Install An Overhead Garage Door

Installing an overhead garage door requires a few tools and a friend to help.

Install an overhead garage door.

Secure cable end to bracket. Screw on the top hinges and rollers. Measure the various areas where the door will be installed. An older double garage door can weigh anywhere from 250 to 450 lbs.

The remaining panels and tracks are held in place with hinges brackets and screws. Feed steel cable over the pulleys at the end of the track. Yet many of us enter and exit our homes through the garage door far more often than we do through the formal entry door. Door opening height and width headroom from top of opening to ceiling and back room length of garage.

There s a wood garage door for most price points from insulation filled wooden frames wrapped in plywood to frame and panel doors made from hemlock cedar or other. Average cost to install an overhead garage door is about 1320 2100 from economy to high grade. By choosing the type of wood doors as well as stain and design you can make any carriage house style overhead door classic door or modern wooden garage doors look incredible. First the lower door panel needs to be set up in the center of the doorway.

Set top door panel in place and secure it with hinge screws. Open the door then tighten locking pliers onto the track to hold the door open. For the headroom you should have about 10 to 12 of space depending on the spring system you re installing. New garage door installation overview.