Garage Door Cable Came Off

Follow me in this video on how to fix a cable off a garage door.

Garage door cable came off.

Both cables came off of my garage door. If the garage door cable came off don t try to follow diy steps in fixing it. However if you can get your vehicles out of the garage you can postpone the repair to get normal weekday repair rates. The cables and springs on a door work together and there s a great deal of tension on the lines.

Even the slightest mistake could lead to accidents like the garage door coming loose and falling on someone s head. Sometimes the cables become wound around themselves and can get caught. When a cable slips off a drum the garage door won t work. Homeowners may be alerted to this problem by excessive noise and rattling from the cable pulley system when opening according to the frank s garage door repair website.

Even if the problem looks simple you should hire professionals to do the job for you. Getting emergency evening or weekend service from a garage door professional can easily cost 400. Cables may come off the pulley system because of uneven operation on the two sides of the door opener system. It has the tension bar in the middle.

It is in the up position after i rewind the cables and connect them to the bottom of the door i am unclear what to do next. Most of the time your able to do i. This can be an easy fix.