Straighten Garage Door Strut

Purchase a strut that is 1 inch shorter than the door width.

Straighten garage door strut.

If it s a simple dent then this shouldn t be too hard to do. Struts frequently bend when an opener lifts a 16 foot steel door that has a broken spring. You ll need a 2x4 of wood and a rubber mallet. 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 provide additional support for the garage door panel s and help prevent bending of the panel s. Place the wood on the distended side of the door and tap it with the hammer. Struts can be used on metal vinyl and wood garage doors.

Struts can be installed on any of the panels. When we add one or more struts to your door we factor in the additional weight. One of the most simple fixes you can do is hammering out the bend in the door. 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. Hammer out the bend. Doors over 10 feet wide usually have at least one strut across the top panel. Purchase four strut clips if you have a wood door or two strut clips per stile for steel doors.

Five star doors adds an additional strut to all our garage door installs. These struts can be straightened by locking the door removing the strut and straightening it. This will often leave a one to three inch gap in the center of the top section.