Straighten Garage Door Strut

Struts can be installed on any of the panels.

Straighten garage door strut.

Purchase four strut clips if you have a wood door or two strut clips per stile for steel doors. These struts can be straightened by locking the door removing the strut and straightening it. A 16 wood door should have 3 or more struts but insulated steel doors should have at least two. You will then need to straighten the top section and reinstall the strut.

Most residential doors have a strut pre installed at the top of the top panel on the garage door. Watch this video to see how to fix it easily. Five star doors adds an additional strut to all our garage door installs. Doors over 10 feet wide usually have at least one strut across the top panel.

Is your garage door popping or making a loud thud when you are opening or closing it. A garage door strut is a metal piece designed to provide horizontal strength and rigidity to a garage door panel. Stiles are the metal braces that run from the top to the bottom of a door section. Purchase a strut that is 1 inch shorter than the door width.

Many doors come standard with a strut acros. Struts frequently bend when an opener lifts a 16 foot steel door that has a broken spring. Sorry for some reason i d. Measure the width of your door with a tape measure.

When we add one or more struts to your door we factor in the additional weight.