One Side Of Garage Door Higher

A balanced garage door should be relatively quiet when traveling up or down the door tracks.

One side of garage door higher. Climb the ladder and go up to the cable drum on the side of. If you ve had your door for a while or are in and out of it a lot it can easily end up out of alignment. On this door the gap is on the left side but the door is lower on the right side so the first adjustment to make is on the right side. There are several things that can cause this.

This door was lower on the right side because the cable drum had slipped on the right. So the first step is to secure the drum on the right side. Some times you need to adjust the garage door. The door runs are housed in a garage door track one on each side of the garage door.

If it was opening too quickly move it to the next lower hole. When this happens you need to shift it back into position. One way to do it would be to get wall extensions for the entire the garage and then cut the roof of the garage off lifting it up to the height you want it. Retest the door balance as you did in step 1.

Or it could just be that the hardware has become loose over time. Because garage doors are usually sized to snugly fit the dimensions of the garage itself making the door larger usually means making the garage larger. Added strain on the opener can cause an unbalanced door to be noisy. It also depends a lot on the number of years the door has been up.

This can happen when the door has shifted to one side causing it to appear uneven. Maybe someone bumped into it recently. The correct amount of power isn t being transferred to all parts of the door causing one side to be higher than the other. Adjust the springs on both sides of the door the same way.