Garage Door Repair
Welcome to garage door repair help, your ultimate resource to learn about garage door repair, do it yourself repair, and garage door repair services. With our economy in a recession many people don’t have the money to shell out for a garage door repair service and are too scared to tackle the daunting task themselves. We are dedicated to helping you with this process and make the door repairing simplistic and easy.
The diagram above is a great trouble shoot map for anyone interested in repairing their garage door themselves. The first step we recommend for you to do is print out this diagram. Look at your garage door and circle on the diagram what the problems are. This will help you to pinpoint certain areas of the entire garage door opening mechanism and be able to know if you have a bad motor, door tracks, door panels, or winding tube.
Once you have cirlced some trouble areas on your diagram you can start pricing out parts. We recommend looking at places like Home Depot and Lowes for specific parts, and many people get excellent deals off of Ebay and Amazon. If you can’t find the specific parts you need at these locations you may need to call a garage repair service and see how much they would wholesale you the parts for. Once you have prices on the parts you need you can begin to price out the garage door repair total.
Once you have the total repair price the most important step is to take that total and compare it to what garage door repair services offer. What we mean by this is that if your total repairs total $500 dollars to do it yourself and a local repair company will do garage door repair for $450 and cover all those parts, why not just let someone else handle it? Often times you can get a better deal using a service company if you need to replace the motor and the garage door coils. If you need to just repair rollers and bracketing it is almost always cheaper to do it yourself.
When doing the actual repairs you will only need instructions on installing a new motor and the door winding coils as they are more complex. Everything else is really just replacement, and very easy to understand as it usually involved unscrewing something, taking it off, and screwing the new part in.
Please refer to our website for more detailed instructions on some of the more difficult repair items such as motors and door coils.
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on June 25, 2009 at 1:23 pm
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on June 30, 2009 at 7:49 pm
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My garage door is off track. The steel cable becomes unwound when I start opening the door. This is the right drum cable. How can I fix this problem ?
on February 8, 2010 at 3:39 pm
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on February 11, 2010 at 4:05 pm
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on February 16, 2010 at 12:23 am
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on February 16, 2010 at 12:24 am
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