Most brands recommend the door should remain in position when you
let go of it at half way opened/closed, or thereabouts. While
you're at it, I hope you're also including safety wires in case a
spring should break? I can tell you from personal experience, it
does happen and is one hell of a surprise when you're nearby g.
Also a little destructive.
A couple other comments are inline:
MUADIBŪ wrote:
Does anyone have tips on balancing a one piece
(non-sectional,
non-rollup) wooden garage door (2-car garage). I'm replacing
all
four springs, and putting in a new Genie screw drive opener
(last
one lasted 26 yrs!) I've always been under the impression
that if
the door holds stationary when the bottom of the door is
about a
foot or two off the ground that the door is balanced...is
this true?
Is there a problem that requires NEW springs?
== That's not what he asked. Knowing that would not get a
useful answer to his question if YOU were to decide it didn't
have to be done. Please stick to the subject matter when you
respond.
If not, Leave them alone and just put up a new opener if it
has gone
bad.
== We don't know whether it's gone bad, but that's not relevant
to the question posed here.
I cannot see the benefit of changing something that is not
having
problems, unless you are going to change design type.
== That's an opinion, based on unknown information, and not
relevant.
Going to a Sectional overhead door, is a great excuse to
change, but
if there is no direct benefit from it other than ,
say,..........Cosmetics,..........Why bother?
== Not only is it irrelevant, but it's condescending of you to
make such statements. Do you know something we don't about that
situation? I doubt it.
I do believe a Sectional overhead to be a safer type of door
than the
one piece version you have described. I have had both and
Wouldn't
spend a dime for repair on a single piece unit.
== He didn't ask if you had enough money to be able to buy new
instead of repair now, did he?
The weight of the
single piece will almost certainly kill almost any new model
consumer
grade garage door opener in short order also.
== Completely and totally wrong. From you answer, I don't
believe you had one or that you even had an accurate idea how
they operate. There are at least three different possibilities
in how they operate, and none would put any more stress on an
opener than a normal sectional door.
The one you had for 26
years was likely a much better quality unit than anything that
can be
bought nowadays and was probably built with the single piece
door in
mind, as more of them were used on residences at the time of
manufacture.
== Again, you are only appearing condescending, even egocentric
about all this. Try warez groups if all you want to do is make
posts for no good reason.
This opinion and suggestion is merely that. I do understand
your
installation, but not the need to "fix" the unbroken.
== No, you (admittedly, in fact, earlier) do NOT understand his
installation.
Hope this helps at all.
== When one has nothing to say, that's exactly what one should
say.
Regards,
Pop
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