Garage Door Heavy To Open Manually

If the door is heavier it is highly recommended to call a garage door company before additional damage will occur.

Garage door heavy to open manually. This becomes necessary when there is a power failure or for some reason you lose your remote. Very easy to open and close manually and will weigh around 5 15 lbs. All electronic or automatic garage doors have a bypass that will allow you to open it manually. Close your garage door.

When a torsion spring suffers a failure or breakage you may notice that your garage feels much weightier to lift or it simply won t open at all. Here s a way to test if your springs need service. That s a problem that can worsen gradually over time and is much less obvious than a broken spring. So my 2 car garage door takes at least 30 50lb to lift manually.

I had a company came and replaced the spring once years ago and the guy must not have wound it to the correct amount. Sometimes though a door that s hard to operate is the result of springs that no longer hold the proper tension.