Garage Door Not Level With Floor

Garage door sensors may not be aligned correctly 3.

Garage door not level with floor. Garage door opener malfunction or door has shifted. This customer insisted that our technician did a poor job and that he installed their new garage door improperly. Can it damage my garage door. Garage door seal may be damaged 4.

An un even floor in your garage it is very common. The floor in my garage is not leveled. That s because if your garage door is uneven it means there can be gaps between it and the floor of your garage. The customer stated that there was a gap at the bottom of their garage door.

Garage floor may have cracked or shifted 2. Garage door bottom seal for uneven floor. Yet no matter how big it is it can still be as good as gone if it s not properly levelled. Now your garage door doesn t seat well to the floor and mother nature finds her way into your garage from time to time.

And the problem is is that the floor of our garage is not level. Check that it is straight. An out of balance garage door can close too quickly creating a potential hazard for kids and pets and placing unnecessary strain on the door s parts. By pushing the door back into position you should have made the vertical track straighten.

Second and far more critical is when the garage floor has begun to tilt backward toward the house. Your garage door is probably the largest door on your entire home. My wife and i built a house about 10 years ago and we have a 2 car attached garage. When your new garage door was installed the installers took great care to make sure the door was flush with your floor and seated properly to keep out the rain snow and wind.

However an out of kilter garage floor may require leveling when two critical scenarios happen. And so when water drops off the car from rain or more particularly ice and snow it drops off onto the garage floor and starts to go in different low spots on the floor. Just the other day i was speaking to an upset customer. In most cases its due to foundation movement tree root seasonal wether patterns and can be a little as a 1 8 inch difference on either side of the bottom garage door.

Check that the vertical track is straight. First the floor may be so out of level that the garage floor does not meet the bottom edge of the door. Thus even when your garage door is closed it s actually not. First you need to see what has caused this to happen.