You can release the red latch by the motor and raise it manually. Although it is very heavy.
I'm trying to remember who you were making fun of for posting some silly crap in the "Help Forum". It was Pif wasn't it? You not asking for help or telling how the repairman fixed your door. This belongs in the lounge where you can follow up on getting raped by a blue collar repairman on a Sunday morning .
Need someone to laugh at about garage doors? Look this way....
In front of the kids, I stopped the garage door when my wife raised it to pull in. So, from 3' up and stopped, she sends it down then tries to raise it again. Being the cool guy I am, I stopped it again. This time, however, it was about 1' from being fully raised. This is low enough to see, and recognize that you won't fit, unless you are my wife. She proceeds to drive in, scraping the roof rack of the van against the bottom of the door. After bending/breaking the door and asking me what that loud noise was, I quietly shake my head and wonder how much this is going to cost me.
2 weeks later, waiting for companies to return my call, I'm setting aside paycheck dollars for paying for my mistake. I'm a jackass.
Spring repair is usally $125 each. Hopefully he used McButter's Butt Goo.
How old was the door?
Isn't that like two weeks pay for you?
The door is probably 20 years old. I have no idea how old the springs were. I don't recall if they had ever been changed.
The garage door industry gives an average life expectancy of about 10,000 actions or 7 years (approximately) for wire torsion springs. If you got 20 years out of the hardware, you were operating on borrowed time.
We are going to tell funny garage door stories? Fine, I'll tell mine. There is a reason I know the doors are very heavy when you unload them from the springs. I had the cable get off track on the pulley wheel in one of the corners. I was able to manually raise it up and get it latched at the motor. I unhook the cable and get it untwisted. But now I need to lower the door. I unlatch it from the motor with the red handle and it came crashing down with an incredible speed and force. It blew out all the windows and it crushed a little by its own weight. There was no saving that door. Thank goodness I moved the vehicles out of the garage first. I still shake my head about that fuk up.
We are going to tell funny garage door stories? Fine, I'll tell mine. There is a reason I know the doors are very heavy when you unload them from the springs. I had the cable get off track on the pulley wheel in one of the corners. I was able to manually raise it up and get it latched at the motor. I unhook the cable and get it untwisted. But now I need to lower the door. I unlatch it from the motor with the red handle and it came crashing down with an incredible speed and force. It blew out all the windows and it crushed a little by its own weight. There was no saving that door. Thank goodness I moved the vehicles out of the garage first. I still shake my head about that fuk up.