How To Install A Garage Door

**How to Install a Door with a Plastic Track**

To start, we need to pull this back out and put about four different screws in just small little uh like number six um Flathead screws they'll go up in one of these tracks into the door just to keep this from sliding around usually it's attached but it wasn't in this case. Okay so we covered that we're just going to pop right outside to the door that's already complete and I'll just go over the uh weather stripping for you so you can see how it fits.

Our weather strip is right here, it's got a rubber lip on it and then this piece of metal here, they're going to come in uh a little bit oversized length so you're going to have to cut it. So I run my upper one, I cut it the same size as the opening maybe an eighth of an inch less, and I I'll fasten it on you just want to push it up against the door so the rubber actually folds up and around kind of a little bit against the door. This way it gets a bit of a water and snow seal there, um so I put the upper one on and then I have to kind of depending on your weather strip these can be all different, so I don't want to get too far into detail because yours could be totally different.

But I had to not make a notch in this rib of the side ones so it fits up nice my rubber overlaps the other one so you get a nice fit in the corner, same thing cut it basically to height and screw it on, you can screw it nail it whatever. I like to use screws but you can see I got a nice fit down to the bottom and everything. Not really rocket science and like I said I don't want to go into too much detail because yours could be totally different but whatever you've got there it should look similar to this and just uh make it work.

Okay so we've got the door completed, one thing I didn't I forgot one more thing, on the outside of the panels there usually be some kind of uh protective plastic film over it. Make sure you take that off off uh once that film sits in the hot sun for a few days it just kind of bakes on there and it's darn near impossible to get off and it looks like it's got a bad stain, let's just put it that way so make sure you pull that film off.

We've got it all complete, we've got it operating really nice and smoothly, we've got the weather strip on the bottom. I'm just going to have to do the outside of this one, uh pretty happy with how it turned out for the average person that's never done this before expect that it's going to take you probably at least four to 5 hours by yourself if you have some help it might speed you up definitely a little bit. As you do a couple you'll get a little quicker yet but it's going to take you half the day for sure, plan on that.

If it's a bigger door you're definitely going to want some help if it's higher once you start getting much over you know 10 ft High you might as well hire it out because uh it just gets a little precarious using scaffold or ladders all the time. But for the average residential door, it's not that big of a deal. As you've seen other than that spring, it's the most dangerous thing you're going to deal with.

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**Optional Locking Hardware**

If you're not installing an opener, it's highly recommended that you purchase and install locking hardware to secure the door. This will ensure the safety and security of your home. We have a video on how to do this as well, so be sure to check it out.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enhi I'm Shannon from host improvements.com and today I want to show you how I would install an overhead garage door so we've got an example here because I've already installed this one uh basically what we have in this case is a 10t wide by 8T High uh four panel door okay we've also got some windows in it as you see but that's that's just an extra feature yours may not necessarily have that um uh so basically what we're going to do is we're going to go right through the steps uh I purchased just the whole package uh it is a a custom size typically in a grad you're either going to have 16 wide by seven High usually or uh nine wide by seven High uh we're we're extended height here because we're in a a building that has 10ft walls 9ft walls actually and uh so we're able to get 8ft doors in here so it doesn't really affect anything on the door installation uh you just have to order the correct size door so as you can see here behind me uh once I put it in we've got the four panels we've got four panels stacked together they're all hinged together we've got the rail system which is bolted to the walls and then curves up and goes horizontally across and uh supported at the ceiling uh this particular one has an opener as well so we're what we're dealing with strictly in this video is just the ACT actual assembly of the door uh and and just getting it functioning on the wall so uh not to mention uh the parts I already did but uh as well we've got if you look across the top there's a Long Rod that goes from side to side with the spring on it and the roller drums at the ends now those roller drums have a cable connected to them you probably won't see that from way over there but right here that goes all the way to the bottom of the door on both sides and as the door goes up that cable wraps around those those uh drums now the spring itself is there to assist in the lift of the door whether you've got an opener or not you're going going to need to have that spring there and it'll all come as a as a package when you order your door um so um I just thought I'd touch on that you definitely need the spring so I think uh at this point we're just going to reposition and I'll show you how to start out the first step basically is getting these panels uh over to the opening which our opening is over this direction but getting the panels get the hinges on and up against the uh opening itself before we can get the tracks going so we'll just reposition and re be right back okay so we've uh got all our door panels right here all stacked together um so what you're going to want to do is basically go through your panels usually they'll be uh labeled or numbered or something somewhere on the panel usually on the edge uh so that you know what order they go in but uh if they aren't it's not that difficult to kind of just have a quick look figure out usually the bottom one is going to have some kind of track like this that the weather strip will go into so that's an easy one to generally decide where it goes and usually all the panels will have a rubber gasket in the top there's a kind of a Groove here there's a and a rubber gasket there so that usually will indicate which is the top but generally with looking them over and reading your instruction book that comes with uh you can you can pretty much figure it out but get them all stacked in the order you want the uh this top one that we're going to work on first is the very bottom door and then they'll be in order from there as they stack up the wall so as well in the package when you open it up uh we're going to throw a little actually photo clip in here likely and it'll show you what everything looks like laying on the table but all you're going to find all your parts um on the very bottom panel you're going to need some kind of bracket that looks something like this a roller would go in here here one of the rollers for the track eventually will go in here this will be mounted down on the bottom corner of the door it'll also have a a loop or some kind of Peg here for that cable that I was talking about that hooks around there and and attaches to the door so this bottom panel we're going to have a bracket on each corner at the bottom something like this and then we're going to have a hinge at Each corner that uh again the hinges are generally always marked you know 1 2 3 so you can uh easily identify which one is which because they aren't all the same like this is the first door um and this this one will be the one on the top of the second door and the roller so the roller in this one uh would go here the roller in the second one goes here you can see how that the rollers kind of step out they go up the door and that's that just assists in pulling the door away from the opening as it starts to open so there is a there is an order to these these hinges and they are generally quite clearly marked so you shouldn't uh shouldn't be able to mess that up too too bad uh now the other thing on this particular brand of doors they've got a reinforced strip galvanized strip here on the inside uh on the outside edge and it's got a bunch of pre-punched holes in it for all kinds of different Hardware I I imagine uh these holes once you once you take your piece of Hardware that you're putting on you move it around to the general area where it should be you should find that the holes in this Hardware line up with the holes in that Hardware that's indicating that you you've got it in the right spot same thing with this uh as you move it around you'll find the right punched out Hole uh they'll generally come with some self-tapping they will come with some kind of self-tapping Bolt like this so uh get your your get your Hardware lined up where you need it to be don't overtighten it these doors aren't super super uh heavy metal or anything like that so uh I'm not using an impactor I'm using just a a standard uh drill but yet I still want to be careful that I don't strip these out so I find the position I want put it into there get it all uh screwed in this one also there's a there's a hole right down here it won't be punched out on the side but this is nice heavy metal and this is where all the force on your door uh for the uh spring is is uh going to be attached to so I like to put one of these bolts down in here right through this heavier galvanized metal that they have on there uh so here's the hinge this remember this is the top inside of the first panel uh I'm going to move that around your uh roller location is generally right near the The Joint of the door so that helps you also identify it should be uh the edge of it will be out just close to flush to the edge of the door as well so identify which holes you need come on and mount the bracket on there again this is the hinge bracket okay and I'll go to the other end of the door and do the exact same thing uh this is this hinge isn't for this door um now in most cases uh there'll be some intermediate hinges as well depending on the width of your door will depend on how many there's going to be those intermediate hinges you can see them here actually you can see this door comes with one just straight up the middle in every joint uh I won't put those on until I have all the panels stacked up I just find it easier to do that so uh we'll skip that one we'll go right to this end put this one on be sure you're getting the hinge the right direction according to the manufacturer's instructions the uh bottom weather seal in the manufacturer's instructions um kind of shows to put it in right now I actually usually wait until I have the door functional because uh you'll see when I take this panel over and set it down on the concrete floor of the opening and I've got to level the door up before I get started I just find it easier if that rubber gasket isn't isn't in the way if I do have to level it up and I can easily slide it in afterwards so so I'm going to leave that off it's up to you what you want to do okay so I've got that in there just going to put this stuff out of the way now I think I I spoke before these aluminum clad doors are uh you know they're usually a pretty skin thin skin of aluminum so they don't take a lot to mark them so just be careful you're not working on a on the floor where there's stones or something underneath it because you're going to find that you have some dents afterwards so I've just got this raised up on a couple saw horses the panels aren't terribly heavy for this size of door this is an insulated door um you know I should talk about the opening a little bit I'm going to set this out of the way just going to talk briefly about the opening uh also in the instructions for these doors it'll explain exactly how your opening should be framed and finished ready for the door uh so that's important you obviously need that to be done first so um your basic framing for the door is is going to be standard you're going to have uh a header obviously up top you can't see a lot of this because it's covered up with the inside trim that we need for the door but uh you're going to have a header you're going to have uh a couple of uh studs on each side and then another stud going right up from Top plate to bottom plate that's the structure that you need to have in no matter what kind of door it is for the overhead door uh for mounting then they like uh so you have a nice surface to work with you've got a 2x6 here on the flat going right from the floor all the way to the ceiling one on both sides you also across the top of the door right here have another 2x6 that runs all the way across between the two vertical ones and then above that in the center of the door you need a block of uh a solid block of wood for mounting hardware and those sorts of things too so in this case we used a piece of 2x12 that we had and it's going right from this 2x6 all the way up to the top of the wall okay so those are kind of uh the bits and pieces you need on there before you can even Mount any of this Hardware the other thing that I'm going to mention is that um when you're planning your garage to frame you know to frame your uh frame your opening and that sort of thing just going to get back here out of the Sun a little bit is uh if your door if you want a an 8 by sorry a a 