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Choosing pros for various garage door repair projects can be pricey and leave ones garage out of service for days while you wait for the pros to come out and fix it. Usually you can buy the new parts you need replaced from the store for rather cheap and fix the problem on your own, that's why many people have taken the idea upon themselves to carry out their own garage door repair and replacement. There are many different diy garage door repair manuals around using the web and it only remains to pick up in popularity for homeowners. If you are considering doing your own garage door repair I suggest searching for the various manuals so that you can own an straightforward and clean familiarity with the right way to do it right. At this moment let's look at the two very common diy ventures.


Garage Door Repair Projects

Torsion Spring Replacement


Swapping torsion springs is one of the common garage door repair diy projects. These are the springs that are just above your garage door when it's down and they are wound up incredibly tightly so that they can reduce the weight of the door letting the garage door opener to effortlessly pull it up or let it down. These springs can crack on occasion or merely need replacement which is what I'll go over. While conducting a torsion spring replacement it's very crucial that you practice safe practices, you'll want another person there to work with you just in case you come across a problem. The first thing you'll want to do is secure your garage door so that it will stay closed when you work on the springs, the next thing to do is look in the box that your new torsion springs came in, it will have 2 metal bars. Bring these bars along with a screwdriver and head over to one of the springs and look over the far side, it will have a head piece with screws and slots for the metal bars. Put one of the metal bars into the hole, retain a good proper grip with it and begin unscrewing the screws. The screws are holding the head in place, when they are undone it will be able to spin up and down which can fasten and relax the tension in the spring. Once the screws are extracted you should move the metal bar downwards, as it lowers a new hole will appear towards the top for the next bar to fit straight into, continue to keep this motion going gradually the spring will be unwound allowing you to correctly drag it off and exchange it with the new one, simply repeat the process but tightening them instead to secure the new one. It is quite crucial that you move slow and also thorough for this because the spring unwinding alone rapidly could result in harm.

Swapping Rollers

Basic Garage Door Maintenance

Anytime you are doing some sort of garage door repair project make sure you are performing each action in the safest doable way and always have an assistant to assist you. If you feel like a job could possibly be too much to take on or is challenging to you then don't hesitate to get a hold of a specialist and have him help you. Injury to yourself or damage to your garage door can be a costly slip-up. A lot of step by step manuals and videos are around so that you may be entirely prepared on any plan you get started on. Checking sites such as Youtube for video clips and various diy blogs can be a huge help so be sure to benefit from all these different resources before attempting a job given that the information above is mostly a quick and general overview of the plans.