Why Do I Need To Balance My Garage Door?

"Balancing your door is just making sure that one giant counterbalance system, the springs above your door that are attached to the cables on the side for making sure your door is level and opening straight and correctly and making sure that your springs set the proper amount of tension to lift the weight of that door." 

- Alex Dalton, Garage Door Expert

 

Jim Klauck, Check A  Pro Joe, has asked garage door expert, Alex Dalton to join him on the show today.  Today's question - "Why Do I Need To Balance My Garage Door?"

Check out this episode to learn more...

 

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Episode Transcript

(00:00):
I get a lot of questions here at Checkup Pro Radio about Home Improvement.
Here's one that's crossed my desk recently.
Why do I need to balance my garage door?
And now you're probably wondering what does balancing my garage door mean we're gonna find out soon because I've asked Alex Dalton to join me here on the program from Eco Garage Door service.
He is an expert in garage doors.

(00:22):
Alex,
how are you?
I'm doing really good here today,
Joe.
How are you doing?
Fantastic,
my friend.
Ok.
So here's the question of the day.
You're the guy to answer this.
Why do I need to balance my garage door first off?
What does it mean to balance and then why do we need to balance it?
Yeah,
I mean,
balancing your door is just making sure that one giant counterbalance system,

(00:44):
um,
the springs above your door that are attached to the cables on the side for making sure your door is uh level and opening straight and correctly and making sure that your springs set the proper amount of tension on there to lift the weight of that door.
A well balanced store.
You should be able to open up halfway and it should just sit there and not come crashing down or not lift itself up.

(01:06):
Uh,
it's important,
uh,
because the job of an opener is to open 5 to £10.
Um,
which is what the balance do should weigh.
Uh,
and if you are,
if the opener is overworking that or,
or lifting more weight than it should,
it can actually damage the opener itself.
Um,
it could damage properties such as vehicles,

(01:28):
cars,
if that door does come crashing down,
if it's not balanced correctly,
if it's not a level balanced store,
um,
it could open crooked and allowing a roller to come out.
There's a lot of,
a lot of things that could happen with an unbalanced store and it's definitely an important thing to take care of.
Yeah,
I know something about garage doors and what I don't know,

(01:48):
which is most of it.
I,
I ask people like Alex to help me out with,
but you know,
your garage door is balanced.
If you release it from the garage door opener and you can lift it up or put it down with just one finger,
you shouldn't have to struggle with it.
Like Alex said,

(02:08):
it's just a few pounds that,
that opener wants to move.
If your garage door spring breaks,
you will find out it's not balanced and you will also find out your garage door opener will not open it.
As a matter of fact,
you and your neighbor may not be able to open it by hand.
So it,
it's important it's balanced because everything's gonna last a whole lot longer.
Alex.
Thank you.

(02:29):
Thank you.
All of Alex's information is located here in the description of this podcast.
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