Cable Replacement
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Cable Replacement
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Garage door cable repair can be both a challenging and dangerous experience. If not carried out with skill and care, it is likely to cause injury and some form of damage to your property. This is also a common hazard with overhead door springs that can easily snap when worn out or not handled carefully. For this reason, you need to be very careful with the whole door whenever you carry out cable repair.
It would help if you had all your tools in place before going through the actual process. There are several situations when you might need a cable repair, and you need to know what to do and how to do it to keep all your fingers intact. It is essential to identify the problem first before starting on the repair process.
REPLACING THE OLD RUSTY CABLE
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Having excessive rust at your bottom garage door panel is a widespread issue here in Canada. But unfortunately, it doesn’t only effects the appearance of your door but also ruins your bottom brackets and cables. If not caught in time, one of your garage door cables will snap, and the door will get stuck in the tracks. There’s one thing you want to avoid when that happens. It’s trying to lift or lower your door by using your opener and hoping it’ll work. From my experience, it always gets much much worst. Sometimes even to the point that you eradicate your door and need a new one, instead of having a 180$ repair done for you by professionals. If you decide to do it by yourself, here’s how you do it…
First things first, unplug your opener and disengage it from the door by pulling a red emergency release cord. When you pull the cord, the door might slide down a little, so be ready for that. Try to lower your door by hand until it’s fully closed. One side will still be a little higher than the other, but that’s normal, you can proceed with the next step.
Now once the door is closed, you need to unwind your springs. Remember, you don’t want to touch your springs if you’re not familiar with how they operate.
Once both springs have no tension, you can start replacing the cables.
At this point, you have two options. You can do a long or short term repair. Here’s what I mean… If you have rusty brackets and cables, replace the whole set. If you install a new garage door cable on a rusty bracket, you’re looking for the same issue within 2-3 years.
Make sure you replace the brackets as well if you’re looking for a long term solution.
Once you put your cables back in place and wind up the springs, make sure you test everything manually before engaging the opener. Make sure the cables stay under a little bit of tension when your door is in a completely open position. This will ensure they won’t fall off the drums when your opener pulls the door up.
It would help if you had all your tools in place before going through the actual process. There are several situations when you might need a cable repair, and you need to know what to do and how to do it to keep all your fingers intact. It is essential to identify the problem first before starting on the repair process.
