple tubes connected to each other this could come with everything the two garage door buttons Hardware pieces new sensors the belt to keep everything quiet and when there is no electricity no problem got a battery backup snap together rails and of course the motor itself well let's get started to take out the old system I'll begin by removing the power and disconnecting all the wires going to the sensors now this is not my field of expertise so it looks like I need to remove the chain first then detach everything from the t-bar and then I can put a t-bar down after disconnecting the farside I then disconnect the t-bar from the motor then I remove the motor from the mounting brackets I was hoping that I can reuse some of the existing parts but this wasn't one that I could reuse so I had to remove the old bracket install the new one and this way the route can be installed and if you look close enough this one is much slimmer than the older one one thing you cannot see is the lumber behind this drywall the bracket will be mounted to it with the two included lag bolts leading with the front section snap all the tubes together to complete the rail in a second to the last section I dropped the screwdriver in place per the direction to stop the trolley from sliding all the way forward after attaching the last section insert the new China that attached to the motor next I loosen up the bolts on the motor of this work and attached a new channel and finally I install the protection bolt if anything goes wrong this will prevent the garage door from slamming into the motor and destroying it if you recall the older motor and a chain played a key role in to having a very loud garage operation and this new setup one of the key features to keeping this silent is by using a rubber belt the older motor was rated at 1/2 horsepower while the new one is rated at one and a quarter after installing and tightening the pulley I then raised the rail tab which had blocked the trolley from going all the way forward and running into the pulley are connected one end of the belt to the trolley I took the other end and wrapped it around the motor and then brought that closer to the opposite end of the trolley I then connected the threaded shaft to the charlie and the other end to the belt with that in place I can then put tension on the bill this goes into greater detail in the menu but ideally you want to loosen up this ring nut and then allow the spring to open up all the way and after putting on a sprocket cap it was almost time to mount this the rail is mounted to the wall bracket above the door and the securities you need to locate the kleva spin and to ring fastener I was about to mount the motor and then I realize that the rail was a little bit shorter than the existing one so I then modified the setup and face to bracket the opposite direction so that it could accommodate for the new motor you as I was working I was cleaning so I'm not sure if I throw away the boats footed or arm or they just didn't come in a package I searched everywhere and I was unable to find a few boats and nuts I needed the next best thing was to grab a few nuts and bolts off the existing rail when it comes to the arm there are a number of configuration that you can set this up for to fit your garage door and needs luckily I didn't have to replace this bracket it was the same exact size as the one already on the garage door in order to get the garage door to open up to its widest point I had to adjust the arm later on by bringing the arm even closer to the door now that I have this all sorted out I spliced the two sensor wire together in parallel with enough wire to make it over to the garage door motor I call up the wires and put them back in a junction box then routed the wires over to the motor and then strip the wires and then put them into the terminal since the kit came with new sensors are ripped out the old ones and then I install these it's a simple to wire circuit and they are polarity sensitive which means you need to keep track of how the wire was spliced at the sensor this way you can connect it correctly at the motor I splice the wires with small wire nuts and then use tape to wrap up the connection there is no reason to solder these so tuck the connection back into the wall and you should be good to go usually this is a low traffic area in every garage you can also finish this off by stapling the wires to keep it neat just remember the two sensors need to be mounted at the same height and for safety reasons you want to keep these pretty low to the ground to finalize all the wiring I connected the door control and then mounted it to the wall after completing this I powered up the system and installed a battery backup so this is a really great feature to the system something I didn't have before is having a battery backup in the occasion you lose power you can still open your garage door at this point the installation is complete and I just need to double check the sensors to ensure that they align with each other there's also a few things that needs to happen I need to check the up-and-down limits of the garage door and I'll follow the instruction in the manual to do so it's a huge upgrade over what I had before and all the features I wish I had before it's all in here and then some the system has Wi-Fi built in this means that I can control the garage door any where I am I can also see the status of the garage door and I get notified when someone open