10t wide by 8T High door like what we have here your actual finished opening should be 10t wide by 8 foot high okay so whatever your door size is that's your opening your finished opening size in my case I usually like to frame that just a little bit narrower like even a quarter of an inch and you'll see why here in a minute so uh that when we lean our panels in there to set the door up they don't fall through the opening um in this case I I actually did frame this building and I framed the opening a little bit too wide so what I did uh off camera is I nailed on these little temporary strips right here to just narrow up the door opening until we get the door panels all standing in there and everything and uh they give something for the door to lean against okay so uh as I was saying your door opening will be the same size as your door or slightly less if if uh you you want it that way okay so I think uh We've touched everything there I'm going to take the panel now like I started to and set it in the opening oh something I forgot to do is put the rollers in it let me just grab those the rollers usually there's no difference in the rollers themselves it's the hinges that are different so the rollers are all a standard size that I've ever seen and uh so it doesn't matter which spot you put them in they just all need to be in there so I'm just going to slide those in right now you could put them in after you can see I've got a bit of a grade beam in the way here so I I can't get the bottom one in after so I needed to get it in right now and I'm just moving the door right up against those strips that I added and I'm just double-checking that I'm basically centered in the opening equal amount just like so and uh now the next thing I'm going to do I've got that pushed right back against this wood I'm going to take a just a standard 3-in framing nail I'm going to nail into that wood right beside the door a little bit and I'm going to just bend it over just like that whoops that one didn't because I made my door a little opening a little narrow it's okay so I'm just going to bend that nail over that's going to hold that panel there otherwise the wind or just gravity is going to take over and it's going to fall out okay so same thing okay just bend them over double check that it uh is still centered in your opening yeah it's good adjust it if you need too but that'll just keep that panel there from falling over and we're going to do that on every panel too to hold them uh flip this hinge down out of your way so that when you carry the next one in and set it on there it's uh the hinge isn't going to be in your way okay so we've got that sitting there I'm just going to check that the door is sitting level and actually it's it's fine right there it's slightly low there but not enough to worry about uh if it's less than a 16th or less than an eighth even out of level from one end to the other then you're you're plenty good the bubble was barely even off center there so I'm going to leave that we're going to go to the next panel and put the hinges on it okay so here's my next panel I had all these panels sitting so that the bottom Edge is to this side where I'm working from so I don't get myself mixed up now all this next two subsequent panels all they need is the two Corner hinges at the top so this is panel number two I'm grabbing the number two hinges and uh same thing again make sure you've got them orientated right uh according to the manufacturers instructions so that the uh the hole for the uh roller is in the either up or down position whichever way your manufacturer wants them and again this is similar we just want to bring it up get it matched up to the holes that correspond with the ones in the bracket and pop the bolts in I'll just do the same thing on both ends okay so same thing now now I'm going to take this panel and lift it up and I'm just going to set it right on that other one carefully and get it lined up so it's even with the last panel that you did just like that I'm going to use a nail again now the doors uh the edges of the doors are a little bit uh I don't know what the right word is there're they're they kind of fit together they don't really lock together but they fit together so the the will usually sit there without any problem it's just the top that you need to throw the nail in and I'll just uh screw the other hinges up to that and that'll help secure it again okay so all I've got to do is rotate that up it should correspond to some of those holes just like so oops wrong screw okay and uh just going to keep working my way up uh the next panel is exactly the same as the last one um other than it has Windows in but that doesn't affect anything we're doing get in there okay so I'll throw the hinges on the next door so these will be uh hinges number three okay so this uh this door here is just like the last one we just have top hinges so I'm just going to put these hinges on put the door up in place and uh we'll come back when I'm going to do the last panel we're down to the the very top panel right now I'm at the top edge of the panel there's a slightly different bracket that goes on here this bracket goes on and then has an adjustable uh sliding piece for the uh for the roller so that's the only difference on these panels um this bracket here read your instruction manual but uh for this manufacturer they want it approximately 4 in down from the top I get to about 4 and 1 e and it all lines up nicely with the holes so that's where I'm going to put it so uh that's that's the main difference here I'm going to mount this on I'll do this one end completely it's pretty self-explanatory once you see it but I'll do this one end and then uh when we come back I'll already have the panel up in place now one thing let me I'll I'll finish this before I get you too confused with anything else okay I'm going to there's a two different holes here I'm just going to see if I can tell which one I used last time so I don't have to waste a bunch of time it looks like I used the top one so this bracket just fits through a slotted hole a nut in a bolt I really should have just put it on there before I bolted it to the door easier to do now I actually I brought a wrench over but I'm not going to tighten it right now because uh I'll need to adjust that afterwards okay so you do the same thing on both ends okay uh something I'm going to just talk about for a quick second because uh if you're doing a using a wider door um generally once they get over 12 ft most man manufacturers will have a reinforcing strip or bracket that will go across the top of the door to give it a little extra strength um this door doesn't come with that because of the width it doesn't require it there's a couple different styles some are just like an angle iron kind of bracket that'll be probably cut to length that just gets bolted right or screwed right through right across the top at whatever position your manufacturer asks for some will have a flat strap and each end will have a screw hole so it gets screwed in there and there's a bracket usually two of them that go into the door and that bracket has a little teeter totter deal that you just push into position to tighten up that that strap so anyways just watch for that if you're doing a wider door that'd be the only thing different that you're going to see compared to what we've done here so I'm going to go to that end put that roller bracket on and then I'm going to throw the door in place and uh when we come back I will have all the hinges all screwed on and we'll be ready for the next step Okay so we've got upper upper panel in place and uh screwed on with the hinges we've also gone ahead and put in the very top and bottom center hinge I'm going to show you on the on this one that's easy to reach uh basically what I did so you want to just measure over find the center of the door put a pencil Mark and uh then line up the joint and the hinge here with the seam in the door and I'm just using the same screws that I did to uh put the other Hing is all on so I don't have a magnetic end so this is a little tricky okay so just get the hinge straight throw on another screw so like I said ear earlier in the video some doors might have a couple of these hinges at each joint so then just measure them out equally or however you decide to do it okay so we've got the center hinges in and uh now the next step is we want to get the uh side rails on so I'm going to completely do one side so you can see uh how that's done and then that way uh basically just do the same thing on the other side we'll do that off camera just to save a bit of bit of time here so um what you're going to have we'll just look at this door here quickly um you're going to have a a vertical rail which is going to be just straight like this okay it won't come with these brackets on there the brackets and the bolts and everything will be in the bag uh I've just kind of got them semi-attached on there to speed things up so we're going to basically install this this upper rail first and then uh from there we're going to install this bracket with a bearing and uh and rod holder and then that upper curved rail that you see there okay so we've got all our rollers in the door like so uh we've got our track you want to position the track so that you're going to you're going to see there's a flat side here and then kind of a slightly rounded side here you want the flat side towards the wall so all your brackets are going to get mounted on so that they will go that way as well this would be the wall here okay these are adjustable so I've just got everything loose right now so we can adjust it in and out this bracket's slightly different because it helps connect the uh upper rails and stuff you'll see when we get to that um so once you've got your Hardware just kind of loose on there what you want to do is uh get this all around your rollers okay so usually by going on a bit of an angle it'll just uh fit right around those rollers there and we've already got the door basically centered there so what what you want to do is these rollers have a a bit of a lip on them that prevents them from sliding too far in past this bracket so we just want to create just a just a fraction of space there you know basically an eighth of an inch just to give it a little bit of wiggle room in the track and that will uh position turn our track over to where we where we want it so in this case I want it right about here just take it out just a bit more so your Hardware again it'll come with all these the right bolts and and uh leg bolts and things to mount all this so I'm just going to insert this leg bolt it's a slotted hole in the bracket so I'm going to put the bolt right in the center so if we have to do some adjusting after I can go I can go one way or the other so um before I do that this I think we're just going to change camera angle my camera guys giving me the signal we just need to get our spacing here nice like I said about an eighth of an inch uh we had a bit of a technical difficulty with the camera so we've actually taken this off that's why you're going to see that this bolt has already been in there so uh place the leg bolt in the center of that slotted hole in the bracket fasten it in there I'm a little tight want to have a little bit of movement down there um and uh yeah anyways we don't have to be perfect just yet if we have to adjust it that's why the the hole there is slotted so as we move up the door we've got another bracket here and uh the instructions from your manufacturer will tell you exactly where to place those brackets on the actual rails so I won't get into that uh so we're up here again I want to make sure you can see these little um little flanges on that wheel that keep it from being able to slide in too far I just want to make sure they have a little bit of movement there a little bit of play and I'm going to Center that uh put this in the center of that slotted hole again okay so we've got that in in there these other bolts right now that attach the brackets to the rails are just loose we'll tighten those up as uh we move along here that'll be a little bit later along um I've gone ahead and uh attached excuse me attach this uh upper angle iron that has that bearing uh bracket on it right here this is where the rod would go through through this bearing I've already loosely attached it here on the top of this rail now uh what I want to do come over to this side I'm going to uh I want to get it on the wall straight in line with this uh rail that we've already done we're going to put the bolts in these slotted holes again okay throw a uh level on that angle iron just to be sure it's running straight Okay so we've got uh that mounted to the wall again this is just loose down here right now now we can actually set our our upper curved bracket that uh Returns the door up along the ceiling up on top of there and get it uh closely in position okay so I've just taken this uh hockey stick shaped piece of metal here this track and I'm just temporarily supporting it by some rope off the rafter close to Plum or sorry close to level for right now and then I just slid it on over top that roller there so I'm going to go back to this end at the door and put in one of these special bolts that they send for all this stuff and I'll maybe uh talk about those here in a second too so you just want to get uh this face and this face of these two pieces of track so they're lining up nicely here actually it's not real important rate at this step but eventually we need to get those right bang on I'm pretty close there right now I'm just going to show you a little bit about these bolts that the bolts that they send at least this