Garage Door AND Opener Installation! Part 1

Part 1 features the installation of an 8x7 Clopay Garage Door with extension springs bought from home depot.

[@martinkeli8965]

I should say this is the best video the cables gave us headache today..

[@dapperdudesgarage]

I hope it helped you in some way. If it did, I’m glad, lol. Thanks for commenting

[@roccozarcone4393]

Great video my brother. Excellent, you show it at all really good. Keep up the good work.😊

[@dapperdudesgarage]

Thank you, I will

[@gregbgregb8487]

Good video I'm just getting started took my idea test last Friday

[@dapperdudesgarage]

Thank you sir. Good luck hope all goes well for you. Another video will be posted soon

[@Heyhoe386]

Dude you're awesome. Please make more garage door videos of maybe some problems we might come across when doing these garage door installs? 🙏 also don't give up on your channel!

[@dapperdudesgarage]

Hey brother I apologize for the delayed comments. I just got to reviewing all of my comments and realized I never hit send to reply back to you. Better late than never I guess. But thank you for the comments and I do plan on keeping the comments coming to help anyone with Garage door needs or issues and give tips on what I know and things I have learned throughout the past several years in the industry. I appreciate the feedback. Thanks again.

[@zulian420]

always interesting to see how other guys do it. hangin horizontals from back to front is wild lol but to each his own. and i can't say i always put a top strut on (because my company never orders them) but on a soda can door like that with an opener, i'd at least put angle at the top if i didn't have a strut. manual doors you can get away without. anyway, well done 🤟

[@dapperdudesgarage]

I appreciate the feedback… even if it’s somewhat critical, yet constructive. Truly, I don’t usually hang the horizontal tracks from back to front but I hurt my shoulder and it hurts so bad when i set the radius on my shoulder while attaching it to the flag bracket like normal. So, for support I’ve been doing it back first. Hurt or not I still gotta get the job done and bring the content. So that’s the story I’m sticking to. lol

[@dapperdudesgarage]

@@DudeEggs I know right! Angle Iron for a strut? Crazy

[@jeremywilliams4493]

The old garage has my favorite locks

[@dapperdudesgarage]

Yeah most people actually take them off though. Thank you for the comment!

[@jeremywilliams4493]

I mean they are easy to use

[@dapperdudesgarage]

@@jeremywilliams4493 they are for sure. But generally speaking if you have a garage door opener that’s actually working you don’t need the lock because the opener will lock it closed. That second video of the opener installation will post in a few days. Pretty cool insight in that one

[@jeremywilliams4493]

@@dapperdudesgarage the new door should have a strut on the top panel

[@dapperdudesgarage]

16 foot doors do. If it were a door he purchased from us I would have put one on but it’s common for these small doors to not come with one. Especially when these people buy them from Home Depot on their own!

[@kaywillis5258]

What garage door brand do you recommend for your customers

[@henryh2159]

It was a fascinating video, I learned a lot of things from you, planning to replace my old wooden garage door with this ( from Home Depot). One question: I did not see the purpose of the safety cable, could you explain it to me. Thanks.

[@dapperdudesgarage]

Safety cables are a MUST on those extension shutting systems. The purpose is because when they break they literally sling shot and are very dangerous, however, when running a safety cable, once the spring breaks it simply stays on the cable line and doesn’t fly off and damage anything or injure anyone.

[@henryh2159]

@@dapperdudesgarage Thank you very much for your reply. I have 2 more questions: If I buy an 8x7 garage door from Clopay, will the panel be 8 feet wide? my old wooden panel is 8 feet wide so I want to make sure it will fit. Another question: Should I buy the insulated or non-insulated door? someone said the non-insulated is not sturdy, what do you think? Thank you again.

[@dapperdudesgarage]

@@henryh2159 Yes, if you have an 8x7 door currently then an 8x7 is what you need to buy and it should fit no problem. As far as insulation it dont necessarily come down to sturdy, it boils down to R-value pertaining to how hot or cool the insulation will keep your garage. Keep in mind what the people call sturdy pertaining to insulation is also extra weight on the door! Either way, either door will last LITERALLY a lifetime if taken care of and managed properly. The hardware such as spring will break down, but the panels themselves should last a lifetime. Hope that helps

[@sphchurch]

have a unique situation, I know everyone’s is unique. But really this one is. The front of my garage sticks out 2 feet from the house. On top of that inside the garage there is a support from the house that goes through the garage that will not allow the door lifting chain rail puller to go all the way to the front above the door. Any ideas. Would like to try and do this myself. I believe would need a bar about 2 feet long from the door to the motor drive chain rail. Any ideas?

[@dapperdudesgarage]

Send me some pics to my business phone, the 210-580-3054

[@aroundtowndoors]

💯

[@dapperdudesgarage]

yes sir

[@jonathanholmes5708]

$750 for 2 doors & a motor!? Several companies where I am would charge that just for replacing a motor.

[@JamesDavis-dn3wo]

You installed the top brackets all the way at the top but the instructions say to install 3 and 1/4" down from the top. I think this is to give you room for a top support bracket if needed.

[@dapperdudesgarage]

You could be right, but your looking WAY too much into it. Instructions in some regards are not an absolute, rather, more of a dummy guide! Thanks for the comment

[@JamesDavis-dn3wo]

@@dapperdudesgarage I'm installing a garage door now and this dummy needs the instructions but they aren't that great.

