Garage Door Heavy To Open Manually

When a torsion spring suffers a failure or breakage you may notice that your garage feels much weightier to lift or it simply won t open at all.

Garage door heavy to open manually.

I had a company came and replaced the spring once years ago and the guy must not have wound it to the correct amount. I was thinking about taking a couple steel rods and adjust the torsion spring myself. That s a problem that can worsen gradually over time and is much less obvious than a broken spring. Garage torsion springs are vital aspects of the garage opening system as no other part of the mechanism is strong enough to lift the heavy door.

So my 2 car garage door takes at least 30 50lb to lift manually. Close your garage door. If the door is heavier it is highly recommended to call a garage door company before additional damage will occur. All electronic or automatic garage doors have a bypass that will allow you to open it manually.

Failing or broken spring s is the most common cause of a door being almost impossible to open manually but other factures can cause this as well. Sometimes though a door that s hard to operate is the result of springs that no longer hold the proper tension.