manufacturer they have all these uh little uh grooves or nurs here and what those do is they suck into the metal on the pieces as you tighten the nut up and uh prevent it from turning and I'll just show you how that is on here so you can see I've got the bolt through the two pieces of metal but it's still sticking out a bit uh because of the I just got to get my drill in this other hand so you can see how it's sticking out there a little bit but as I tighten this knot it starts to suck it right into the metal and it just uh creates enough tension there that it doesn't Spin and then you just tighten it right up like that so most of the uh bolts you're seeing me use here on the actual tracks and this upper Hardware is all this type of type of B Okay so we've got that on uh we now need a cross support for up top here now this piece this piece here is going to uh basically join from this bracket back here over to one of these holes here so the first thing I do so I just get it Loosely hanging here so that uh it's easier to deal with and that you've seen that hole in that bracket there is slotted so I've got some play this way I need to get it to the point where it uh lines up with one of those two holes in this track so I'm kind of just uh feeling that out it looks like this one here is going to be the one these special bolts I told you about that flat head always goes inside of the tracks anytime they go through the track so that when it sucks in nothing's really in the way of the rollers okay so I just got that stuff all fingertight right now okay so typically I would get to that point on both sides right now and then pull the nails here in the door that we Ed to to uh kind of hold the panels up I don't have that side done just yet in fact I'm going to do that side off camera so uh I'm just going to pull the nails on this side just be careful not to Dent Dent your nice new door this will just give this end of the door come on a little bit of uh free play here so we can adjust it okay the other end still cinched with those bent over nails so we should be all right there okay so what uh what we've got now is now we've got the uh the door has a little bit of movement here and as we start from bottom top we don't want the door right tight against that wood out out here you can see you can actually see light coming in there right now we're going to put a rubber weather strip around that anyways so it's it's not necessar necessary that it has to be right tight there we just want it you know within reason you know an e inch or less um if you get it too tight it causes the door to bind against the wood and uh just uh makes it harder to operate so we're just going to start out I must have have this bracket tightened up already wasn't real tight but there's a bit of tension on it just going to start out at the very bottom we're going to slide this in till we're happy with the uh to the with the space there and then we can tighten that up okay just like that we're just going to work our way along at every bracket and uh just try to maintain that little bit of little bit of play there that's part of the reason that these hinges as I pointed out are kind of stepped out where the roller position is so as the door rolls up it it pulls the door away from the uh from the track a little bit more okay that one's that one's good there we'll go up to that upper bracket now on this one we've got adjust here and as well we have some adjustment here so this one we really can't move too much now right because we've we've already tightened in two points so this really isn't going to move so that's that's its home and go ahead and tighten it right up this curved piece this is where we want to get it lined up to the lower one so we just need to kind of slide everything back to we're nice there and we can can tighten that bolt up just like so all right so we've got that all on there now I'm going to go up I want to throw a level on this and uh get that nice and Plum before we tighten this bracket here otherwise we're going to be fighting against it so to do that we've actually got to add uh some blocking up there to one support the door um track so when the door's rolled up and the weight's up there it isn't doesn't come crashing down and then we're going to put a piece of angled bracket on there to keep that track from wanting to go all over the place just like uh I don't know if you can see from that angle uh I'll show you here in a minute but anyways I've got to cut a piece of block of wood basically what I do is I've already got a piece I've already got a piece right here okay to attach to up in the rafters so what I need now is a piece that of 2x4 that'll hang attached from there hang down actually on this side of the track in a position where one of these holes here uh can be bolted through to that piece of wood and that'll just take that weight so um I'm going to cut that piece of wood and get it in place and uh get the angle bracket on then I'll just come back and kind of explain it okay so I've come back up here I put my level on the upper part of this track and I just want to get it level so then I just adjusted this rope we're kind of already attached down there so that end can't really go up or down so I just adjusted my uh rope system here to uh get myself till the uh the bubble is uh level there now I'm going to go back over to that side so now that we have that we know that that's level we're good here we can actually tighten these bolts up and that'll help support like give some uh stability to this trap right here so I'll tighten this one and tighten this one I'm just going to put my safety glasses on in case any pieces of metal come down like so so that just gives that a little bit more strength there we've got I'm just double- checking I've got all these bolts tighten now so we've got this side all hang nicely okay so I think uh you know really it's just the same thing on the other side I'm going to do that side off camera and then when we come back uh I'll be able to start dealing with the uh the big Rod that goes across and the cables and the spring and all that kind of jazz So Okay so we've got the rail up on both sides of the frame here now and uh like I said I just kind of did that one side completely so that you could see how it was done and the other side is is a mirror image of it uh something else that uh a couple other things that I did off camera is uh up here you'll see we've got a wood block attached up into the ceiling and uh this block is then or the the track I mean Sor is screwed through to the block and that's just holding the weight of the door when the door's up we will be putting an angle brace on here as well afterwards so you'll see us do that just to keep the track from swaying side to side also I added a bolt and a couple nuts on the very end of the track back here and that just allows that if for some reason the door opened higher than it should it would uh hit onto those bolts and the roller wouldn't come out of the end of the track uh we've got all our all our hardware and everything tightened up from the floor up through all this bracing area uh the only thing I have left to do actually now that I look at it is I've got to tighten and adjust this upper bracket here so again I'm just pulling the door in or out to get leave a little bit of a space against the wood and then I'll tighten up that bolt that we put through that bracket on both sides so we'll get that done and then uh the point I'm at is putting up the rod that holds the uh holds the stupid wasp bothering me it holds the spring mechanism here and it also holds the two two outer uh drums cable drums so so I'm just going to uh tighten those brackets up up top and then we'll insert this uh shaft into place okay just a couple of points about uh the Assembly of this all this stuff because it obviously doesn't come all put together um for one thing your spring mechanism this bracket here with the bearing in it comes separately so you've just got to slide it all on the uh on the shaft and bolt put these two bolts through it not a big deal uh in your manual it will tell you which side of that bearing um the spring needs to be on otherwi if you get it on the wrong side it's it's just not going to function properly in this case with this manufacturer they say if your spring is got a red spray painted area on it which on this end it does it needs to be to the left hand side of that bracket so uh we've got that on the bar the right way and right now this just just completely slides on there it's it's not fixed in place yet uh these drums same thing this one has red spray paint on it here it's the left side the other one's black it's the right side they they even have an l and an r on them so that's not a big deal so those just simply slide on there don't tighten anything up yet at this point so I'm going to take this bracket up there and uh first off put the shaft through each bearing at each end so that it sits there and try to get about equal amount so that it's not going to fall out and then I've got A Center Line marked here of the opening I'm going to mount that bracket that the spring is attached to just off center here three or 4 in so that uh it's out of the way for any future door opener or anything like that um also uh I've I can determine the height of that bracket you don't want that pipe to be bent or have an arch in it so what I did is I uh I actually snapped a line you can see it right here there's a line here it's actually level equal distance off the floor right across so what I can do is I measure down from that line to center a hole on those brackets and uh same thing there I want that then I know where the center of that hole is so it's just a matter of a little bit of measuring and you know where you have to be so I'm just going to get that all and then uh you'll see me up there okay so just get it sitting in there just have a quick look or if you have somebody helping you they can have a look and tell you if it's close to equal you just don't want it so close to one end that it's going to fall out of there while you're working I can go just a little bit to my left okay so now I've got that shaft in the right spot I'm going to move this um bearing bracket over I've got my mark like I said up here that references the top of this bracket to get the center of my pipe the same here as it is on both ends and I'm just going to pre-drill a hole through my wooden blocks actually that something uh something isn't quite Computing there just going to recheck my calculations okay so I just had my uh reference reference Mark out of place there uh I could tell as soon as I started to lift on that that I was going to be too high I need to be right there so I'm going to pre-drill this let's get a couple points then I can move this out of the way pre-drill right through there get that shaft back in there and again these leg bolts all come with the with the whole system so uh I I'll just get my bracket mounted and then I'll double check that shaft cuz I might be a little bit out now that I moved it okay I've just got one in I'm just going to make sure my shaft isn't coming out at one end or the other I can go a little bit to the left again we're remember we're not attached nothing is attached to that shaft yet so it's it just moves easy Okay so we've got that bearing uh for the spring all solid there going to get rid of a couple drills and now what I need to do is uh take your two cables they attach down on the bottom corners of the door feed it up behind all the rollers and hook it onto uh each one of the drums get them all unentangled here so I might as well start over here so there's no rocket science to this just uh drop it back there and hook it onto that little uh knob on the end of that bottom bracket if you remember back when I installed those takes a little bit of monkeying around it's pretty tight back there there I got that on there now I'm just going to take that up feed it up behind all make sure I'm behind all the the rollers you don't want to be in don't want to be on this side don't want to be on this side of the rollers just make sure you're getting behind them okay just like that just take a look down there double check that Yen this cable needs to come up on the back side of this cable or this uh drum there's a little slot over on the outside edge that cable hooks right in there and then you just feed it around that drum there's kind of a Groove there that has to follow okay so then uh once you have it in the right Groove just put some good tension on that I think I have the wrench here my pocket just put some good tension on that cable so that it's tight there and uh there's two set screws here in the end we're going to tighten both of them those up so we got the cable tight we just going to tighten those both to the and we're pushed right out against that bearing bracket out there too okay so I just got those two there we're going to go do the same thing on the other side come on here we go and I think you can see it my ladder's right there same thing we just did anyways okay get my cable up around the back side find this slot get that cable in the right groove on there okay and I want to be sure that my uh other side is tight too now before I tighten this one actually it's probably going to fall off of there before I tighten this one what I want to do is take a lock a set of locking vice grips and I'm going to turn the shaft until that cable down there becomes really taunt again and I'm going to clamp the vice grips on onto this pipe and so that they're uh up against the header of the wall here or a stud or something so they can't the heck's going on here thought I had these all sized but I didn't