Garage Door Not Level With Floor

It breaks up really easily.

Garage door not level with floor.

A more severe uneven floor can be up to a foot in some places where homes are built on a hill and require a custom fit bottom section that is up to 21 inches difference. We have products in stock to close a gap up to about 2 inches on either side of the door and still keep your door plumb level and balanced. Keep the door open a few feet off the ground as this takes the pressure off the door springs. If your garage floor is uneven it can be difficult to obtain a good door bottom seal.

An un even floor in your garage it is very common. The concrete settled after the initial installation and as the concrete began to settle the door began to sag thus creating a gap. So if you re experiencing and uneven floor call the experts and we ll get you fixed up straight away. In most cases its due to foundation movement tree root seasonal wether patterns and can be a little as a 1 8 inch difference on either side of the bottom garage door.

Your overhead door team. These doors are generally more than 20 years old. But you can make an effective self adjusting door sweep from inexpensive preformed slit foam pipe insulation. And then you can properly level it properly reinforce it and then repour it and be done.

Put a ladder under the door to make sure it won t close accidentally while you re working on it. The floor in my garage is not leveled. In nearly 90 of these instances a wood garage door was removed. That might seem extreme but you may be surprised that with the right tool like a jackhammer you can have your entire floor torn out in a couple of hours.