[Spridgets] Garage door help no LBC

Wm. Severin Thompson wsthompson at thicko.com
Sun Jan 27 06:23:16 MST 2008


One more thing... garage door isntallers are missing more fingers than your
average 7th grade shop teacher.,

-----Original Message-----
From: spridgets-bounces+wsthompson=thicko.com at autox.team.net
[mailto:spridgets-bounces+wsthompson=thicko.com at autox.team.net] On Behalf Of
Frank Clarici
Sent: Saturday, January 26, 2008 10:21 PM
To: Spridgets
Subject: [Spridgets] Garage door help no LBC

Guys

Anybody know anything about overhead garage doors with regular springs?
The scenario....
My son bought a lift for his garage (cheap) we installed it a few months 
ago and it works fine but....
He had an 8' ceiling in his garage, he knew a good carpenter ;) and I 
cut out the ceiling, installed appropriate collar ties and headers, 
rewired it, added lighting, rerouted water pipes and heating ducts, 
insulated the new and re-sheetrocked the roof and walls.
Now he has a 13' ceiling in the lift area. Cool!
But the original (relatively) new overhead door was smack in the middle 
of where the new ceiling is. So I thought we could just do some 
reworking of the tracks and make the door roll up the wall and along the 
rake of the roof line.
Well it goes up on our cut/rewelded tracks but we are having a hell of a 
time making the springs work.
It is a 7' high door, the ceiling was 8', now the door has to go up to 
the 9' mark where the roof meets the wall then along the ceiling which 
is a 6/12 pitch or 27 degree angle.
The springs now hit the rollers at the wall, the rollers have been moved 
to the wall/roof line.
I mean I spent all day fabricating brackets and tracks today only to run 
into this spring problem.
I think I can put in more angle iron and move the springs farther up the 
ceiling, but then the cables would need to be twice as long. I really 
don't want to put more holes in the fresh painted new sheetrock if this 
is not going to work.
A torsion spring above the door is out of the question, no room as the 
door now moves up the wall and along the cathedral ceiling.
No room for a sideways rolling door, barn doors opening out would work 
but this overhead is fairly new and with all this garage renovations, 
he's broke. I have financed more than my share on HIS garage for the 
rights to use the lift. In fact, I spent more than he did on renovations 
to the garage then he spent on the lift.
So any garage door guys on this list?
Engineers, Ron.
-- 
Frank Clarici
Toms River, NJ


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