Far too technical - I used a bungee to clip the door to a hook on the fascia of my garage when the spring/wire broke

Best thing to do is get yourself round to one of the local housing associations and speak to the maintenance chapp/ess and ask if he's willing to help you out. Much cheapness and an almost permanent fix

Al

Does this make any sense?

That would be the same as pic 2 in my first drawing.

Ah sorry, I must be a bit thick today.

Nah I realised the attempts in Paint were crap. I have some neodymium magnets somewhere which have holes to allow you to screw them in to things. I think I need a decent block of wood to support the hinge.

This is the hinge itself: clicky

If the door is pressing on the hinge, you may want to consider something of a heavier gauge.

Mine was closer to this:


Although, my door rested quite heavily on the hinge.

Mine doesn't rest on the hinge. Most of the garage door, when open, is inside the garage. That's why I put the hinge inside. If I was going to rest the garage door on it, the hinge would be outside, but didn't want that.

As it stands, the garage door is fine when fully open. The wind, when it blows hard, causes it to come down. Rather than put the hinge under the door, I put it above, so it stops the top of the door from going into the fully up position. It's meant more as a door stop than anything else.

Even with the winds howling, the door has never come down more than half-way and probably no more than about a third of the way down.

Well it worked. For the first time since I put it up, we've had strong winds. The garage door came down when I opened it, so held it open and put the "lock" in place. Managed to get the car out without the garage door coming down on it.

My only thoughts are proper bolts and nuts, and rubber. The magnets came with a set but the nuts are designed to stop after screwing on to the bolt, which means I can't get a secure attachment. Still, the magnets are strong enough despite the slack. I think a wad of rubber would be grate as a cushion for the door and fill in the tiny gap between the door and the "stop".

So over a year on, and I need a better solution.

The hinge TBH is rather flimsy. There's too much play/movement so any upward force can cause it swing one way orthe other. This hasn't been helped by the numerous times I've forgotten that I've put the hinge into place and I've tried to close the garage door, which in turn has knackered the hinge. It's also sloping/triangular so only a small part makes actual contact.

Another hinge would work and I've bought a heavy duty version which is a straight flat bar. It'll make more contact with the door and less likely to be knackered but it's still too flimsy. I need the hinge to "lock" into place.

A heavier duty strap hinge would have been a better choice initially - that's what I used.

We got a remote roller shutter garage door about a year ago after the old 'up-and-over' door came part down onto my head during a windy day

I said a few choice words and decided enough was enough - cost just over a grand but for me it is money well spent as use remote when come into the drive and then drive straight into the garage.

Wanted to do that but can't. There are gas and electricity pipes either side and the roof would need to be reinforced (it's below the upstairs bathroom and has this plasterboard stuff on it).

Okay so am running into problems. I replaced the hinge with a stronger, thicker metal one which I thought was doing a fine job until earlier in the week when we had strong winds. It was then I realised the problem with my design.

Here's how the garage door normally opens:



yellow = frame
grey = runners
red = door


blue = hinge

Now I thought the hinge would stop the garage door closing. It works fine in light winds but anything stronger and it closes. Funnily enough the top of the garage door stays in the right place but the runners go down. The door then sticks at this point due to the hinge.

The design flaw is that the hinge/door stop needed to be under the garage door on the outside. The problem is that there's nothing there to attach a stop or hinge to.

Any suggestions?

Drill a hole in the runners that you can screw a bolt into, which you can simply undo and remove as and when you desire?