My garage door Hinge broke- should I replace the entire raw or just the broken one?

when you have a broken hinge the first thing that you would want to do is inspect all of the other hinges visually to see if any other of them are broken and or distorted or bent in any way. If you have more than one bad hinge then it would probably be a really good idea to just replace them all. If you cannot replace all of the hinges on your garage door then you should obviously replace the bad ones.  Hinges come in different sizes and gauges. The gauge of the hinge represents the thickness of sheet metal that was used to construct the hinge.

14 gage hinge

When you are measuring the gauge of sheet metal then the higher the number means the thinner the sheet-metal is and the lower the gauge number means the thicker it is. Residential garage door hinges come in three different gauges 18 gauge 16 gauge and 14 gage. The 14 gage hinge will be the thickest and most durable hinge. Commercial garage door hinges will come in two different gauges and they are 13 gauge and 11 gauge with 11 gauge being the most durable. The garage door manufacturers engineer their own hinge systems and are usually totally different from conventional garage Door hinges.

specialty hinges

If you have one of the specialty hinges then you will need to try and identify the manufacturer of your garage door usually there will be a sticker with the company name on it that will tell you who made the door and then you will need to call a local garage door company and see if they have access to that manufacturers hinges. if you cannot identify the manufacturer then you will probably have to call out a garage door company who can do that for you usually they can just tell by looking at the hinges or the door itself to know who manufactured it. If you just have one or two broken hinges then you can probably find them at Lowes or Home Depot which they are sold individually and I’m pretty sure they just sell number 1 hinges. I don’t know if they sell number two or number three or number four hinges.