My Garage Door Will Not Close Unless I Hold The Button Down

You will find that the door will only move an inch or so in the close direction and reverse.

My garage door will not close unless i hold the button down.

Another clue to the mystery was if you held the wall switch the door would completely close. If an operational problem exists and the garage door opener will not close the opener can be forced to close. Depending on the brand. When the door is up the sensor lights are off.

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. Door starts down then stops before it is closed. After i hold the button down to close it the sensor lights come back on. First check the sensor lights.

Clutter or obstructions that block the sensor are the first problems to look for if your door won t close or in extreme cases open at all. If anything interrupts this beam of light the garage door will not close and the ceiling light on the opener mechanism will flash as mentioned in the previous step. However the remote would not be able to close the door even if you held the button. The transmitters remotes will not work to close the garage door.

When this happens your garage door will only close by holding down on the wall button or wall console until the door fully closes. This is of course a safety feature to prevent the heavy garage door crushing anyone or anything that might be in the pathway of the door when it comes down. Check garage door for binding. 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.

I ve made sure there are no obstacles and that the sensors are aligned properly. The protector system safety reversing sensors. Press and hold the wall console button until the garage door is completey closed.