Tuesday, March 10, 2015
Thursday, March 5, 2015
Garage door not closing? The repair could be very simple!
Garage door not closing?
The solution to this could be very easy. If your garage door is not closing and either goes down a little and back up and blinks and clicks or just blinks and clicks after you push the button, you have a safety eye issue. The easiest fix is just to save yourself a service call from a garage door company and fix it yourself. The way you do this is just look at both sensor eyes and make sure they are lined up toward each other and that there is nothing blocking them. Make sure the sensor with the green light is not blinking, flickering a little or off. If all these things check out the sensors are aligned and you should be able to hit the button and your garage door will go down. Sometimes the sensor eyes will look like they are lined up but if you look very carefully you will see a slight flicker to the one with the green light, make sure they are the same height on the door track or the wall and are looking into each other's eyes like star crossed lovers.
The sunlight issue!
Some houses just face the wrong direction or they need their sensor eyes swapped because at certain times of the day the sunlight hitting the sensor eye is so bright and intense that the sensor eye can't recognize the infrared beam coming from the other sensor and your garage door will not close. If this is the case, you can take a piece of cardboard and tape it to the sensor eye that has the sun beating down on it, just don't block the view of the other sensor eye, but create a shadow on the sensor eye lense. This should fix the problem and your door will close. Like I said earlier you can also swap the sensor eyes to the other sides of the door.
Force settings.
You want to make sure that the force setting for the garage door are set low enough for the garage door to close every time but to pop back up if they encounter an obstruction. There are two, usually blue triangle dials on the back of the head unit of the garage door opener. I usually have these set to 3 or so to keep the garage door from being damaged or from damaging property. Sometimes the force setting is too low and that will cause the garage door to not close. If you hit the button and the garage door doesn't close and it opens back up without the clicking and blinking lights, This could be the issue. Check to make sure there are no obstructions to the door closing and try to move the force setting up 1 notch. That should fix it. If it doesn't continue to the next step.
Obstructions and damaged hardware.
If you have tried all of the above solutions and your garage door not closing properly, You could have a broken hinge or roller or other piece of hardware. Check every moving part and open and close the door manually to try to find the cause. If you are unable to determine the cause at this point the best thing to do is call a garage door professional. I recommend North Metro Garage in Denver CO.
The solution to this could be very easy. If your garage door is not closing and either goes down a little and back up and blinks and clicks or just blinks and clicks after you push the button, you have a safety eye issue. The easiest fix is just to save yourself a service call from a garage door company and fix it yourself. The way you do this is just look at both sensor eyes and make sure they are lined up toward each other and that there is nothing blocking them. Make sure the sensor with the green light is not blinking, flickering a little or off. If all these things check out the sensors are aligned and you should be able to hit the button and your garage door will go down. Sometimes the sensor eyes will look like they are lined up but if you look very carefully you will see a slight flicker to the one with the green light, make sure they are the same height on the door track or the wall and are looking into each other's eyes like star crossed lovers.
The sunlight issue!
Some houses just face the wrong direction or they need their sensor eyes swapped because at certain times of the day the sunlight hitting the sensor eye is so bright and intense that the sensor eye can't recognize the infrared beam coming from the other sensor and your garage door will not close. If this is the case, you can take a piece of cardboard and tape it to the sensor eye that has the sun beating down on it, just don't block the view of the other sensor eye, but create a shadow on the sensor eye lense. This should fix the problem and your door will close. Like I said earlier you can also swap the sensor eyes to the other sides of the door.
Force settings.
You want to make sure that the force setting for the garage door are set low enough for the garage door to close every time but to pop back up if they encounter an obstruction. There are two, usually blue triangle dials on the back of the head unit of the garage door opener. I usually have these set to 3 or so to keep the garage door from being damaged or from damaging property. Sometimes the force setting is too low and that will cause the garage door to not close. If you hit the button and the garage door doesn't close and it opens back up without the clicking and blinking lights, This could be the issue. Check to make sure there are no obstructions to the door closing and try to move the force setting up 1 notch. That should fix it. If it doesn't continue to the next step.
Obstructions and damaged hardware.
If you have tried all of the above solutions and your garage door not closing properly, You could have a broken hinge or roller or other piece of hardware. Check every moving part and open and close the door manually to try to find the cause. If you are unable to determine the cause at this point the best thing to do is call a garage door professional. I recommend North Metro Garage in Denver CO.
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