Is the garage door designed to prevent personal injury or property damage if the spring breaks?
All Clopay extension springs incorporate an exclusive safety containment cable that prevents a snapping spring from flying free and causing injury or damage. On all Clopay torsion spring garage doors, the spring is installed around the torsion shaft so that, if a spring should break, it cannot snap free and cause damage or injury. Are you able to loosen the bottom brackets of the garage door? Conventional garage door bottom brackets are under extreme tension and can cause serious injury if deliberately or accidentally loosened or removed by someone inexperienced in garage door installation or maintenance. Clopay residential steel garage doors feature our patented Safe-T-Bracket™ which, under normal circumstances, cannot be removed while the door is under tension, significantly reducing the risk of serious injury. Have you checked the spring on your garage door? Eventually, all springs will wear out and break, even high quality steel springs like the ones used by Clopay. If you have an
