Garage Door Wind Post

As the largest point of entry your garage door offers the largest opportunity for high pressure havoc.

Garage door wind post. Positive pressure occurs when the wind is blowing against your door and negative pressure is when the wind acts in such a way as to pull or suck your door outwards. But they add peace of mind that your garage is secure and you re not going to have damage to your personal property. For a comprehensive review of raynor wind load tested and approved garage doors choose from the following options. When high winds hit a reinforced garage door is one of your home s most important safeguards against nature s fury.

While these wind load posts are rated for 120 mile an hour winds they bring your door up to code. Attach the header lock bracket to the header using the 4 5 16 x 1 5 8 lag screws provided as shown in figure 1. The removable windload post is designed to be installed on any sectional garage door at the center hinge locations. They don t make yours a wind load door.

Wind load post installation instructions step 1. Approved garage doors are available in a wide variety of designs and styles. New garage doors have adequate support structures designed into the door which can resist both positive and negative pressures created by a hurricane or other wind related events. The header lock bracket should be in line with the intermediate hinges where the post is to be installed and located such that the bottom of the bracket is approximately 2 1 2.

All raynor residential steel garage doors come with a wind load option except for aspen ap200lv luxevue because of its large windows. Use the same installation procedure for one two or three post assemblies. Using a wind load post on your garage door. Before you put the post in you should disconnect the arm from the operator to the door and also unplug the operator.