Garage Door Not Level With Floor

Keep the door open a few feet off the ground as this takes the pressure off the door springs.

Garage door not level with floor. These doors are generally more than 20 years old. An un even floor in your garage it is very common. But you can make an effective self adjusting door sweep from inexpensive preformed slit foam pipe insulation. It breaks up really easily.

In nearly 90 of these instances a wood garage door was removed. If your garage floor is uneven it can be difficult to obtain a good door bottom seal. In most cases its due to foundation movement tree root seasonal wether patterns and can be a little as a 1 8 inch difference on either side of the bottom garage door. The floor in my garage is not leveled.

Put a ladder under the door to make sure it won t close accidentally while you re working on it. That might seem extreme but you may be surprised that with the right tool like a jackhammer you can have your entire floor torn out in a couple of hours. Have us inspect the side and top seal while we re there. A more severe uneven floor can be up to a foot in some places where homes are built on a hill and require a custom fit bottom section that is up to 21 inches difference.

The claim is always that their old garage door did not have a gap. So if you re experiencing and uneven floor call the experts and we ll get you fixed up straight away. Can it damage my garage door. Your overhead door team.