Uneven Garage Door Closing

While many problems that keep the door from opening are caused by broken springs a lot of other parts could be keeping your door from functioning properly.

Uneven garage door closing.

One of the more difficult problems for do it yourselfers to diagnose is a worn cable pulley on an extension spring door. This can happen for a number reasons including broken and rusted springs from the heavy and regular rain in portland worn down cables from use and even broken or missaligned rollers. If you live in the portland area and your garage door becomes misaligned it is important to know what to do and who to call. This page should help you troubleshoot your garage door problems.

If when closing your door its bottom edge contacts the floor and then reverses direction and raises again you will need to adjust your close force. Push the door back to adjust the door and get the center aligned again. At some point in time every homeowner in the portland area with a garage and garage door will experience a crooked and unbalanced garage door. From inside your garage close your garage door.

Adjust the springs on both sides of the door the same way. By pushing the door back into position you should have made the vertical track straighten. We have products in stock to close a gap up to about 2 inches on either side of the door and still. It is possible that the vertical track down the side has gone out of alignment and shifted due to a slightly loose lag screw.

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. Check the space under the bottom door edge to be sure it is tight against the floor surface. Garage door openers have an adjustment screw that controls the closing force the pressure with which a door is allowed to descend before the motor switches off. If there is a little gap at the bottom of your garage door on one side or your garage door has been jerking back and forth it s probably because there s uneven tension from the springs.

My garage has an uneven floor. Check that it is straight. Retest the door balance as you did in step 1. Two possible problems can lead to a garage door reversing before it even touches the floor.

If it was opening too quickly move it to the next lower hole. Other times the misaligned door requires a more challenging repair like shimming the hinges. My garage has an uneven floor. If the door was closing too quickly move the spring to the next higher hole on the bracket.