They allow your garage door to travel up or down the vertical track easily when it s opening or closing.
Garage door parts terminology.
Garage door opener garage door openers consist of all the hardware that combines to open and close a garage door.
Galvanizing galvanizing is the process of coating steel to prevent rusting.
Vertical track the track your door is secured in will allow your door to slide up and down or left and right inside this track via tiny wheels or rollers that are mounted to the garage door itself.
Springs are under extreme tension.
There are many kinds of panels.
Panels this basically refers to the main garage door itself or smaller sections if it is comprised of individual pieces or panels.
A garage door with a flush design is flat with no indentations or grooves.
An extension spring is generally mounted above horizontal tracks extends from front of door opening to the back hang and provides lifting power by stretching.
These are known as rollers.
Long panels and short panels have rectangular patterns along the garage door.
All steel garage doors are galvanized.
Bracket also called jamb brackets used to attach the garage door vertical tracks to the framing on either side of the garage door opening.
Flush panels have no design on them and give your home a clean crisp look.
They re attached to the side of your garage door and inserted into the vertical track.
The garage door parts you see from the outside are the panels.