Measure the width of your door with a tape measure.
Straighten garage door strut.
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Doors over 10 feet wide usually have at least one strut across the top panel.
A garage door strut is a metal piece designed to provide horizontal strength and rigidity to a garage door panel.
This will often leave a one to three inch gap in the center of the top section.
These struts can be straightened by locking the door removing the strut and straightening it.
You will then need to straighten the top section and reinstall the strut.
Is your garage door popping or making a loud thud when you are opening or closing it.
Struts can be used on metal vinyl and wood garage doors.
When we add one or more struts to your door we factor in the additional weight.
Purchase a strut that is 1 inch shorter than the door width.
Most residential doors have a strut pre installed at the top of the top panel on the garage door.
Stiles are the metal braces that run from the top to the bottom of a door section.
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.
Watch this video to see how to fix it easily.
A 16 wood door should have 3 or more struts but insulated steel doors should have at least two.
Struts can be installed on any of the panels.