My Garage Door Won T Go All The Way Down

In order to figure out why your garage door won t open all the way you first need to make sure it s secure.

My garage door won t go all the way down.

Unplug the garage door opener unit. They can be a contributing factor when your garage door won t going down won t stay shut and won t opening all together. Carefully inspect the track and the rollers to see if something is stuck. Overtime the electrical connections can corrode and cause the garage door opener to malfunction.

Something mechanical has most likely bound up. It goes partway down reverses direction and goes back up again. Can you hold the button down to make the door go down. Garage doors are heavy and to prevent injuries manufacturers of automatic openers include safety sensors to stop the door when someone is in the way.

A twisted or slightly bent track may be the culprit. The travel controls how far the door goes up and down. If you operate your door manually and the door will not go all the way down don t force it. If you can close it completely to ground level.

You may also want to check the tracks and the garage door itself for the culprit. Right now your opener is reading the floor as an obstruction. This is almost always the result of a dirty or obstructed safety feature. When the door won t go down automatically.

Something is blocking the beam either the sender or receiver is misaligned kicked. When you pressed the button did the opener lights blink at you. Though this problem should be obvious it shouldn t be overlooked. Check your garage floor and the area surrounding it for any objects or debris that might be causing the improper close.

You push the button to close the garage door. Yes there is a problem with the photoelectric eyes. You don t want the door to come crashing down on you or anyone else once you begin disengaging your garage door opener. Garage door won t go down most common problems when a door won t go down.