Garage Door Repair - Connections and Opener

Hello,

I posted earlier this year about an issue with my garage door. Here

Up to this point, we had been opening and closing the door manually since I still couldn't figure out what the issue was from the previous thread and we never got around to having someone come out to look at it. Well, it seems that someone opened the door with too much force and possibly caused it to rip the wood off the center wall which has everything attached to it. (See pictures)

As you can see, it looks like they just used small nails to attach this piece of wood to the block wall, which doesn't seem ideal. I had a garage door company come out and look at it and they said they would need to cut the side cables, disconnect everything, put up a new piece of wood and use special anchors, and then reinstall everything.

1. The door is in a closed position and it seems there is tension on the side cables. Wouldn't cutting them be dangerous? Is there any way to disconnect them without cutting/destroying them? They said I would need to pay around $150 for new cables.

2. Can't I just push the wood back up into place and use Tapcons to attach it? Is doing all the work they specified really necessary?

3. If I can just put the wood back up and get the door functioning manually, I planned to install a new opener. I bought a 1.25 HP opener to replace the .5 HP opener currently installed. Regarding my original issue with the door being suctioned to the ground and needing more power to break the seal in order to open, would the higher horsepower opener likely give this extra power?


Thank you!

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mdjd, maybe to get all the details about your exact situation - a repairman should right near it, to get all the needed information and to test some things using different tools, you know. So maybe it's not the best option to get a help via forums. But I can recommend you this service here ( weblink: https://a1garage.com/garage-door-repair/ ), because these guys helped me one day, few months ago. That's why I can highly recommend them. They fixed my garage doors, which had almost the same issue you have for now.

Maybe the best way to know what you really encounter is to look for a technician near you, take some consultation to them. It's hard to check the spring without the necessary tool, but you can figure that the spring or cable is broken with the movement. But the best thing is to look for expert, if you're in Ontario, there's a service I tried and recommend, check them here and try to ask the garage door service provider in Strathroy.