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One of the more popular are the double roller low headroom top fixtures, also called quick close fixtures, quick closing fixtures and rapid flex brackets. For many decades these low headroom top fixtures have been used successfully on wood garage doors by lowering the top strut below the top fixture. Lowering the top strut on a steel garage door, however, compromises the section's integrity and has led to many damaged top sections. This tutorial offers one solution for installing low headroom double roller top fixtures without damaging the section. This will allow a door to operate with a headroom clearance between 9 and 12 inches. Â» DDM Home.
After calling several local and National Companies most responded on average that there standard spring change and spring used on new doors are a 10,000 Ten Thousand to 15,000 Fifteen thousand Cycle Spring/s. So do the math based on the average. The national average number of times a garage door cycles in one day is four times. 4 cycles per day multiplied by 365 days equals 1,460 annual average divided into 10,000/15,000 cycles equals 6.84/10.26 years, lets round for ease of the math and say 7-10 Seven to Ten years respectively.