Garage Automatic Doors Problems

These are heavy duty springs that do all of the hard work when opening your door.

Garage automatic doors problems.

If your door will not open and you re confident that the motor and the transmitters are functioning correctly there s a good chance you have a problem with your garage door torsion springs. In order to fix this you ll want to make small changes to the close limit setting until the door opener knows to stop once the door has reached the floor. This is a problem that will require you or a service person to replace it. If something is blocking the signal laser the door won t close.

If there are no physical components. A partially working garage door is easy to ignore but also very easy to fix. A door that is sticking is perhaps the most common and annoying of all possible garage door problems. The metal rollers and hinges on a garage door can become stuck making it hard for the garage door to open and close.

If your garage door is closing fully and then reversing to open again then it may be due to a problem with the close limit switch. The garage door cable enables you to pass through a heavy door safe and sound. If the circuit breaker or gfci is tripping repeatedly it s a sign that there is a short circuit somewhere in the system possibly even the garage door opener itself. Finally it s possible the garage door opener s motor has burned out and isn t operating at all.