This can happen when the door has shifted to one side causing it to appear uneven.
One side of garage door higher.
So the first step is to secure the drum on the right side.
Climb the ladder and go up to the cable drum on the side of.
The correct amount of power isn t being transferred to all parts of the door causing one side to be higher than the other.
On this door the gap is on the left side but the door is lower on the right side so the first adjustment to make is on the right side.
If you ve had your door for a while or are in and out of it a lot it can easily end up out of alignment.
Retest the door balance as you did in step 1.
If it was opening too quickly move it to the next lower hole.
A balanced garage door should be relatively quiet when traveling up or down the door tracks.
It also depends a lot on the number of years the door has been up.
There are several things that can cause this.
Maybe someone bumped into it recently.
Added strain on the opener can cause an unbalanced door to be noisy.
Adjust the springs on both sides of the door the same way.
The most simple and common is door shift.
Garage door makes strange sounds when opening or closing.
If the door was closing too quickly move the spring to the next higher hole on the bracket.
Some times you need to adjust the garage door.
Because garage doors are usually sized to snugly fit the dimensions of the garage itself making the door larger usually means making the garage larger.
This door was lower on the right side because the cable drum had slipped on the right.
The door runs are housed in a garage door track one on each side of the garage door.