How To Weigh A Heavy Garage Door

Slowly lower the garage door back down until the garage door is sitting on the scale.

How to weigh a heavy garage door.

Often the outer carriage will. The first step to weighing your garage door in weighing your garage door is unwinding the garage door springs to remove the tension from the torsion cables. Disengaging the trolley from the drawbar carriage is not enough. Struts add on average 1 lb per linear foot to the door weight so a strut for a double door 16ft wide will add about 16lbs to the total door weight.

You can do this by backlining the springs. Make sure your cables are a bit loose when unwinding the spring. Read the scale for the garage door weight. Place a scale under the door.

How to weigh a garage door that has torsion springs 1. Remove the opener arm. Position an analog scale with a board on it in front of the center of the door.