Garage Door Opener Installed Off Center

This is for sectional metal door 16 feet wide.

Garage door opener installed off center. If your door has extension springs the opener must be installed in the center of the door. Garage door openers come in several varieties. Styles are engineered into the garage door. I enjoyed your step by step installation video and believe it to be applicable to other makes and models read and follow the instructions provided by the manufacturer.

Original opener installed 4 feet off center on the vertical reinforcement piece. Mounting a garage door opener off center 630 271 9343 you. It was good to see the off center mounting of your garage door opener as that may be information someone else can use. I have seen lots of 16 wide and wider doors with the operator to one side or the other.

Garage door opener installation is available starting at 127 including removal and haul away of old openers and other materials. The opener can be installed within 4 feet to the left or right of the door center if there is a torsion spring or center bearing plate in the way of the header bracket or door bracket area. Follow the included instructions to hook up the opener and fasten it to the spring system with a pulley and cable. My garage door opener came with the following instructions.

An opener will work ok off center of the door but really needs to be perpendicular to the door. The only consideration is the door is balanced properly on spring tension. Contact garage door center inc today at 208 773 2941 for all your garage sales installation and repairs needs in the inland empire area. This is a very common problem with garage doors and garage door openers anytime you have a garage door opener installed at your home.

Most of the time when this problem occur is when someone tries to open a garage door when it is locked and the opener hauls the century style right out of the door panel or most of the time or just seriously bend it. At door center a ceiling joist comes within about one inch of the torsion spring so i do not have enough space above the spring system to mount the header bracket. We re a garage door supplier and contractor in the center line warren royal oak mi area you can trust to get the job done right every time. To install the opener you ll need to hang another angle iron from the center joist on your garage s ceiling.