How To Install A Side Hinged Garage Door

Insert the lockset tailpieces through the latch bolt and screw the handles together by tightening the retaining screws.

How to install a side hinged garage door.

Placing the first panel and track 1. At one side of the doorway slip the vertical track onto the rollers of the first door section. Fasten the wall. Find a 1 2 inch or whatever you decided for the bottom gap piece of scrap and place it under the door near the post.

3 install the rollers and any necessary brackets on the garage door section and any wall or jamb mounted brackets according to the manufacturer s directions. Lay weather stripping over the bottom door panel. How to install side hinged garage doors 1. Ask your assistant to hold one of the garage door hinges in place at one side of the door and align the machined holes on the large mounting plate with the drilled pilot holes at the trimmer.

Measure the garage door opening before purchasing panels. Complete the installation. Position the door in the opening in the front of the garage so that the brackets are positioned inside the garage. Release the tension on side mounted extension springs by lifting the door and locking it in place on each side with a pair of locking pliers.

Use a tape measure to carefully record the length and width. Install a new door lock and door knob by inserting the latch through the hole for the new parts. Fasten the two to four brackets. With the door in the 90 degrees open position start sliding scrap under the outside bottom of the door until your hinges are aligned.

At a home improvement store purchase some rubber weather stripping.