Mounting Garage Door Opener Off Center

Most doors are reinforced for the operator to mount in the center.

Mounting garage door opener off center.

If your door has extension springs the opener must be installed in the center of the door. Go ahead and mount it off center and save yourself a headache. You can be off center with the opener provided the door has a torsion spring which it sounds like yours does if your door was extension spring the kind when the spring stretch along the horizontal track then it wouldn t work properly. As you said run perforated angle iron from the center stile to the next stile over.

Combined with our innovative product design and manufacturing superiority our distributors are a proud part of the family sharing. If the door is properly balanced you should be able to locate the operator anywhere but always perpendicular to the door. That means the garage door opener won t work if it is placed in the center of the door. Set it securely on top of a stepladder so it s conveniently close to the ceiling.

Overhead door products automatically include the unequaled expertise of overhead door distributors. The exact location depends on the type of door. You may need to duplicate this for an off center mount. Offset garage door opener guests.

Use one piece as near to the top as you can which would be. The garage door opener mounting bracket also called the header bracket secures the carriage tube to the wall above the door. The opener can be installed within 4 feet to the left or right of the door center if there is a torsion spring or center bearing plate in the way of the header bracket or door bracket area. Overhead door garage doors and garage door openers deliver superior performance style and reliability.

Can an opener be offset from the center maybe a couple of feet. Lift the power unit.