Anatomy Of A Garage Door Frame

The anatomy of a garage door common repair symptoms and everyone a homeowner needs to know about garage repair details written by big mike parks published.

Anatomy of a garage door frame.

Keeps the garage door balanced and stable as it opens and closes. Traditionally this cap molding was solid but since a solid molding this large is hard to come by we substituted 2 1 4 in. The chain of your garage door opener is what does most of the lifting. The horizontal track of your garage door opener is the path your carriage moves along in order to open your garage door.

The door jamb is one of the most visible door pieces so much so that people sometimes confuse it with the frame itself. Door glass is usually made from individual pieces of clear beveled and or textured glass. Anatomy of a tilt garage door. A sectional door the most common variety rolls up and down on steel tracks.

Most people know about the drive unit and garage door opener remote. Supports the top section of a garage door. Counterbalances door s weight so that it can be lifted easily. Now we re getting into an uncharted area of garage door anatomy.

Introduction energy efficient technologies. Door glass is inserted into the door to add character to a door panel as well as provide extra natural light. However behind the jamb and inside the wall the structural hidden part of the door frame is an important part of the door anatomy. A common place for wood rot to be found is on the lower part of a garage door trim jamb this repair seems intimidating but it is actually a very easy repair.

Carriage house door co. A solid steel handle of a tool that helps carry over the torsion springs lifting force to the cable drums and lifting cables. Introduction thermal perfomance. We tend to take our garage doors for granted.

Model 305i in insulated steel with composite overlay trim. An optional glass panel that rests above the door frame. Decorative door glass comes in many different. 19 september 2016 a modern garage door is a complex piece of machinery that is called upon to work perfectly day after day year after year.

Anatomy of an exterior door. Door glass inserts what we know best. The fillet a 1x6 and the cap molding. The two vertical frames are called side jambs and the horizontal frame is referred to as the head jamb.

The parts of an exterior door. Anatomy of a garage door illustration by jason lee. Frames are made up of composite material solid wood or veneered wood. The frame sometimes called a jamb is made up of three separate pieces and surrounds the door creating a frame in which the door can sit.

It s made up of three parts.