Tools for Electrical Garage Door Installation

Series Summary

Electric garage doors allow us to park our cars in a covered and protected place without having to manually open any doors except the car door to step out and the house door to go inside. This amazing convenience saves countless discs in the back from becoming herniated and keeps us from having to step out into the rain, snow, or heat.

Electrical garage doors can be installed with a minimal amount of prior knowledge on your part and a maximum amount of knowledge in the help of our expert in mechanical systems, who holds a Masters Degree in Mechanical engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.

In this free online video series learn how to install electric garage doors from licensed engineer and licensed home inspector Drew Finn as he demonstrates electrical garage door installation including: mounting the door bracket, attaching the rail to the head, installing the drive belt, mounting the wall bracket, attaching the rail to the wall, attaching the head to the ceiling, attaching the door to the rail, installing the electric eye, wiring the head, installing the wall switch, testing the door travel and the electric eye, and testing the reversal force of the door.

Video Transcript

" Hi I'm Drew Finn here for expertvillage.com we are going to show you how to install garage door opener today this is being filmed by Black Dog Video you could visit us at blackdogvideo.biz. Here are the tools that we are going to need the operate size wrenches, a couple of size sockets, a power screwdriver that is optional you could do it by hand, a Philip screwdriver, a regular flat screwdriver, a pair of pliers, a hammer, a power drill, some needle nose pliers, some wire strippers, a pencil, we need a level and the ladder very critical. So with all that we would be prepare to put together the garage door opener install it. Now in all of our manuals they tell what tools you are going to need. Sometimes they also want you to have hacksaw cause you have to cut one of the metal brackets off but we did need one in this installation so I did not include one."