Garage Door Too Heavy To Lift Manually

Bending over and attempting to put your weight into the door may result in lower back injuries.

Garage door too heavy to lift manually.

A properly balanced garage door weighs about 10 to 15 pounds which can easily be lifted with one hand. When the garage door spring is working properly a 200 pound door would feel weightless but when one or both springs break you will feel the weight when you work the door manually. For safety reasons don t try to solve the problem yourself. If your garage door spring is failing or broken it will not provide enough force to lift the garage door.

Consider updating the drums that guide the lifting cables. If the spring is not the proper size the door will not be balanced. We recommend having a maintenance done to your garage door every 12 to 18 months. The result will be that the door will be too heavy to lift by yourself or the opener because a standard garage door opener is only designed to move the door with 10 pounds of pressure.

Position a stepladder at the area of the automatic opener. If the spring is to small the door will be difficult to open if the spring is to large the door will be difficult. Close the garage door. Open the door fully by hand.

Lift up the door halfway from the inside using one of the cross members. Is your garage door hard to lift by hand. So my 2 car garage door takes at least 30 50lb to lift manually. An unbalanced door can make the door difficult to raise manually and can cause damage to other components in the garage door system.

Many doors we encounter do not have the proper size spring s installed. Instead you want to lift with your lower body as if you are picking up a heavy box. Pull the emergency cord on your door opener and gently lift your garage door. If the door remains at the halfway position.

Raynor s new trubalance drums can provide 87 better balance throughout the full open close motion. I was thinking about taking a couple steel rods and adjust the torsion spring myself. I had a company came and replaced the spring once years ago and the guy must not have wound it to the correct amount. There could be several issues preventing your door from lifting easily.