or close the door and also a great addition to this is having a built-in battery backup this also has a built-in LCD screen in it so not only can you tell what time it is but you can also see the temperature in the room and probably the most handiest feature on here is the motion activated LEDs the next thing on the list is to replace the weather strip on the bottom of the garage door although this may have a little bit of life left in it there was a couple reasons why I wanted to replace this in some areas it didn't close tight enough because the rubber seal was too flat the other reason is the way it attached to the garage door insect was able to get in between this and the garage door and as you can guess some of those would get squished the new replacement I'll be putting in today should prevent all of that this replacement kit comes in a tube and it's enough material on here for a single car garage maybe two of those and one two-car garage and even though I cut this with a razor you want to be careful so you don't cut the rubber seal the first thing you'll want to do is inspect to exist in weatherstrip and identify the areas that you need to pull the screws this screw will not be a part of the new setup so I can go ahead and put that back right now the existent track on the garage was one continuous piece but the replacement track comes in multiple sections these are easily mounted with self-tapping screws now because they come in small sections you'll simply just butt them up against each other to continue the track I just have a standard two-car garage door so all I need to do here is cut off the extra and I'll have my complete track to give you a closer look of what I'm going to do I'll just feed the rubber strip into the track and slide that down the entire distance I find this easiest to feed this from one end of the garage door to the opposite in and you can get a good amount going on your own but at some point you might need a second set of hands to complete this installation I pull some extra of the rubber strip to the far end then I cut it all flush to this end of the door and pull some back another update I want to do to the garage door is add insulation I'll be using high-impact polystyrene laminate I work in here a lot so my goal is to keep the temperature in here as cool as possible while blocking some of the outdoor noise the installation of this is pretty straightforward all you have to do is just cut the panel to size and then fit them in place the garage door already had some sort of insulation in it but there were very thin and I did see opportunity to add additional insulation so I think this can only be of benefit all you need is a measuring tape a straightedge and a razor you just need to take a few measurements cut the panel's the size and fit them depending on where you're located you may have never seen these crossbars with these and one additional bar that sits in the center that goes into the ground and also locks into the bracket above the garage door together these allow the doors to whisk then a certain wind speed which make the garage door hurricane rated and the reason I'm having such a hard time to get these in a door is there is an existing one in a door which is very thin and together these allow for tight fit it's been about six months since I've installed a mini split and I'll give you guys an update on that in the future video my house faces east so the Sun hit my garage door first thing in the morning since adding these additional panels it has made a huge difference to the point that I don't turn the AC on all the time you at a later date I removed the existing keypad for the garage door and install the new one even if you're not doing any updates to your garage door one thing you should always do at least every six months to a year is to loop it up alright guys so there you have it in a day's work you can do all three of these things and I mean a very long day but it's all possible something as important as the garage door that you use on a day-to-day basis whether you're opening or you're closing it it's really important that it's working when you need it the most so if you ever need to update any features on your garage doors I hope this video capture some of those to help you out in the future if you'd like to check out more information on this video be sure to check out the links down in the video description and a really important feature I forgot to mention was the safety feature if you need to close the garage from a remote location it would set off a signal to warn anyone in the area that the garage door is about to close and also if there's anything blocking the sensors at the bottom of the door the door will not close alright guys so that is it for this one I will catch you in the next project video so if you're new here be sure to LIKE comment and subscribe you

Channel: DIY Creators

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Keywords: garage door, garage door repair, liftmaster garage door opener, universal garage door, new garage door, garage door opener, garage door hardware, garage door insulation, best insulated garage door, garage door weather strip, weather stripping door, garage door bottom weather seal, DIY garage, garage door motor replacement, do it yourself, chamberlain garage opener

Id: W2dXy-jRCY0

Length: 14min 57sec (897 seconds)

Published: Sun May 26 2019

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[u/sgtblast]

Good info!