Straighten Garage Door Strut

Stiles are the metal braces that run from the top to the bottom of a door section.

Straighten garage door strut.

Doors over 10 feet wide usually have at least one strut across the top panel. Measure the width of your door with a tape measure. Purchase four strut clips if you have a wood door or two strut clips per stile for steel doors. If you notice that your top garage door panel bends in the middle when.

Hammer out the bend. Purchase a strut that is 1 inch shorter than the door width. You ll need a 2x4 of wood and a rubber mallet. Struts provide additional support for the garage door panel s and help prevent bending of the panel s.

Struts frequently bend when an opener lifts a 16 foot steel door that has a broken spring. These struts can be straightened by locking the door removing the strut and straightening it. Five star doors adds an additional strut to all our garage door installs. You will then need to straighten the top section and reinstall the strut.

This will often leave a one to three inch gap in the center of the top section. Struts can be installed on any of the panels. When we add one or more struts to your door we factor in the additional weight. A 16 wood door should have 3 or more struts but insulated steel doors should have at least two.

If it s a simple dent then this shouldn t be too hard to do. In this video i will show you how to prevent and diy fix a buckling garage door panel. Most residential doors have a strut pre installed at the top of the top panel on the garage door.