Garage Door Not Level With Floor

An un even floor in your garage it is very common.

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. The concrete settled after the initial installation and as the concrete began to settle the door began to sag thus creating a gap. 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. The floor in my garage is not leveled.

Can it damage my garage door. So if you re experiencing and uneven floor call the experts and we ll get you fixed up straight away. 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. 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.

Have us inspect the side and top seal while we re there. And then you can properly level it properly reinforce it and then repour it and be done. If your garage floor is uneven it can be difficult to obtain a good door bottom seal. In nearly 90 of these instances a wood garage door was removed.

But you can make an effective self adjusting door sweep from inexpensive preformed slit foam pipe insulation. The claim is always that their old garage door did not have a gap. Put a ladder under the door to make sure it won t close accidentally while you re working on it. Keep the door open a few feet off the ground as this takes the pressure off the door springs.