Straighten Wooden Garage Door

Repair or replace the screws.

Straighten wooden garage door.

Six 1 x 4 s 12 feet long and a box of phillips head screws or 8d eight penny nails to serve as fasteners. Using a ladder visually inspect both of the garage door tracks. The one piece garage door. Make sure the lips of the tracks are not flattened or damaged.

Begin cutting out the quarter round on the inside of the garage door by scoring it repeatedly with a utility knife or preferably with an oscillating tool until all four pieces of trim are removed if applicable to your garage door. Straightening a leaning garage. Modern look with glass and aluminum finish. You ll also need a short list of materials.

Hold the door hold the door as the hinges unscrew to keep it from falling down. Some steel or wood stakes an electric drill a circular saw a hammer and a carpenter s level. If they re loose tighten the bolts or screws at the brackets. Look at the mounting brackets that hold the tracks to the walls.

The rods are placed diagonally from top to bottom corners and can be tightened at a turnbuckle to straighten out the door do a little at time to allow the door to adjust to the change. Check the metal tracks inside the garage. Working inside the garage with the garage door closed examine the tracks for dents crimps or flat spots. Custom requests to build such garage doors should be scheduled for a in site consultation.

Then lay the door down flat and be sure that each screw in the door frame is tight. One piece garage doors are available at a customers request.