My Garage Door Won T Open Or Close All The Way

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 open or close all the way. When your garage door won t open with the remote there are few things that can cause this problem. Garage door won t close all the way if the garage door opens correctly but fails to close completely there may be one of three common causes. The antenna on the motor could be damaged or blocked from the signal. You might be out of range.

You may also want to check the tracks and the garage door itself for the culprit. If your garage door is not balanced right it won t go up or down all the way. From here lift the garage door by hand about 3 feet above the ground and then release the door and see were it lands. If you can hear your garage door motor running for what seems like the full amount of time it normally would take to open or close the door but the door doesn t move chances are the disconnect switch has been enabled.

You don t want the door to come crashing down on you or anyone else once you begin disengaging your garage door opener. If there s something blocking the door from closing all the way a full close will be impossible. Depending on the brand. First check the sensor lights.

They both have lights and both lights should be on. 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. 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. If your garage door won t close all the way the problem could be due to a blocked photo eye.

The close limit switch may need adjusting. 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. The majority of garage doors manufactured since the early 1990s are equipped with this safety feature. The photo eye components consist of two pieces that align face to face across each side of the garage door roughly four feet above the ground.

There is one on each side of the door. If you can close it completely to ground level. Make sure it is hanging down from the motor. Every garage door opener comes with a disconnect switch in case you lose power.

You should now be able to move the door up and down by hand. Check your garage floor and the area surrounding it for any objects or debris that might be causing the improper close. Your garage door has set limit switches that instruct the motor when to stop running both when it is opening and when it is closing.