GARAGE DOOR BRACKET REPAIR

Common Garage Door Bracket Problems

The garage door bracket is the piece that holds the garage door arm to the door. The other end of the arm is connected to the pulley in a traditional trolley garage door opener system. When the garage door opens, the arm is what pulls the door up off the ground. Generally speaking, garage doors are very heavy. When the arm starts to pull up on the door, there is a lot of force being exerted on the bracket itself. Over time this can cause the screws to loosen, and when the screws loosen you run the risk of the entire bracket pulling away from the door.



One of the reasons garage door brackets pull away from the door so frequently is that most of them are not properly reinforced. Smart Garage Door Service offers installation services for garage door bracket reinforcement plates. The plates spread the force required to the open the door across a bigger section of the door so that your garage door bracket isn’t pulling the entire weight of the door. Most manufacturers do not install these plates, but the doors have a warning label saying it should be reinforced.