that's probably going to be good okay so again I'm twisting on the shaft getting that cable as taunt as I can and then I want to get those pliers on there so it's holding that shaft from turning and keeping that cable from coming loose okay I've got this wrapped around this side now I want to just pull it tight get the tension up out of it and tighten these two the idea is you want equal amount of pressure on both of those cables so the door pulls up evenly okay so we got those we got the tension on the cable now it's time to the uh for the most uh dangerous part of the whole installation Okay so we've got our two drums keeping our shaft from sliding in or out we've got our Center bearing attached and uh now we're ready to wind the spring now the thing with this spring is it can it can change from manufacturer to manufacturer and it can change depending on which side of the bearing you have it on so the main thing to remember is when you're winding it you want the spring to be get wound in a way that it'll be getting longer and smaller around in distance then you know you're turning it the right way um some something else you could look at if you look here you can see the end of the spring so this spring is wrapped basically as if it was wrapped around that pipe this direction which would be counterclockwise and I'm looking here at the end of the spring where they cut it off whichever way that's pointing I want to turn this the spring forward so in this case I want to turn it up if the end of this was facing down then I'd be turning the spring down okay uh this is as I mentioned before this is the most dangerous thing about this whole installing this door because there's so much tension on these Springs by the time you start getting them even a quarter of the way round uh wound you want to be very sure that uh that you have everything solid you got a good grip on everything what you need is a couple pieces of bar uh I use rebar that fit into these holes fairly fairly snugly actually sorry I've got the end ground just a bit so it fits in better um and you need two of them because what you're going to do is insert whatever you're using in here push it up get the next one in and you're just going to work your way around like that now right now it's really easy once we get like I said a quarter of the way through there's a lot of pressure on there and you don't want one of these to slip out don't use a screwdriver or any kind of makeshift small item uh like I said I'm using 10m rebar I had to slightly grind the end so it fits in there better but you want to use something that's pretty uh you know pretty substantial as far as uh it's going to not bend on you and I don't know what these are maybe 16 20 in long you don't want them much shorter than this or you don't have the leverage either now in your instruction manual it will tell you how many uh turns revolutions you need to turn that spring to wind it properly in this case for this size of door and with this spring package and everything we've got to go eight and 1 half full revolutions so uh it takes a little bit of time once you get it to that point where you've got your full revolutions then you need to have your wrench handy because there's two of these set screws on here again that need to be tightened up okay so keep all this stuff right close by here handy because you don't want to once you get this sprung you don't want to have to unwind it manually to go and get one of these okay so I like to keep my Ranch rate up here okay so I like to keep my body and Limbs and everything right out of the way of these as much as I can this is like I said this is the most dangerous part if you're not comfortable at all with what you see me doing here and don't think you can do it then you should be calling a pro to to come and do this job um this this can definitely injure you okay so I'm going to start by uh basically usually what I do is I make sure those are loose for one thing and I just kind of get the spring sitting there nicely so it I kind of you know it it doesn't have really tension on it but it isn't loose and also at this point I want to take a reference point to you know where my where my full Revolution is going to be so at this point the way this Spring's sitting I've got both my my locking uh bolts here straight up so that's going to be what I'm going to call my zero position so once I turn them around and get them back to there that's one revolution so you need a reference so you can kind of keep track cuz like I said once you start doing this you don't want to be stopping to mess with anything else so I'm going to go ahead and start and uh just get this just get this wound right around I've never seen it happen but I would hate for one of these Springs to break so I'm going to put my safety glasses on as well I've seen them break once they're older just from over from being used but not when winding it okay so there's two revolutions right now there's three there's already a fairly good amount of pressure on there you can see if I wanted to let go that would just take right off there's four even my cameraman's counting keeping track for me cuz with all my blabbering here I might lose track of where I'm at great camera man there's five that's six right there and again just make sure you're pushing these these uh dowels or whatever you're using to do this right into the hole so you're you're getting good good amount of that in there you don't want it to slip out so there's six right cameraman seven see I lost track with all my talking I knew I would so I'm coming around for my eighth full Revolution which is right there well almost right there that's eight I needed 8 and 1/2 so I need those to be pointing down so we're coming around got lots of tension on that right now I'm going to get rid of one bar I've got that one in there seated in there really firmly now because of the position of it for safety sake I'm going to put my shoulder right under that bar it can't I can't slip out of my hand or anything I'm going to tighten these up now basically what they recommend is once you can feel that this uh bolt set Bolt bolt set screw has made contact with the shaft you want one full Revolution after that to ensure that it's in there enough okay so now I've got that in there I still haven't really taken a hand my hand off of that bar I usually put one put my second one back in when I'm going to release it just to be sure I've got kind of a little bit extra backup there in case in case something malfunctions Okay so we've got that all set we've got those tight we hopefully won't have to touch it again now I've got to go down I've got to remove those locking pliers that we had on there and then uh with any luck at all I should be able to uh go down and actually lift this door by hand so now it should lift fairly easily uh We've pulled make sure you pull all your bent over Nails out uh you don't want any of them in the way protruding where the door will get caught on that we should be able to lift the door without really much effort at all there should be some effort but not not a whole lot the spring is there to assist in the lift even if you're using a a door opener okay so that opens up pretty nicely I thought I heard something kind of catch a little bit when I first lifted it over over on this one side oh yes there we go right down there I've got one of those nuts that I must not have tightened completely uh what size was that yeah it's this size so I'm going to just tighten that up it's just sticking out into the track so the roller was catching on it right there actually you know when I did the second side I guess I didn't tighten those up those upper ones I got that's all good somehow I missed that one there so let's see we shouldn't hear anything catching on anything now again yes just operates really nice and smoothly okay so now we've got the door open uh hopefully that sunlight isn't totally blinding you in the picture right now um what I need to do now is just kind of look here I'm going to grab my tape if I just have a look right up here at the uh roller you can see how that uh door wants to keep moving a little bit let me just push it all the way up I can hardly reach it you can see how the roller shaft is extending out of this bracket oh I don't know maybe 38 of an inch okay so uh we just need to uh put an angle bracket on here I'll show you how to do that goes across here and that'll just keep the track from moving in and out cuz you don't want that roller to come out I'm just looking at this side to see what we got here this side it's not quite as much I generally like to see around a quarter of an inch to half an inch of play in there at the very uh end of these tracks up at the top that way your door isn't isn't uh binding when you open it right up so I'm just going to get get some ladders set up and I'll put the braces on up there okay so like I said we're going to put an angled brace on there your uh garage door will come with a few pieces of this uh angle iron that's punched full holes and of course the the uh leg bolts we've been using so I'm going to Simply attach this through this wooden bracket that I dropped down and up there you could they send you enough that you could actually do these verticals with this metal as well I just prefer using the wood uh for this and then the metal for this one so I'm going to get uh hopefully organized here get this in place you may have to cut your this metal shorter or whatever to work for your situation kind of doing this really awkwardly I'm going to put this one in so these are just giving some rigidity to this piece so that your track stays uh in line where you're wanting it to I'll throw another bolt up here now if you if you had a finished sealing already say it's drywalled or ply wooded or whatever you may actually have to uh you know basically use three of these so you'd have one mounted across the ceiling up against your finished ceiling that's actually attached directly into the rafters so you know you have to find your Rafters and make sure that you can get a bolt into each one so that would be horizontally right against the ceiling then you would drop another one down from it to attach here to hold the weight and then a third one across on the on the angle to uh pick that all up again you could do that with wood some of those pieces could be you could be wood too so uh but if you have a finished seiling in this case obviously we don't but if you do that's what you need to do just be sure it's attached not just through the drywall or plywood it's got to be into some solid wood so so I'm going to do the same thing on the other side okay I almost forgot about the weather stripping on the bottom of the door and the and the outside too uh we've just opened the door up I just clamped these pliers on here to keep the door from wanting to go all the way up we're going to put the bottom weather strip on and it'll it comes with the door you can get Replacements of these as well so uh this particular one just is a big roll uh you basically pinch it in half you can see it's kind of got a t t Edge on on both top edges there and they slide into this plastic Channel that's already on the bottom of the door so it's just a matter getting it in there and started like so kind of keeping it pinched it goes on really good for the first couple feet just like that with one person uh after that you kind of need a second person to kind of keep guiding it in here at this end while the other one pulls it that way so so that's really all there is to that actually it looks like uh this track usually it's already screwed to the bottom of the door but this plastic track must not be so I'll just have to uh pull this back out and I'll put about four different screws in just small little uh like number six um Flathead screws they'll go up in one of these tracks into the door just to keep this from sliding around usually it's attached but it wasn't in this case okay so we covered that we're just going to pop right outside to the door that's already complete and I'll just go over the uh weather stripping for you so you can see how it fits okay so our weather strip is right here it's got a rubber lip on it and then this piece of metal here uh they're going to come in uh a little bit oversized length so you're going to have to cut it so what I do is I run my upper one I cut it the same size as the opening maybe an eighth of an inch less and I I'll fasten it on you just want to push it up against the door so the rubber actually folds up and around kind of a little bit against the door this way it gets a bit of a water and snow seal there um so I put the upper one on and then I have to kind of depending on your weather strip these can be all different so I don't want to get too far into detail because yours could be totally different but I had to not make a notch in this rib of the side ones so it fits up nice my rubber overlaps the other one so you get a nice fit in the corner same thing cut it basically to height and screw it on you can screw it nail it whatever I like to use screws but you can see I got a nice fit down to the bottom and everything so uh not really rocket science and like I said I don't want to go into too much detail because yours could be totally different but whatever you've got there it should look similar to this and just uh make it work so okay so uh we've got the door completed uh one thing I didn't I forgot one more thing uh on the outside of the panels there usually be some kind of uh protective plastic film over it make sure you take that off off uh once that film sits in the hot sun for a few days it just kind of bakes on there and it's darn near impossible to get off and