Manual Override Electric Garage Door

Walk over to the door to push it up manually.

Manual override electric garage door. All electronic or automatic garage doors have a bypass that will allow you to open it manually. Do not try to pull the door using the manual release cord. This manual release handle disengages the trolley from the attachment point to the rail. Manually move the garage door and return to down position.

To manually open most garage doors you simply pull a corded handle that is attached to the door. Step 2 will allow you to freely move the garage door open and close. This disengages the electric drive from the door and you can manually open and close it. This becomes necessary when there is a power failure or for some reason you lose your remote.

Take care when operating the manual release when the door is open as it may. It will snap under the load. On most garage door openers there is a rope with a handle on the end usually red. Once you are done maneuvering your garage door and are ready to re engage the automatic door opener please return the garage door back to the down position.

Pulling on this rope will put the garage into manual mode so if the door is up it might come crashing down.