Garage Door Problems

Trouble Shooting Garage Doors and Openers

When it comes to home repairs it’s always worth the time to evaluate your specific situation before calling in a professional service provider. So this page and subsiding pages are to help you evaluate frequent problems with garage doors and openers. Most reoccurring garage door opener problems are simple adjustments that can be made by the average home owners. I will go over some helpful DIY repairs and tips. Plus I will go over some repairs that home owners should avoiding doing.

Symptoms

My Door Reverses

My opener runs but my door does not

My garage door will not work

My remote will not work

My garage door is trying to do a cartwheel

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Garage Door Trouble Shooting

My Garage Door Reverses

Photo cells not aligned up

Something obstructing safety edge

Something obstructing the door

When Liftmaster opener completes its cycle up watch for the opener's light to flash. You defiantly looking for a problem with photo cells. If light does not flash you defiantly need to call us. The first thing I like to do is disengage trolley and run the door down. I do this for two reasons: Number one, it is hard to see the photo cell's LED light up, number two, it must be human nature to stand in the opening while trying to align. Photo cells do go bad so if you can't get them aligned up contact us.

Photo Cells

Bad Safety Edge

Bad RPM board

Bad PC board

Door needs serviced

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Remote Problems

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Almost Always dead battery! If you have a Liftmaster use a flat head screw driver to pop open the remote.

(2032)Other Options

Remote is wore

Remote is defective

Live next to a cell phone tower

(Only openers on 315MHz)

The image below is for those living next to cell phone tower. This my Q conversion kit will fix your remotes lack of range. Only compatible with security+

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Door Opener runs but Garage Door Does Not

Trolley disengaged (Pull red rope toward the door to engage pull red rope away to keep disengaged)

Gears are striped out

Chain has broke or come loose

Trolley is broke

Garage Door Will Not Work

Ground Fault Tripped

PC Board

Broke Spring

Bad remote

A Short in Push Button

Door is Trying To Do a Cartwheel

The cable is thrown on one side. Looking up at the drum from the low side of the door, you should see the loose cable. Your door looks worse then it really is, so don't panic. Service is our top priority and the on job repair time is fairly quick. Just give us a call 256-572-9170