Install An Overhead Garage Door

Screw on the top hinges and rollers.

Install an overhead garage door.

For the headroom you should have about 10 to 12 of space depending on the spring system you re installing. Find here detailed information about overhead garage door installation costs. Feed steel cable over the pulleys at the end of the track. This weight coupled with deteriorating hardware makes older garage doors a frequent scene of home accidents.

Installing an overhead garage door requires a few tools and a friend to help. Door opening height and width headroom from top of opening to ceiling and back room length of garage. New garage door installation overview. An older double garage door can weigh anywhere from 250 to 450 lbs.

Set top door panel in place and secure it with hinge screws. Open the door then tighten locking pliers onto the track to hold the door open. Yet many of us enter and exit our homes through the garage door far more often than we do through the formal entry door. Hook the garage door spring onto door track bracket.

Measure the various areas where the door will be installed. The remaining panels and tracks are held in place with hinges brackets and screws. Average cost to install an overhead garage door is about 1320 2100 from economy to high grade. By choosing the type of wood doors as well as stain and design you can make any carriage house style overhead door classic door or modern wooden garage doors look incredible.