it looks like looks terrible let's just put it that way so make sure you pull that film off um we've got it all complete we've got it operating really nice and smoothly we've got the weather strip on the bottom I'm just going to have to do the outside of this one and uh pretty happy with how it turned out for the average person that's never done this before expect that it's going to take you probably at least four to 5 hours by yourself if you have some help it might speed you up definitely a little bit uh as you do a couple you'll get a little quicker yet but it's going to take you half the day for sure plan on that uh if it's a bigger door you're definitely going to want some help if it's higher once you start getting much over you know 10 ft High you might as well hire it out because uh it just gets a little precarious using scaffold or ladders all the time so but for the average residential door uh it's not that big of a deal as you've seen other than that spring it's the most dangerous thing 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this I'm just going to mention that if you aren't doing an opener on here then you're going to want to buy a locking hardware and put it on we're going to be doing an opener check out our video for that thanks again for watchinghi I'm Shannon from host improvements.com and today I want to show you how I would install an overhead garage door so we've got an example here because I've already installed this one uh basically what we have in this case is a 10t wide by 8T High uh four panel door okay we've also got some windows in it as you see but that's that's just an extra feature yours may not necessarily have that um uh so basically what we're going to do is we're going to go right through the steps uh I purchased just the whole package uh it is a a custom size typically in a grad you're either going to have 16 wide by seven High usually or uh nine wide by seven High uh we're we're extended height here because we're in a a building that has 10ft walls 9ft walls actually and uh so we're able to get 8ft doors in here so it doesn't really affect anything on the door installation uh you just have to order the correct size door so as you can see here behind me uh once I put it in we've got the four panels we've got four panels stacked together they're all hinged together we've got the rail system which is bolted to the walls and then curves up and goes horizontally across and uh supported at the ceiling uh this particular one has an opener as well so we're what we're dealing with strictly in this video is just the ACT actual assembly of the door uh and and just getting it functioning on the wall so uh not to mention uh the parts I already did but uh as well we've got if you look across the top there's a Long Rod that goes from side to side with the spring on it and the roller drums at the ends now those roller drums have a cable connected to them you probably won't see that from way over there but right here that goes all the way to the bottom of the door on both sides and as the door goes up that cable wraps around those those uh drums now the spring itself is there to assist in the lift of the door whether you've got an opener or not you're going going to need to have that spring there and it'll all come as a as a package when you order your door um so um I just thought I'd touch on that you definitely need the spring so I think uh at this point we're just going to reposition and I'll show you how to start out the first step basically is getting these panels uh over to the opening which our opening is over this direction but getting the panels get the hinges on and up against the uh opening itself before we can get the tracks going so we'll just reposition and re be right back okay so we've uh got all our door panels right here all stacked together um so what you're going to want to do is basically go through your panels usually they'll be uh labeled or numbered or something somewhere on the panel usually on the edge uh so that you know what order they go in but uh if they aren't it's not that difficult to kind of just have a quick look figure out usually the bottom one is going to have some kind of track like this that the weather strip will go into so that's an easy one to generally decide where it goes and usually all the panels will have a rubber gasket in the top there's a kind of a Groove here there's a and a rubber gasket there so that usually will indicate which is the top but generally with looking them over and reading your instruction book that comes with uh you can you can pretty much figure it out but get them all stacked in the order you want the uh this top one that we're going to work on first is the very bottom door and then they'll be in order from there as they stack up the wall so as well in the package when you open it up uh we're going to throw a little actually photo clip in here likely and it'll show you what everything looks like laying on the table but all you're going to find all your parts um on the very bottom panel you're going to need some kind of bracket that looks something like this a roller would go in here here one of the rollers for the track eventually will go in here this will be mounted down on the bottom corner of the door it'll also have a a loop or some kind of Peg here for that cable that I was talking about that hooks around there and and attaches to the door so this bottom panel we're going to have a bracket on each corner at the bottom something like this and then we're going to have a hinge at Each corner that uh again the hinges are generally always marked you know 1 2 3 so you can uh easily identify which one is which because they aren't all the same like this is the first door um and this this one will be the one on the top of the second door and the roller so the roller in this one uh would go here the roller in the second one goes here you can see how that the rollers kind of step out they go up the door and that's that just assists in pulling the door away from the opening as it starts to open so there is a there is an order to these these hinges and they are generally quite clearly marked so you shouldn't uh shouldn't be able to mess that up too too bad uh now the other thing on this particular brand of doors they've got a reinforced strip galvanized strip here on the inside uh on the outside edge and it's got a bunch of pre-punched holes in it for all kinds of different Hardware I I imagine uh these holes once you once you take your piece of Hardware that you're putting on you move it around to the general area where it should be you should find that the holes in this Hardware line up with the holes in that Hardware that's indicating that you you've got it in the right spot same thing with this uh as you move it around you'll find the right punched out Hole uh they'll generally come with some self-tapping they will come with some kind of self-tapping Bolt like this so uh get your your get your Hardware lined up where you need it to be don't overtighten it these doors aren't super super uh heavy metal or anything like that so uh I'm not using an impactor I'm using just a a standard uh drill but yet I still want to be careful that I don't strip these out so I find the position I want put it into there get it all uh screwed in this one also there's a there's a hole right down here it won't be punched out on the side but this is nice heavy metal and this is where all the force on your door uh for the uh spring is is uh going to be attached to so I like to put one of these bolts down in here right through this heavier galvanized metal that they have on there uh so here's the hinge this remember this is the top inside of the first panel uh I'm going to move that around your uh roller location is generally right near the The Joint of the door so that helps you also identify it should be uh the edge of it will be out just close to flush to the edge of the door as well so identify which holes you need come on and mount the bracket on there again this is the hinge bracket okay and I'll go to the other end of the door and do the exact same thing uh this is this hinge isn't for this door um now in most cases uh there'll be some intermediate hinges as well depending on the width of your door will depend on how many there's going to be those intermediate hinges you can see them here actually you can see this door comes with one just straight up the middle in every joint uh I won't put those on until I have all the panels stacked up I just find it easier to do that so uh we'll skip that one we'll go right to this end put this one on be sure you're getting the hinge the right direction according to the manufacturer's instructions the uh bottom weather seal in the manufacturer's instructions um kind of shows to put it in right now I actually usually wait until I have the door functional because uh you'll see when I take this panel over and set it down on the concrete floor of the opening and I've got to level the door up before I get started I just find it easier if that rubber gasket isn't isn't in the way if I do have to level it up and I can easily slide it in afterwards so so I'm going to leave that off it's up to you what you want to do okay so I've got that in there just going to put this stuff out of the way now I think I I spoke before these aluminum clad doors are uh you know they're usually a pretty skin thin skin of aluminum so they don't take a lot to mark them so just be careful you're not working on a on the floor where there's stones or something underneath it because you're going to find that you have some dents afterwards so I've just got this raised up on a couple saw horses the panels aren't terribly heavy for this size of door this is an insulated door um you know I should talk about the opening a little bit I'm going to set this out of the way just going to talk briefly about the opening uh also in the instructions for these doors it'll explain exactly how your opening should be framed and finished ready for the door uh so that's important you obviously need that to be done first so um your basic framing for the door is is going to be standard you're going to have uh a header obviously up top you can't see a lot of this because it's covered up with the inside trim that we need for the door but uh you're going to have a header you're going to have uh a couple of uh studs on each side and then another stud going right up from Top plate to bottom plate that's the structure that you need to have in no matter what kind of door it is for the overhead door uh for mounting then they like uh so you have a nice surface to work with you've got a 2x6 here on the flat going right from the floor all the way to the ceiling one on both sides you also across the top of the door right here have another 2x6 that runs all the way across between the two vertical ones and then above that in the center of the door you need a block of uh a solid block of wood for mounting hardware and those sorts of things too so in this case we used a piece of 2x12 that we had and it's going right from this 2x6 all the way up to the top of the wall okay so those are kind of uh the bits and pieces you need on there before you can even Mount any of this Hardware the other thing that I'm going to mention is that um when you're planning your garage to frame you know to frame your uh frame your opening and that sort of thing just going to get back here out of the Sun a little bit is uh if your door if you want a an 8 by sorry a a 10t wide by 8T High door like what we have here your actual finished opening should be 10t wide by 8 foot high okay so whatever your door size is that's your opening your finished opening size in my case I usually like to frame that just a little bit narrower like even a quarter of an inch and you'll see why here in a minute so uh that when we lean our panels in there to set the door up they don't fall through the opening um in this case I I actually did frame this building and I framed the opening a little bit too wide so what I did uh off camera is I nailed on these little temporary strips right here to just narrow up the door opening until we get the door panels all standing in there and everything and uh they give something for the door to lean against okay so uh as I was saying your door opening will be the same size as your door or slightly less if if uh you you want it that way okay so I think uh We've touched everything there I'm going to take the panel now like I started to and set it in the opening oh something I forgot to do is put the rollers in it let me just grab those the rollers usually there's no difference in the rollers themselves it's the hinges that are different so the rollers are all a standard size that I've ever seen and uh so it doesn't matter which spot you put them in they just all need to be in there so I'm just going to slide those in right now you could put them in after you can see I've got a bit of a grade beam in the way here so I I can't get the bottom one in after so I needed to get it in right now and I'm just moving the door right up against those strips that I added and I'm just double-checking that I'm basically centered in the opening equal amount just like so and uh now the next thing I'm going to do I've got that pushed right back against this wood I'm going to take a just a standard 3-in framing nail I'm going to nail into that wood right beside the door a little bit and I'm going to just bend it over just like that whoops that one didn't because I made my door a little opening a little narrow it's okay so I'm just going to bend that nail over that's going to hold that panel there otherwise the wind or just gravity is going to take over and it's going to fall