In this video we show you an easy way to weigh a garage door without unwinding the torsion spring or loosening the extension springs.
Wood garage doors weight.
Regardless of the material with which your garage door was made its thickness its size single or double or if it has windows it weighs at least 130 pounds single door and it can go up to 350 pounds or more double door with windows.
Enter full inches only do not enter fractions or decimals.
The wood used in the development of these overhead garage doors was choice alaskan cedar for it s long lasting durability and resistance to moisture and sitka spruce for the structural internal framing for its light weight to strength ratio and resistance to failure.
If more then one door is being considered enter the number of mulitple doors.
However a single garage door at eight to nine feet wide and seven to eight feet high is a common measurement for many homes.
Door weight calculator input your data into the box below and the weight of a single door.
Door itself is 75 sq ft of 5 8 roughtex plywood on a framework of 26 board feet 3838 cubic inches of 2x3 and 2x4s which i assume are douglas fir.
A standard 25 steel gauge 8 x 7 residential garage door from unique raynor amarr haas.
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The 450 model garage door is constructed of smooth hardboard panels with thin rails stiles overlaid.
There is no standard garage door size.
Taking an average weight of 5 8 plywood at 2 pounds sq ft and 3 pounds per board foot of douglas fir i get 75 x 2 26 x 3 for about 230 pounds for the door.
Therefore you need a pair of 210 pound springs even though your total door weight is 210 pounds.
Contemporary doors all glass double door can weigh over 400 pounds.
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Enter door height in inches.
It should be noted that since the cable loops around a pulley the lifting force of a 210 pound spring is only 105 pounds as seen by the garage door.