How To Open A Garage Door With Snapped Spring

These ladders will help keep the garage door open when you manage to prop the door open all the way.

How to open a garage door with snapped spring.

Insert each pry bar under the corner of the door between the door and the floor. First set the two step ladders near either end of the door. Have a friend on one side of the door and you on the other side. All though some openers can lift the door you risk damage to the operator and the door.

Pull up on the pry bars. They will have the tools necessary to be able to lift the door and correct it. This time you will need to lift the door s entire weight. In order to do it properly and safely you can follow these steps to open your garage door with a broken spring.

This video will show you how to open a garage door if one of the torsion spring is broken. How to open a garage door that has a broken spring. Even though some garage doors have more than two springs in the operation system. Disengage the door from the opener.

Leaving the garage door open and securing it ensures that the tension on the spring is released. Get two crowbars or pry bars. The garage door may be using a one spring system or a two spring system. On either side of the garage door place two 6 foot ladders.

When the spring breaks on your garage door the door that was so easy to lift has now become a giant metal slab. Position a 6 foot step ladder at each side of the garage door. You may have done this in the case of a burned out motor or a power outage but remember you had the help of the extension springs before. Once the tension is released you can remove the spring from the track.

We recommend recruiting a neighbor or family member to give you a hand. A garage door with a broken spring should not be opened or closed using an automatic operator. This video will show you how to open a garage door if one of the torsion spring is broken. Secure the door open preferably using c clamps.

After you then disconnect the safety cable from one end. You will have to open the door manually.