[@JamesDavis-dn3wo]

@@dapperdudesgarage The door set includes a small metal support bar to go across the top in the middle but it is too wide to go on the door frame. The holes don't line up with anything.

[@dapperdudesgarage]

@@JamesDavis-dn3wo ok

[@dapperdudesgarage]

@@JamesDavis-dn3wo you just have to shoot it with self tapping screws and make your own holes

[@eduardolacerda393]

Can we make this same door a high lift door?

[@dapperdudesgarage]

Yeah absolutely.

[@dapperdudesgarage]

you can have the tracks raised and even match roof pitch. Just need to figure out the calculations on the lift and your golden! Higher longer cables, longer spring, bigger wider drums etc…

[@gripgaragedoor82]

That opening was probably a 16x7. Someone side to turn in two 9x7 opening

[@dapperdudesgarage]

very insightful! actually does make sense

[@RichB0330]

dude you need a table and some saw horses your back will thank you. And what was up with that wire that was rubbed through ?

[@dapperdudesgarage]

I have a couple saw horses. Use them on big doors but single car garage I’d honestly rather not mess with them. Seems like double the work to me. You still have to bend over and put the doors on the saw horses etc. Single doors are easy to mess with so I don’t waste the time loading and unloading anything extra. Just me.

[@ahole5407]

He's young and dumb. When he gets to be 40 he will realize that he trashed his back and by then won't be able to do anything about it. I know because I didn't listen either. I was the biggest badest dude on site doing concrete and busting rods. You couldn't tell me sh*t and I was invincible. Now It huts to put on my boots in the morning

[@user-st1yn3tq4e]

No top strut???

[@dapperdudesgarage]

not one needed here in Texas on a small 8x7 especially when its installed correctly and there are binding point or pressure build up.

[@user-st1yn3tq4e]

Right, didn’t mean it needs because of weather or anything. But with the operator j arm pulling on that stile over time it rips it off.

[@dapperdudesgarage]

@@user-st1yn3tq4e not here at Dapper Dudes…see we legit try to run yearly checkups on our customers, at a small lube and tune fee of course, and make sure everything is checking out. Anyway, my point is it doesn’t matter how long the door is up, if it is balanced and there is no pressure against the opener shutting the door and its balanced well up and down, its just going to run good. If over time it starts bowing then we have a small upsell we can make. Catch my drift, sir, lol. No man, for the price the customer paid they got the most basic option possible. I literally told them we could knock off a little price if we didn’t include a strut, and they simply said ok. So, i just install and if issues arise later then there is a need for me, for Dapper Dudes! It’s reoccurring business and why I don’t argue against what a customer wants. I make known the possibilities based on decisions they make and if they still say yes to save a buck then it’s on them in the future. But I am up front with customers etc. So either way, whatever the homeowner/customer wants…I’ll do.

[@user-st1yn3tq4e]

@@dapperdudesgarage understood. Thank you for clarifying.

[@dapperdudesgarage]

@@user-st1yn3tq4e just being honest…sometimes it’s truly business.

[@CarlosGarcia-pd6kt]

You seem to know, what you are doing. But with your videos, your narration , on what you are doing would be more interesting to watch. Instead of grunting and breath noises. Thanks

[@dapperdudesgarage]

Duly noted sir! Thanks, I’ll make sure to get rid of the awkward noises. That’s whats good about the feedback, as I document my journey with the feedback i’ll get better at this stuff and the edits. Much appreciated

[@dapperdudesgarage]

@@DudeEggs Ok, by now, I gotta ask….are you going to provide any valuable comments for me or this channel so people can actually benefit from you or are you going to continue the condescending nature? I know, I know, there are hot shots all across youtube and the world who can donit better than the next guy…do it better and has better ways. Appears we all just found that one guy --->@DudeEggs Come on, quit complaining and provide something valuable or unfortunately I’ll remove your comments and ability to comment any further. Your welcome here, but the senseless u professionalism simply won’t happen on this channel. Thanks for your feedback etc…but please be helpful or keep moving.

[@ahole5407]

I appreciate the hustle but you got to lay off the cocaine and drinking bro 😂you're young and us old timers can see it plain as day. Dont wind up in jail and give your wife an excuse to take everything in a divorce. Though she is probably already cheating on you so its going to happen sooner than later.

[@dapperdudesgarage]

Not sure if that’s really a compliment or you’re being a prick, but for now I’ll take it as a compliment! The comments about my wife cheating are kinda messed up though, but not really. Me and my wife have strong faith that anchors our relationship. Outside of that, pssshhh have you seen that sexy stud in the video??? You think any woman is cheating on that??? 😂😂😂

[@nicholasfranklin5355]

Why did you replace the door

[@dapperdudesgarage]

Because the customer is the boss and thats what they wanted lol. Nah, because the old one had an extension spring system and those are basically inefficient and relatively unbalanced, basically garbage.

[@nicholasfranklin5355]

Ok

[@nicholasfranklin5355]

Sorry I took forever to respond I was busy

[@nicholasfranklin5355]

Sorry

[@nicholasfranklin5355]

I wish i could replace garage doors but im only 13 :(

[@dapperdudesgarage]

Get hungry young man at an early age! Let that wish turn into a reality for you! Your at a great age to start learning. Your are limited a little due to your age but see if someone around you will teach you. Get hungry and ask questions that need to be asked then answer those questions you asked. You seem to be hungry to do big things. Keep it up!

[@nicholasfranklin5355]

Ok