out okay so same thing okay just bend them over double check that it uh is still centered in your opening yeah it's good adjust it if you need too but that'll just keep that panel there from falling over and we're going to do that on every panel too to hold them uh flip this hinge down out of your way so that when you carry the next one in and set it on there it's uh the hinge isn't going to be in your way okay so we've got that sitting there I'm just going to check that the door is sitting level and actually it's it's fine right there it's slightly low there but not enough to worry about uh if it's less than a 16th or less than an eighth even out of level from one end to the other then you're you're plenty good the bubble was barely even off center there so I'm going to leave that we're going to go to the next panel and put the hinges on it okay so here's my next panel I had all these panels sitting so that the bottom Edge is to this side where I'm working from so I don't get myself mixed up now all this next two subsequent panels all they need is the two Corner hinges at the top so this is panel number two I'm grabbing the number two hinges and uh same thing again make sure you've got them orientated right uh according to the manufacturers instructions so that the uh the hole for the uh roller is in the either up or down position whichever way your manufacturer wants them and again this is similar we just want to bring it up get it matched up to the holes that correspond with the ones in the bracket and pop the bolts in I'll just do the same thing on both ends okay so same thing now now I'm going to take this panel and lift it up and I'm just going to set it right on that other one carefully and get it lined up so it's even with the last panel that you did just like that I'm going to use a nail again now the doors uh the edges of the doors are a little bit uh I don't know what the right word is there're they're they kind of fit together they don't really lock together but they fit together so the the will usually sit there without any problem it's just the top that you need to throw the nail in and I'll just uh screw the other hinges up to that and that'll help secure it again okay so all I've got to do is rotate that up it should correspond to some of those holes just like so oops wrong screw okay and uh just going to keep working my way up uh the next panel is exactly the same as the last one um other than it has Windows in but that doesn't affect anything we're doing get in there okay so I'll throw the hinges on the next door so these will be uh hinges number three okay so this uh this door here is just like the last one we just have top hinges so I'm just going to put these hinges on put the door up in place and uh we'll come back when I'm going to do the last panel we're down to the the very top panel right now I'm at the top edge of the panel there's a slightly different bracket that goes on here this bracket goes on and then has an adjustable uh sliding piece for the uh for the roller so that's the only difference on these panels um this bracket here read your instruction manual but uh for this manufacturer they want it approximately 4 in down from the top I get to about 4 and 1 e and it all lines up nicely with the holes so that's where I'm going to put it so uh that's that's the main difference here I'm going to mount this on I'll do this one end completely it's pretty self-explanatory once you see it but I'll do this one end and then uh when we come back I'll already have the panel up in place now one thing let me I'll I'll finish this before I get you too confused with anything else okay I'm going to there's a two different holes here I'm just going to see if I can tell which one I used last time so I don't have to waste a bunch of time it looks like I used the top one so this bracket just fits through a slotted hole a nut in a bolt I really should have just put it on there before I bolted it to the door easier to do now I actually I brought a wrench over but I'm not going to tighten it right now because uh I'll need to adjust that afterwards okay so you do the same thing on both ends okay uh something I'm going to just talk about for a quick second because uh if you're doing a using a wider door um generally once they get over 12 ft most man manufacturers will have a reinforcing strip or bracket that will go across the top of the door to give it a little extra strength um this door doesn't come with that because of the width it doesn't require it there's a couple different styles some are just like an angle iron kind of bracket that'll be probably cut to length that just gets bolted right or screwed right through right across the top at whatever position your manufacturer asks for some will have a flat strap and each end will have a screw hole so it gets screwed in there and there's a bracket usually two of them that go into the door and that bracket has a little teeter totter deal that you just push into position to tighten up that that strap so anyways just watch for that if you're doing a wider door that'd be the only thing different that you're going to see compared to what we've done here so I'm going to go to that end put that roller bracket on and then I'm going to throw the door in place and uh when we come back I will have all the hinges all screwed on and we'll be ready for the next step Okay so we've got upper upper panel in place and uh screwed on with the hinges we've also gone ahead and put in the very top and bottom center hinge I'm going to show you on the on this one that's easy to reach uh basically what I did so you want to just measure over find the center of the door put a pencil Mark and uh then line up the joint and the hinge here with the seam in the door and I'm just using the same screws that I did to uh put the other Hing is all on so I don't have a magnetic end so this is a little tricky okay so just get the hinge straight throw on another screw so like I said ear earlier in the video some doors might have a couple of these hinges at each joint so then just measure them out equally or however you decide to do it okay so we've got the center hinges in and uh now the next step is we want to get the uh side rails on so I'm going to completely do one side so you can see uh how that's done and then that way uh basically just do the same thing on the other side we'll do that off camera just to save a bit of bit of time here so um what you're going to have we'll just look at this door here quickly um you're going to have a a vertical rail which is going to be just straight like this okay it won't come with these brackets on there the brackets and the bolts and everything will be in the bag uh I've just kind of got them semi-attached on there to speed things up so we're going to basically install this this upper rail first and then uh from there we're going to install this bracket with a bearing and uh and rod holder and then that upper curved rail that you see there okay so we've got all our rollers in the door like so uh we've got our track you want to position the track so that you're going to you're going to see there's a flat side here and then kind of a slightly rounded side here you want the flat side towards the wall so all your brackets are going to get mounted on so that they will go that way as well this would be the wall here okay these are adjustable so I've just got everything loose right now so we can adjust it in and out this bracket's slightly different because it helps connect the uh upper rails and stuff you'll see when we get to that um so once you've got your Hardware just kind of loose on there what you want to do is uh get this all around your rollers okay so usually by going on a bit of an angle it'll just uh fit right around those rollers there and we've already got the door basically centered there so what what you want to do is these rollers have a a bit of a lip on them that prevents them from sliding too far in past this bracket so we just want to create just a just a fraction of space there you know basically an eighth of an inch just to give it a little bit of wiggle room in the track and that will uh position turn our track over to where we where we want it so in this case I want it right about here just take it out just a bit more so your Hardware again it'll come with all these the right bolts and and uh leg bolts and things to mount all this so I'm just going to insert this leg bolt it's a slotted hole in the bracket so I'm going to put the bolt right in the center so if we have to do some adjusting after I can go I can go one way or the other so um before I do that this I think we're just going to change camera angle my camera guys giving me the signal we just need to get our spacing here nice like I said about an eighth of an inch uh we had a bit of a technical difficulty with the camera so we've actually taken this off that's why you're going to see that this bolt has already been in there so uh place the leg bolt in the center of that slotted hole in the bracket fasten it in there I'm a little tight want to have a little bit of movement down there um and uh yeah anyways we don't have to be perfect just yet if we have to adjust it that's why the the hole there is slotted so as we move up the door we've got another bracket here and uh the instructions from your manufacturer will tell you exactly where to place those brackets on the actual rails so I won't get into that uh so we're up here again I want to make sure you can see these little um little flanges on that wheel that keep it from being able to slide in too far I just want to make sure they have a little bit of movement there a little bit of play and I'm going to Center that uh put this in the center of that slotted hole again okay so we've got that in in there these other bolts right now that attach the brackets to the rails are just loose we'll tighten those up as uh we move along here that'll be a little bit later along um I've gone ahead and uh attached excuse me attach this uh upper angle iron that has that bearing uh bracket on it right here this is where the rod would go through through this bearing I've already loosely attached it here on the top of this rail now uh what I want to do come over to this side I'm going to uh I want to get it on the wall straight in line with this uh rail that we've already done we're going to put the bolts in these slotted holes again okay throw a uh level on that angle iron just to be sure it's running straight Okay so we've got uh that mounted to the wall again this is just loose down here right now now we can actually set our our upper curved bracket that uh Returns the door up along the ceiling up on top of there and get it uh closely in position okay so I've just taken this uh hockey stick shaped piece of metal here this track and I'm just temporarily supporting it by some rope off the rafter close to Plum or sorry close to level for right now and then I just slid it on over top that roller there so I'm going to go back to this end at the door and put in one of these special bolts that they send for all this stuff and I'll maybe uh talk about those here in a second too so you just want to get uh this face and this face of these two pieces of track so they're lining up nicely here actually it's not real important rate at this step but eventually we need to get those right bang on I'm pretty close there right now I'm just going to show you a little bit about these bolts that the bolts that they send at least this manufacturer they have all these uh little uh grooves or nurs here and what those do is they suck into the metal on the pieces as you tighten the nut up and uh prevent it from turning and I'll just show you how that is on here so you can see I've got the bolt through the two pieces of metal but it's still sticking out a bit uh because of the I just got to get my drill in this other hand so you can see how it's sticking out there a little bit but as I tighten this knot it starts to suck it right into the metal and it just uh creates enough tension there that it doesn't Spin and then you just tighten it right up like that so most of the uh bolts you're seeing me use here on the actual tracks and this upper Hardware is all this type of type of B Okay so we've got that on uh we now need a cross support for up top here now this piece this piece here is going to uh basically join from this bracket back here over to one of these holes here so the first thing I do so I just get it Loosely hanging here so that uh it's easier to deal with and that you've seen that hole in that bracket there is slotted so I've got some play this way I need to get it to the point where it uh lines up with one of those two holes in this track so I'm kind of just uh feeling that out it looks like this one here is going to be the one these special bolts I told you about that flat head always goes inside of the tracks anytime they go through the track so that when it sucks in nothing's really in the way of the rollers okay so I just got that stuff all fingertight right now okay so typically I would get to that point on both sides right now and then pull the nails here in the door that we Ed to to uh kind of hold the panels up I don't have that side done just yet in fact I'm going to do that side off camera so uh I'm just going to pull the nails on this side just be careful not to Dent Dent your nice new door this will just give this end of the door come on a little bit of uh free play here so we can adjust it okay the other end still cinched with those bent over nails so we should be all right there okay so what uh what we've got now is now we've got the uh the door has a little bit of movement here and as we start from bottom top we don't