Garage Door Struts How Many

The top panel is the weakest point.

Garage door struts how many. This strut when across the top section helps to support the door during opening and closing using a electric garage door opener. Three inches are also found on commercial garage doors which are over 16ft wide. Five star doors adds an additional strut to all our garage door installs. If you do not reinforce the door it will damage the top section in a short period of time.

Any garage door that has an opener is required to have a strut on the top panel. Garage door struts stiffen sections of the door to prevent them from bending or breaking. A 16 wood door should have 3 or more struts but insulated steel doors should have at least two. For 16ft wide doors the case is different.

The more struts you have on the garage door the stronger it will be. A 16 wood door requires at least three struts but steel doors often need only one. Many doors come standard with a strut across the top panel of the garage door. Doors over 10 feet wide usually have at least one strut across the top of the top section.

Anything above 14ft must have at least one strut. If your 16ft garage door is made of wood you need at least three garage door struts for optimum protection and support. On double wide doors made of 25 or 26 gauge steel we recommend three struts one across the tops of the bottom and top sections and one in the middle of the door centered between the other two struts. Doors over 10 feet wide usually have at least one strut across the top panel.

When we add one or more struts to your door we factor in the additional weight.