Find stock and semicustom doors for standard openings at home centers window and door retailers and garage door distributors.
Garage door anatomy.
Doors for much bigger openings and nonsectional doors are custom built so have a pro do the measuring.
Sectional doors open vertically and do not swing outside the frame making them ideal for tight spaces.
A sectional garage door is a door that is made up of panels that separate when the door opens and closes overhead.
A solid steel handle of a tool that helps carry over the torsion springs lifting force to the cable drums and lifting cables.
Most stock sectional doors cover openings 7 to 8 feet high and 9 to 16 feet wide.
There s more to garage door anatomy than the panel though this article wouldn t exist otherwise.
Keeps the garage door balanced and stable as it opens and closes.
The motor within this component is what drives the garage door.
A single panel door is generally more traditional.
Your garage door panel is broken into sections.
Supports the top section of a garage door.
Anatomy of a tilt garage door.
The sections are where the garage door bends as it opens.
Those garage doors tilt open rather then move upwards.
The job of the motor is not to lift the door but to set the process of lifting in motion.
In the image above this is the powered mechanism secured to the ceiling.
These are what hold your garage door together.
Because they swing open single panel doors need space to operate.