want the door right tight against that wood out out here you can see you can actually see light coming in there right now we're going to put a rubber weather strip around that anyways so it's it's not necessar necessary that it has to be right tight there we just want it you know within reason you know an e inch or less um if you get it too tight it causes the door to bind against the wood and uh just uh makes it harder to operate so we're just going to start out I must have have this bracket tightened up already wasn't real tight but there's a bit of tension on it just going to start out at the very bottom we're going to slide this in till we're happy with the uh to the with the space there and then we can tighten that up okay just like that we're just going to work our way along at every bracket and uh just try to maintain that little bit of little bit of play there that's part of the reason that these hinges as I pointed out are kind of stepped out where the roller position is so as the door rolls up it it pulls the door away from the uh from the track a little bit more okay that one's that one's good there we'll go up to that upper bracket now on this one we've got adjust here and as well we have some adjustment here so this one we really can't move too much now right because we've we've already tightened in two points so this really isn't going to move so that's that's its home and go ahead and tighten it right up this curved piece this is where we want to get it lined up to the lower one so we just need to kind of slide everything back to we're nice there and we can can tighten that bolt up just like so all right so we've got that all on there now I'm going to go up I want to throw a level on this and uh get that nice and Plum before we tighten this bracket here otherwise we're going to be fighting against it so to do that we've actually got to add uh some blocking up there to one support the door um track so when the door's rolled up and the weight's up there it isn't doesn't come crashing down and then we're going to put a piece of angled bracket on there to keep that track from wanting to go all over the place just like uh I don't know if you can see from that angle uh I'll show you here in a minute but anyways I've got to cut a piece of block of wood basically what I do is I've already got a piece I've already got a piece right here okay to attach to up in the rafters so what I need now is a piece that of 2x4 that'll hang attached from there hang down actually on this side of the track in a position where one of these holes here uh can be bolted through to that piece of wood and that'll just take that weight so um I'm going to cut that piece of wood and get it in place and uh get the angle bracket on then I'll just come back and kind of explain it okay so I've come back up here I put my level on the upper part of this track and I just want to get it level so then I just adjusted this rope we're kind of already attached down there so that end can't really go up or down so I just adjusted my uh rope system here to uh get myself till the uh the bubble is uh level there now I'm going to go back over to that side so now that we have that we know that that's level we're good here we can actually tighten these bolts up and that'll help support like give some uh stability to this trap right here so I'll tighten this one and tighten this one I'm just going to put my safety glasses on in case any pieces of metal come down like so so that just gives that a little bit more strength there we've got I'm just double- checking I've got all these bolts tighten now so we've got this side all hang nicely okay so I think uh you know really it's just the same thing on the other side I'm going to do that side off camera and then when we come back uh I'll be able to start dealing with the uh the big Rod that goes across and the cables and the spring and all that kind of jazz So Okay so we've got the rail up on both sides of the frame here now and uh like I said I just kind of did that one side completely so that you could see how it was done and the other side is is a mirror image of it uh something else that uh a couple other things that I did off camera is uh up here you'll see we've got a wood block attached up into the ceiling and uh this block is then or the the track I mean Sor is screwed through to the block and that's just holding the weight of the door when the door's up we will be putting an angle brace on here as well afterwards so you'll see us do that just to keep the track from swaying side to side also I added a bolt and a couple nuts on the very end of the track back here and that just allows that if for some reason the door opened higher than it should it would uh hit onto those bolts and the roller wouldn't come out of the end of the track uh we've got all our all our hardware and everything tightened up from the floor up through all this bracing area uh the only thing I have left to do actually now that I look at it is I've got to tighten and adjust this upper bracket here so again I'm just pulling the door in or out to get leave a little bit of a space against the wood and then I'll tighten up that bolt that we put through that bracket on both sides so we'll get that done and then uh the point I'm at is putting up the rod that holds the uh holds the stupid wasp bothering me it holds the spring mechanism here and it also holds the two two outer uh drums cable drums so so I'm just going to uh tighten those brackets up up top and then we'll insert this uh shaft into place okay just a couple of points about uh the Assembly of this all this stuff because it obviously doesn't come all put together um for one thing your spring mechanism this bracket here with the bearing in it comes separately so you've just got to slide it all on the uh on the shaft and bolt put these two bolts through it not a big deal uh in your manual it will tell you which side of that bearing um the spring needs to be on otherwi if you get it on the wrong side it's it's just not going to function properly in this case with this manufacturer they say if your spring is got a red spray painted area on it which on this end it does it needs to be to the left hand side of that bracket so uh we've got that on the bar the right way and right now this just just completely slides on there it's it's not fixed in place yet uh these drums same thing this one has red spray paint on it here it's the left side the other one's black it's the right side they they even have an l and an r on them so that's not a big deal so those just simply slide on there don't tighten anything up yet at this point so I'm going to take this bracket up there and uh first off put the shaft through each bearing at each end so that it sits there and try to get about equal amount so that it's not going to fall out and then I've got A Center Line marked here of the opening I'm going to mount that bracket that the spring is attached to just off center here three or 4 in so that uh it's out of the way for any future door opener or anything like that um also uh I've I can determine the height of that bracket you don't want that pipe to be bent or have an arch in it so what I did is I uh I actually snapped a line you can see it right here there's a line here it's actually level equal distance off the floor right across so what I can do is I measure down from that line to center a hole on those brackets and uh same thing there I want that then I know where the center of that hole is so it's just a matter of a little bit of measuring and you know where you have to be so I'm just going to get that all and then uh you'll see me up there okay so just get it sitting in there just have a quick look or if you have somebody helping you they can have a look and tell you if it's close to equal you just don't want it so close to one end that it's going to fall out of there while you're working I can go just a little bit to my left okay so now I've got that shaft in the right spot I'm going to move this um bearing bracket over I've got my mark like I said up here that references the top of this bracket to get the center of my pipe the same here as it is on both ends and I'm just going to pre-drill a hole through my wooden blocks actually that something uh something isn't quite Computing there just going to recheck my calculations okay so I just had my uh reference reference Mark out of place there uh I could tell as soon as I started to lift on that that I was going to be too high I need to be right there so I'm going to pre-drill this let's get a couple points then I can move this out of the way pre-drill right through there get that shaft back in there and again these leg bolts all come with the with the whole system so uh I I'll just get my bracket mounted and then I'll double check that shaft cuz I might be a little bit out now that I moved it okay I've just got one in I'm just going to make sure my shaft isn't coming out at one end or the other I can go a little bit to the left again we're remember we're not attached nothing is attached to that shaft yet so it's it just moves easy Okay so we've got that bearing uh for the spring all solid there going to get rid of a couple drills and now what I need to do is uh take your two cables they attach down on the bottom corners of the door feed it up behind all the rollers and hook it onto uh each one of the drums get them all unentangled here so I might as well start over here so there's no rocket science to this just uh drop it back there and hook it onto that little uh knob on the end of that bottom bracket if you remember back when I installed those takes a little bit of monkeying around it's pretty tight back there there I got that on there now I'm just going to take that up feed it up behind all make sure I'm behind all the the rollers you don't want to be in don't want to be on this side don't want to be on this side of the rollers just make sure you're getting behind them okay just like that just take a look down there double check that Yen this cable needs to come up on the back side of this cable or this uh drum there's a little slot over on the outside edge that cable hooks right in there and then you just feed it around that drum there's kind of a Groove there that has to follow okay so then uh once you have it in the right Groove just put some good tension on that I think I have the wrench here my pocket just put some good tension on that cable so that it's tight there and uh there's two set screws here in the end we're going to tighten both of them those up so we got the cable tight we just going to tighten those both to the and we're pushed right out against that bearing bracket out there too okay so I just got those two there we're going to go do the same thing on the other side come on here we go and I think you can see it my ladder's right there same thing we just did anyways okay get my cable up around the back side find this slot get that cable in the right groove on there okay and I want to be sure that my uh other side is tight too now before I tighten this one actually it's probably going to fall off of there before I tighten this one what I want to do is take a lock a set of locking vice grips and I'm going to turn the shaft until that cable down there becomes really taunt again and I'm going to clamp the vice grips on onto this pipe and so that they're uh up against the header of the wall here or a stud or something so they can't the heck's going on here thought I had these all sized but I didn't that's probably going to be good okay so again I'm twisting on the shaft getting that cable as taunt as I can and then I want to get those pliers on there so it's holding that shaft from turning and keeping that cable from coming loose okay I've got this wrapped around this side now I want to just pull it tight get the tension up out of it and tighten these two the idea is you want equal amount of pressure on both of those cables so the door pulls up evenly okay so we got those we got the tension on the cable now it's time to the uh for the most uh dangerous part of the whole installation Okay so we've got our two drums keeping our shaft from sliding in or out we've got our Center bearing attached and uh now we're ready to wind the spring now the thing with this spring is it can it can change from manufacturer to manufacturer and it can change depending on which side of the bearing you have it on so the main thing to remember is when you're winding it you want the spring to be get wound in a way that it'll be getting longer and smaller around in distance then you know you're turning it the right way um some something else you could look at if you look here you can see the end of the spring so this spring is wrapped basically as if it was wrapped around that pipe this direction which would be counterclockwise and I'm looking here at the end of the spring where they cut it off whichever way that's pointing I want to turn this the spring forward so in this case I want to turn it up if the end of this was facing down then I'd be turning the spring down okay uh this is as I mentioned before this is the most dangerous thing about this whole installing this door because there's so much tension on these Springs by the time you start getting them even a quarter of the way round uh wound you want to be very sure that uh that you have everything solid you got a good grip on everything what you need is a couple pieces of bar uh I use rebar that fit into these holes fairly fairly snugly actually sorry I've got the end ground just a bit so it fits in better um and you need two of them because what you're going to do is insert whatever you're using in here push it up get the next one in and you're just going to work your