Glossary
Garage Door Technician Terms & Vocabulary
15 essential garage door technician terms with plain-English definitions: the vocabulary you’ll hear in training and on day one.
Key garage door technician vocabulary
These 15 terms come up constantly in garage door technician training, on the job and in interviews. Knowing them helps you follow instructions, document accurately and sound prepared.
- Balance
- Door stays where set.
- Blueprint
- Construction drawing.
- Cable drum
- Holds lift cables.
- Extension spring
- Side springs.
- Opener
- Motor unit.
- Opener rail
- Track the opener trolley rides on.
- OSHA
- Workplace safety agency.
- Photo eye
- Safety sensor.
- Punch list
- Final fix list.
- Roller
- Guides the door.
- Rolling door
- Commercial coiling door.
- Torsion spring
- Spring above the door.
- Track
- Door rail.
- Wind count
- Turns put on a spring.
- Winding bar
- Tool for springs.
Practice these terms
Test yourself with the free Garage Door Technician practice test: it includes vocabulary questions built from this list. For a complete course, see Garage Door Technician training.
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