Anatomy Of A Garage Door Frame

The anatomy of a garage door common repair symptoms and everyone a homeowner needs to know about garage repair details written by big mike parks published.

Anatomy of a garage door frame.

Door glass is usually made from individual pieces of clear beveled and or textured glass. Door glass is inserted into the door to add character to a door panel as well as provide extra natural light. Decorative door glass comes in many different. The door jamb is one of the most visible door pieces so much so that people sometimes confuse it with the frame itself.

Wood steel fibreglass or vinyl. A common place for wood rot to be found is on the lower part of a garage door trim jamb this repair seems intimidating but it is actually a very easy repair. The fillet a 1x6 and the cap molding. We tend to take our garage doors for granted.

Introduction thermal perfomance. Supports the top section of a garage door. The horizontal track of your garage door opener is the path your carriage moves along in order to open your garage door. However behind the jamb and inside the wall the structural hidden part of the door frame is an important part of the door anatomy.

Model 305i in insulated steel with composite overlay trim. The two vertical frames are called side jambs and the horizontal frame is referred to as the head jamb. A sectional door the most common variety rolls up and down on steel tracks. Introduction energy efficient technologies.

Anatomy of a tilt garage door. 19 september 2016 a modern garage door is a complex piece of machinery that is called upon to work perfectly day after day year after year. The frame sometimes called a jamb is made up of three separate pieces and surrounds the door creating a frame in which the door can sit. An optional glass panel that rests above the door frame.

Now we re getting into an uncharted area of garage door anatomy. Frames are made up of composite material solid wood or veneered wood. Anatomy of a garage door illustration by jason lee. A solid steel handle of a tool that helps carry over the torsion springs lifting force to the cable drums and lifting cables.

It supports the jamb as well as the part of the building that s over the door. Door glass inserts what we know best. Anatomy of an exterior door. Counterbalances door s weight so that it can be lifted easily.

It s made up of three parts. The final step for both the door and the window trim is building and installing the head casing assembly. Keeps the garage door balanced and stable as it opens and closes. The chain of your garage door opener is what does most of the lifting.

Traditionally this cap molding was solid but since a solid molding this large is hard to come by we substituted 2 1 4 in.