Garage Door Wind Load Post

A wind loaded garage door is designed with specific components such as track jamb brackets hinges rollers and reinforcing struts that meet designated design wind pressures.

Garage door wind load post.

All of these components along with the door sections comprise a complete wind resistive system. The design pressure of the door must equal or exceed the design pressure for the garage door opening in which a door is to be installed. Using a wind load post on your garage door. Approved garage doors are available in a wide variety of designs and styles.

Before you put the post in you should disconnect the arm from the operator to the door and also unplug the operator. But they add peace of mind that your garage is secure and you re not going to have damage to your personal property. Use the same installation procedure for one two or three post assemblies. All raynor residential steel garage doors come with a wind load option except for aspen ap200lv luxevue because of its large windows.

While these wind load posts are rated for 120 mile an hour winds they bring your door up to code. Wind load garage doors you don t have to compromise style for preparedness. Attach the header lock bracket to the header using the 4 5 16 x 1 5 8 lag screws provided as shown in figure 1. Practically every door that amarr offers is available with a wind load reinforcement system to withstand high wind conditions.

The removable windload post is designed to be installed on any sectional garage door at the center hinge locations. A 20 psf wind load adds 4 800 pounds of load on the building jambs that s three times the roll up door weight. Windload kit for sutherland 1 layer and 2 layer garage door. The design wind load pressure rating of a door is expressed in psf pounds per square foot.

Amarr wind load garage doors look identical from the outside and are engineered to meet local building codes on the inside. Design pressure has positive and negative values. A wind loaded garage door is designed with specific components such as track jamb brackets hinges rollers and reinforcing struts that meet designated design wind pressures. They don t make yours a wind load door.

All of these components along with the door sections comprise a complete wind resistive system. For example a 20 by 20 non insulated 22 gauge chain operated hurricane garage door weights about 1 600 pounds. The header lock bracket should be in line with the intermediate hinges where the post is to be installed and located such that the bottom of the bracket is approximately 2 1 2. For a comprehensive review of raynor wind load tested and approved garage doors choose from the following options.

Wind load post installation instructions step 1.