Garage plays a vital role in any home; apart from accommodating cars, the garage can be used as storage space as well. Over the past few years, kids and pets suffered the wrath of the heavy garage doors, especially when they found themselves on the way to the door.
These days most of the houses have installed garage doors that can be opened automatically with remote control. Garage door manufacturers incorporated sensors to enhance safety so a door can reverse when it detects an obstacle. Below are the typical garage door problems that well list below and how to fix them.
Noisy Garage Door
If your bedroom is situated close to the garage, you may notice your garage making a lot of noise while opening or closing. This kind of noise disrupts your peaceful environment, and you have to open your garage door when kids are asleep, then it may even wake them up. Because we have dealt with this kind of problem, we recommend our customer to carry out routine maintenance, reducing noise intensity.
However, you can also call us to replace the door hinges, which may have been worn out. Additionally, when the rollers on your metal track are worn out, you’ll always hear this frustrating noise from your garage as the bearing never rolls smoothly.
Irresponsive Door remote control
It’s effortless to open your garage door using a remote control, but you’ll be surprised if you wake up one day and the door won’t open no matter the keys you press on your remote. The simple trick of troubleshooting this kind of garage door problem is to check the remote control batteries. Your remote transmitter will require a power supply to send signals to the garage door opener.
Therefore, it implies that the used-up battery may render your remote control functionless. However, when you discover the battery isn’t the root cause of the failing remote control, try getting close to the opener range recommended by the manufacturer. If these two hacks don’t solve your problems, then reprogram the remote.
Reversing garage door
One of the security features added to garage door openers designed after 1993 is the sensor which automatically prevents opening or closing when a pet or child is on the door. So, it’s normal to see the door reversing when your cat is within the door sensor area. However, it becomes a significant garage door problem when it keeps reversing, and you can’t see anything obstructing it.
We at HME Garage Door Company researched and realized that it might be caused by either an obstacle or failing sensors. So, check around and remove any barrier along your garage door path. Alternatively, take some time to analyze the garage door sensor on either side if they are perfectly aimed at each other.
Wall switch doesn’t respond
Is it the end for me if my wall switch fails to work? You have a lot of weight to bear already, and an unresponsive wall switch shouldn’t be one of these burdens. We have a team of well conversant professionals with the opening/closing mechanism of the digital garage doors. So, if you realize the wall switch isn’t functional, don’t rush into troubleshooting the signal issues.
While we install a garage door, we connect the wall switch to the door opener. So, the primary cause of this common garage door problem is the wiring or faulty wall switch. We recommend detaching the two wires in the wall switch for further troubleshooting options and bringing them together.
When the door opener responds, then you know what to do, buy a new wall switch. However, if you connect the wires you had detached, and the opening doesn’t respond, you can consider replacing your garage door wiring with 18–22-gauge wire.
Failing IR Sensors
Modern garage doors have a safety eye feature that allows easy opening, but homeowners find it difficult to open the garage doors with this feature. Generally, it can cost you approximately $80 service fee to solve a faulty safety eye. The major cause of such problems usually is misaligned, broken, disconnected, malfunctioning, or obstructed safety eye.
Safety eye problem prevents the garage door from closing, but it won’t affect opening. Furthermore, it’s a problem you can solve by pressing the wall control button from the inside. You can troubleshoot the IR sensor problem with a keypad or remote.
Garage Door Won’t Close or Open During a Power Outage
Before pressing your remote, the power goes off instantly, and the truth is that you won’t open or close it. But it doesn’t mean you want to get in or out of your garages. Many garage door brands have backup options that enable easy access to the garage even during a power outage.
However, it would help if you manually closed/open the door by pulling the emergency code, which will disengage the motor. After that, pull the door to close it manually. When power comes back, push up the latch and open the door with a remote, an easy process that will re-engage the garage door.
If you not able to fix the problem give us a call for our overhead garage door repair services
Garage Door Doesn’t Open or Close Fully
By default, pressing the open or close button on your remote should completely open or close the door. However, there can be a time when the door doesn’t open completely, which means you won’t easily access the garage. You may think that there is an obstacle preventing it from fully opening, but the problem is likely with the set-limit switch.
But since the set-limit switch available on the motor can be adjusted, it will be easy to solve the garage door problem with an inaccurate set-limit switch configuration. Another way to correct an issue where the garage door doesn’t close fully is to deal with the appropriate realignment of safety sensors.
Broken or Loose Garage Seal
Another major garage door problem has a leaking garage door seal. Sometimes it’s generally referred to as weather stripping and can allow insects, water, debris, and dirt into your garage. The best solution to this problem is to buy a weather seal and replace it with the old one on your garage door. If you are lucky enough, then perhaps you already have the garage door seal in your garage-specific kit.
Garage Door Sags
When you have wooden garage doors, they may sage after a year of opening and closing them. So, the outcome of a sagging garage door will result in garage doors that are hard to open or close. We use tension rods to repair sagging doors, but it’s also an excellent choice to reconsider a garage door replacement for the safety of your kids and pets.
Garage Door Motor Doesn’t Run
Although your door is fully open or closed, the motor is still running. The leading cause of this problem is related to the proximity of the up-limit switch to the motor unit. However, this is a type of problem that usually occurs after installing a new door opener unit. The best hack is to move the up-limit switch slightly away from the motor as the door may fail to open when the switch is too far.
With the above-mentioned top 10 common garage door problems and their troubleshooting tips, you should be able to handle any of them the next time your door fails. However, if you aren’t sure of the right step, you can always call us for our professional garage door repair services to help solve the most challenging garage door problems.