One Side Of Garage Door Higher Than Other

Adjusting the other track.

One side of garage door higher than other.

There are several things that can cause this. The easiest way to solve this problem is when installing the door space the jambs off the floor when possible. 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. The mark on the shaft should be about 1 4 above the mark on the drum as shown.

If the door was closing too quickly move the spring to the next higher hole on the bracket. In the next series of steps you will move your ladder to the other side and climb up to the left cable drum. When the door is placed directly on the floor and it s not level it causes one side of the door hinge or latch side to be higher than one another. Maybe someone bumped into it recently.

If it was opening too quickly move it to the next lower hole. 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. Using a marker or file mark the shaft and the drum. This can happen when the door has shifted to one side causing it to appear uneven.

If the gap under the door is less than one inch make the marks 1 8 apart. Adjust the springs on both sides of the door the same way. 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. Sometimes your garage door will close on top of an object and the cable on that side will pop off.

The door runs are housed in a garage door track one on each side of the garage door. Garage door crooked and the cable came off. When this happens you need to shift it back into position. The most simple and common is door shift.

Some times you need to adjust the garage door.