way around like that now right now it's really easy once we get like I said a quarter of the way through there's a lot of pressure on there and you don't want one of these to slip out don't use a screwdriver or any kind of makeshift small item uh like I said I'm using 10m rebar I had to slightly grind the end so it fits in there better but you want to use something that's pretty uh you know pretty substantial as far as uh it's going to not bend on you and I don't know what these are maybe 16 20 in long you don't want them much shorter than this or you don't have the leverage either now in your instruction manual it will tell you how many uh turns revolutions you need to turn that spring to wind it properly in this case for this size of door and with this spring package and everything we've got to go eight and 1 half full revolutions so uh it takes a little bit of time once you get it to that point where you've got your full revolutions then you need to have your wrench handy because there's two of these set screws on here again that need to be tightened up okay so keep all this stuff right close by here handy because you don't want to once you get this sprung you don't want to have to unwind it manually to go and get one of these okay so I like to keep my Ranch rate up here okay so I like to keep my body and Limbs and everything right out of the way of these as much as I can this is like I said this is the most dangerous part if you're not comfortable at all with what you see me doing here and don't think you can do it then you should be calling a pro to to come and do this job um this this can definitely injure you okay so I'm going to start by uh basically usually what I do is I make sure those are loose for one thing and I just kind of get the spring sitting there nicely so it I kind of you know it it doesn't have really tension on it but it isn't loose and also at this point I want to take a reference point to you know where my where my full Revolution is going to be so at this point the way this Spring's sitting I've got both my my locking uh bolts here straight up so that's going to be what I'm going to call my zero position so once I turn them around and get them back to there that's one revolution so you need a reference so you can kind of keep track cuz like I said once you start doing this you don't want to be stopping to mess with anything else so I'm going to go ahead and start and uh just get this just get this wound right around I've never seen it happen but I would hate for one of these Springs to break so I'm going to put my safety glasses on as well I've seen them break once they're older just from over from being used but not when winding it okay so there's two revolutions right now there's three there's already a fairly good amount of pressure on there you can see if I wanted to let go that would just take right off there's four even my cameraman's counting keeping track for me cuz with all my blabbering here I might lose track of where I'm at great camera man there's five that's six right there and again just make sure you're pushing these these uh dowels or whatever you're using to do this right into the hole so you're you're getting good good amount of that in there you don't want it to slip out so there's six right cameraman seven see I lost track with all my talking I knew I would so I'm coming around for my eighth full Revolution which is right there well almost right there that's eight I needed 8 and 1/2 so I need those to be pointing down so we're coming around got lots of tension on that right now I'm going to get rid of one bar I've got that one in there seated in there really firmly now because of the position of it for safety sake I'm going to put my shoulder right under that bar it can't I can't slip out of my hand or anything I'm going to tighten these up now basically what they recommend is once you can feel that this uh bolt set Bolt bolt set screw has made contact with the shaft you want one full Revolution after that to ensure that it's in there enough okay so now I've got that in there I still haven't really taken a hand my hand off of that bar I usually put one put my second one back in when I'm going to release it just to be sure I've got kind of a little bit extra backup there in case in case something malfunctions Okay so we've got that all set we've got those tight we hopefully won't have to touch it again now I've got to go down I've got to remove those locking pliers that we had on there and then uh with any luck at all I should be able to uh go down and actually lift this door by hand so now it should lift fairly easily uh We've pulled make sure you pull all your bent over Nails out uh you don't want any of them in the way protruding where the door will get caught on that we should be able to lift the door without really much effort at all there should be some effort but not not a whole lot the spring is there to assist in the lift even if you're using a a door opener okay so that opens up pretty nicely I thought I heard something kind of catch a little bit when I first lifted it over over on this one side oh yes there we go right down there I've got one of those nuts that I must not have tightened completely uh what size was that yeah it's this size so I'm going to just tighten that up it's just sticking out into the track so the roller was catching on it right there actually you know when I did the second side I guess I didn't tighten those up those upper ones I got that's all good somehow I missed that one there so let's see we shouldn't hear anything catching on anything now again yes just operates really nice and smoothly okay so now we've got the door open uh hopefully that sunlight isn't totally blinding you in the picture right now um what I need to do now is just kind of look here I'm going to grab my tape if I just have a look right up here at the uh roller you can see how that uh door wants to keep moving a little bit let me just push it all the way up I can hardly reach it you can see how the roller shaft is extending out of this bracket oh I don't know maybe 38 of an inch okay so uh we just need to uh put an angle bracket on here I'll show you how to do that goes across here and that'll just keep the track from moving in and out cuz you don't want that roller to come out I'm just looking at this side to see what we got here this side it's not quite as much I generally like to see around a quarter of an inch to half an inch of play in there at the very uh end of these tracks up at the top that way your door isn't isn't uh binding when you open it right up so I'm just going to get get some ladders set up and I'll put the braces on up there okay so like I said we're going to put an angled brace on there your uh garage door will come with a few pieces of this uh angle iron that's punched full holes and of course the the uh leg bolts we've been using so I'm going to Simply attach this through this wooden bracket that I dropped down and up there you could they send you enough that you could actually do these verticals with this metal as well I just prefer using the wood uh for this and then the metal for this one so I'm going to get uh hopefully organized here get this in place you may have to cut your this metal shorter or whatever to work for your situation kind of doing this really awkwardly I'm going to put this one in so these are just giving some rigidity to this piece so that your track stays uh in line where you're wanting it to I'll throw another bolt up here now if you if you had a finished sealing already say it's drywalled or ply wooded or whatever you may actually have to uh you know basically use three of these so you'd have one mounted across the ceiling up against your finished ceiling that's actually attached directly into the rafters so you know you have to find your Rafters and make sure that you can get a bolt into each one so that would be horizontally right against the ceiling then you would drop another one down from it to attach here to hold the weight and then a third one across on the on the angle to uh pick that all up again you could do that with wood some of those pieces could be you could be wood too so uh but if you have a finished seiling in this case obviously we don't but if you do that's what you need to do just be sure it's attached not just through the drywall or plywood it's got to be into some solid wood so so I'm going to do the same thing on the other side okay I almost forgot about the weather stripping on the bottom of the door and the and the outside too uh we've just opened the door up I just clamped these pliers on here to keep the door from wanting to go all the way up we're going to put the bottom weather strip on and it'll it comes with the door you can get Replacements of these as well so uh this particular one just is a big roll uh you basically pinch it in half you can see it's kind of got a t t Edge on on both top edges there and they slide into this plastic Channel that's already on the bottom of the door so it's just a matter getting it in there and started like so kind of keeping it pinched it goes on really good for the first couple feet just like that with one person uh after that you kind of need a second person to kind of keep guiding it in here at this end while the other one pulls it that way so so that's really all there is to that actually it looks like uh this track usually it's already screwed to the bottom of the door but this plastic track must not be so I'll just have to uh pull this back out and I'll put about four different screws in just small little uh like number six um Flathead screws they'll go up in one of these tracks into the door just to keep this from sliding around usually it's attached but it wasn't in this case okay so we covered that we're just going to pop right outside to the door that's already complete and I'll just go over the uh weather stripping for you so you can see how it fits okay so our weather strip is right here it's got a rubber lip on it and then this piece of metal here uh they're going to come in uh a little bit oversized length so you're going to have to cut it so what I do is I run my upper one I cut it the same size as the opening maybe an eighth of an inch less and I I'll fasten it on you just want to push it up against the door so the rubber actually folds up and around kind of a little bit against the door this way it gets a bit of a water and snow seal there um so I put the upper one on and then I have to kind of depending on your weather strip these can be all different so I don't want to get too far into detail because yours could be totally different but I had to not make a notch in this rib of the side ones so it fits up nice my rubber overlaps the other one so you get a nice fit in the corner same thing cut it basically to height and screw it on you can screw it nail it whatever I like to use screws but you can see I got a nice fit down to the bottom and everything so uh not really rocket science and like I said I don't want to go into too much detail because yours could be totally different but whatever you've got there it should look similar to this and just uh make it work so okay so uh we've got the door completed uh one thing I didn't I forgot one more thing uh on the outside of the panels there usually be some kind of uh protective plastic film over it make sure you take that off off uh once that film sits in the hot sun for a few days it just kind of bakes on there and it's darn near impossible to get off and it looks like looks terrible let's just put it that way so make sure you pull that film off um we've got it all complete we've got it operating really nice and smoothly we've got the weather strip on the bottom I'm just going to have to do the outside of this one and uh pretty happy with how it turned out for the average person that's never done this before expect that it's going to take you probably at least four to 5 hours by yourself if you have some help it might speed you up definitely a little bit uh as you do a couple you'll get a little quicker yet but it's going to take you half the day for sure plan on that uh if it's a bigger door you're definitely going to want some help if it's higher once you start getting much over you know 10 ft High you might as well hire it out because uh it just gets a little precarious using scaffold or ladders all the time so but for the average residential door uh it's not that big of a deal as you've seen other than that spring it's the most dangerous thing you're going to deal with so so uh anyways uh you've been watching our uh how-to videos I hope um on our YouTube channel here if you haven't please subscribe just click subscribe there's no cost there's no nothing just do that you'll get notified then that way every time we post a video uh you can once you're on our Channel like you are here you can go and view all our videos that we have up and uh probably find out some inform information that uh might help you on some of your DIY type projects so other than that we've also got the uh uh website as well house-improvements.com there you'll find lots of different articles and information as well uh but the most important thing there is our Forum um if you have any questions about what you seen here or anything else in general please go to The Forum and ask your question um instead of posting it in the comments here I'll be more sure to get back to you with a response if it's in the Forum so um we didn't do any extra locks or anything on this I'm just going to mention that if you aren't doing an opener on here then you're going to want to buy a locking hardware and put it on we're going to be doing an opener check out our video for that thanks again for watching\n"