Garage door opener installation method
Step 1: Mechanical devices should be installed in the center of the door. In order to determine the installation location, use tape to measure the width of the garage door, this is the central part of the mid-point distance. The inside of the door, starting from the center to draw a perpendicular to the top of the short-term. If you hook installed in this line, the door will increase the weight of the point of balance, hook is used to raise and lower the door mechanism.
Step 2: raise and lower the garage door, observe the highest point of its operation. Mark this position, because you must run the tracks above the highest point of the door, otherwise, the door will open and the tracks in the collision.
Step 3: Watch your garage door in the vertical dividing line is drawn above the area, this position must have a suitable connector supports the front rail. If the lack of structural parts of your garage, install a front bearing plate, to a specification 5X15 cm long board on the garage door to run the highest point above the central location and across the square head screws on both sides of its Qiang Zhu fixed. Will mark the highest point on the description to this board, and the vertical extension of the central door, but also draw on the block.
Step 4: Follow the steps described kits will be receiving the garage floor rail motor device. In the garage door down, the lift on the outside end of most tracks, will be fixed in the front bearing plate, bearing plate in the door and the center line marking the highest point 5 cm above the intersection, the track frame with a square head screws are usually bearing plate fixed to the front. However, if the bolts and nuts, you must have the appropriate pre-drilled holes in host board, be sure to put in the bottom of the bolt head gasket, so that they are being pressed into the wood.
Step 5: The motor components up to the tracks into the horizontal direction, or parallel with the door track. The motor components are fixed or supported in this position, and then move up and down the garage door openers genie by hand to ensure that the location of the tracks will not hinder the movement of the door. Are you sure the motor parts in the correct location and height, the use of metal stents to prop up its fixed beam in the garage. If the location of the motor components between two joists, or joists and tracks the same direction, you must be a specification for the 5X10 cm long board fixed between two joists, and then installed in the bracket block of wood. If the garage ceiling was polished, you can head to install a 1.9 cm thick plywood and use lag screws to secure it to shore up the beam, and then bolt durable wall system components will be installed to connect to the plywood.
