Straighten Garage Door Strut

Five star doors adds an additional strut to all our garage door installs.

Straighten garage door strut.

Struts frequently bend when an opener lifts a 16 foot steel door that has a broken spring. Purchase four strut clips if you have a wood door or two strut clips per stile for steel doors. Stiles are the metal braces that run from the top to the bottom of a door section. Most residential doors have a strut pre installed at the top of the top panel on the garage door.

If you notice that your top garage door panel bends in the middle when. Doors over 10 feet wide usually have at least one strut across the top panel. In this video i will show you how to prevent and diy fix a buckling garage door panel. 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. Struts provide additional support for the garage door panel s and help prevent bending of the panel s. Purchase a strut that is 1 inch shorter than the door width. Measure the width of your door with a tape measure.

A 16 wood door should have 3 or more struts but insulated steel doors should have at least two. Place the wood on the distended side of the door and tap it with the hammer. You will then need to straighten the top section and reinstall the strut. One of the most simple fixes you can do is hammering out the bend in the door.

Hammer out the bend. These struts can be straightened by locking the door removing the strut and straightening it. If it s a simple dent then this shouldn t be too hard to do.