Garage Door Installation Ep.87

[Music] with the concrete floor in here with the drywall strips all the way around three sides it's time for the garage door to go in and i'm so thankful i don't have to do it i tried it once i'll never do it again and so at the end of the day today this house is going to be lockable the garage door is going to be in place with the finish coat and color on it and it's going to operate as smooth as silk i can't wait so even though our house is still on temporary power construction power these guys can install this door including the opener they can tune the opener and see exactly how it works and then we will be able to plug the opener in if we want or disconnect the opener and open the door manually either way is an option i've used overhead door jeff wickstrom has been around this town for longer than i've been and i've known him since i was a pup and when this is done it's going to be just one more feather in his cap and a relief for me to have a smoothly operating door in place so we can lock this place up where do you want your glass very top yeah [Music] an overhead door is a really neat invention it's just one of the really neat inventions that everybody takes for granted all the time but this one has been around for a long time since 1921 actually immediately after the invention of the automobile and thus the beginning of need for garages the inventor of the overhead door was a guy named cg johnson and he must have been a pretty sharp fellow because five years later he invented the electric garage door opener and he's the same guy who founded the parent company of the business that these two guys work for [Music] now overhead door here in roseburg has been here since 1959 it's been owned by my friend jeff wickstrom since 1976 and it's pretty neat to be connected with somebody who's connected with the original and as their marketing will say and best garage door on the market [Music] [Applause] [Music] so [Music] the best way to think about a garage door installation is as an assembly or a system all of the parts are here but they need to be assembled in the correct order the whole thing is put up one piece at a time and fastened and screwed and bolted together as it goes now i really don't have any special expertise or experience with garage doors in fact full disclosure i've never installed one even though i fixed a couple so i'm not going to say much about something i just don't know really anything about but it's amazing what you can learn by watching someone else work now i'm sure if you bought a garage door and you'd like to read a nice set of instructions on how this is done and the small steps and moves that these installers already know and are checking and thinking of as they move through the sequence you could get it done eventually but for me there are no instructions anywhere near as helpful as watching someone who knows exactly what they're doing if you're curious about what we paid for this garage door system i would invite you to visit our website on the website you'll find out how you can become a supporter and once you've become a supporter you will be able to find these costs and all the others right there an overhead door has almost nothing in common with any of the other doors in your house first because of the sheer number of moving parts and second because of the weight of this steel door which will be suspended in the air that's a lot of kinetic energy if this thing fell out of its tracks for any reason and landed on your car well that would be one thing but man if it landed on your bride or a child well that would be something completely different and closely related to the weight of the door up in the air and just as serious an overhead door has these springs they're a torsion kind of a spring and they are put under great tension while the door is closed with these winding bars what this means is that once the springs are set they are helping to lift the door up and onto its tracks all the time it's a simple machine and it's really magic tightening these springs is really the most dangerous part of the job and it is no joke if these tension bars were to get away from our installer here while he was putting the tension onto the spring they could do a lot of damage so if you're gonna try this watch some videos or get some training from someone who really knows what they're doing before you try it i'd be scared for my life if i was tightening one of those springs actually not bad you just make sure you're back here or not yeah not in front of it she's hot [Music] so oh [Music] now in order to keep the garage door nice and flat once it is suspended in the air the panels get these struts bolted right to the door from end to end the size and exact location of these struts is engineered by the manufacturer and varies from door to door a larger heavier door will need more struts to stiffen the panels the factory that assembles your door will send you or should send you everything you need for your particular door system including the correct struts the correct springs all of the hardware everything you need for your door system to work properly [Music] as you have noticed by now i'm sure the most important tool on this job for these fellows is the impact driver that rotary hammering action gives the operator a lot of control and saves an enormous amount of time so be sure if you're going to start a project like this to track down or order the right bits so you can use your impact driver to its fullest [Music] now just in case you haven't found it yet we have a podcast and i'm sure that we'll do an episode or two about garage doors probably one with an expert like jeff wickstrom so tune in to that if you'd like more details about this trade the podcast can be found on itunes and all the regular locations and podcast outlets and it can also be found on youtube on our second channel ec2 with the garage door installed our house is now finally secure we can lock the doors we can lock the windows and we are one big step closer to having this house finished and ready for a family to move in thank you for watching essential craftsman and keep up the good work [Music] how do i know that's pointing the right way because that little seam thing is lined up with my lines we've gone over this

Channel: Essential Craftsman

Views: 177,290

Rating: 4.9409447 out of 5

Keywords: anvil, forge, blacksmith, forging, craftsman, mentor, trades, tradesman, career, smith, carpetner, builder, wisdom, workbench, fabricate, tools, tool, tips, trick, hacks, protip, garage door installation, Overhead Door, Overhead Door Inc, door hardware, garage door safety, angle grinder, impact driver

Id: H57kKA89LUM

Length: 11min 37sec (697 seconds)

Published: Sat Sep 19 2020