How to Balance Your Garage Door

Hi I'm Dan Musick and today we're going to show you how to check the balance of your garage door manufacturers recomend doing this periodically maybe once a year to check the balance of your garage door for safety first it's always good to unplug the opener to do that you come up here pull the cord from the opener next disengage the opener from the door you do that by pulling the rope towards the inside of the garage and that disengages it there are two positions on the opener if you pull it away from the door it disengages if you pull it towards the door it could reengage you pull it away from the door and then you lift the door the door feels kind of heavy open the door halfway and it doesn't stay up and when the door is all the way up it's still heavy and it won't stay open typically when a door won't stay open it needs at least half a turn of tension and your going to close the door and add about half (1/2) a turn three fourths (3/4s) of a turn I'm pretty familiar with these doors when it's as heavy as it is even when it's open I usually add three fourths (3/4s) of a turn so to do that I use winding bars that are marked for safety with tape we come over here set the ladder just at... towards the centre of the spring I want to stay out of the path of the cones a lot of injuries would happen over the years when people where in the path of the cone so stay away from that to adjust the spring you'll need winding bars most cones have a half inch cone in them these winding bars have half inch ends you never want to use a screw driver punches anything like that half inch hole half inch bar in order to keep the shaft from turning if you only have one spring on the door use a vice grip to hold the shaft the vice grip serves the purpose of an extra employee about six inches from the end you put the vice grip up here you adjust it so it fits snuggly the top of the vice grip is against the header gather we I his yeah turning yessir for Hicks I'm here for me Solway and 38 you're gonna crash monster I mister owned here we now yeah 3 corner turn great for an angry I okay I one come second or from the bottom called something I should have asked for your hand here's my sisters conditions and one-quarter the order Thursday anyway met spring or summer break a bar like a I said I not say Verde I or more time sir or borrowers or mark so %uh the bar oh yeah for from and share his Yahoo Inc com and to service I'm gonna show Springwood forward to it you do this is a if you just have to wait core diameter was only wheeler for away from me door for for I SAR or Yahoo I more continue bowling the tension here that on the K for also pressure I don't know compass sure you have your access services that so for to not our days %uh does market to you service my so you don't want to do that your back so far girl just a little bit continue forward display and Reza ski by way currently have a point where churches suckers a CA same here I yet another hacker yeah I'm a the for Paul Roos per se K here for you are here Marketwire costar remove the first or hold on to CR good %uh it's not small demanded nah but I'll yeah most I porno do and do and so it goes do form I I yeah says oh yeah stay cool I'll

Channel: DDM Garage Doors, Inc.

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Length: 7min 24sec (444 seconds)

Published: Thu Sep 08 2011