Going Up or Down?…….
Going Up or Down?
That’s a fine question if you are getting on an elevator, but when it come to your garage door, it’s not something you want to wonder about as you are pulling away from your house in your car. Everyday I see people back their cars out of their garages, then drive away down the street as their garage doors are closing. What they failed to see was the garage door stopping and opening back up.
All garage doors nowadays have sensors to prevent the doors from closing on children. Most doors have a light beam sensor that emits a light beam from a sensor on one side of the garage door to another sensor located on the other side of the door. When this light beam connection between the sensors is broken or interrupted, the closing garage door will stop and go back up.
A lot of things can cause the sensor to send the garage door back up. A cat running across the beam into the garage, a leaf blown by the wind across the beam, spider webs collecting on the sensor eyes, or even the sensors being slightly out of alignment. I accidentally bumped one of my sensors one day while taking out the garbage and it was enough to make my garage door malfunction. When I tried to shut my garage door, it would go ¾ of the way down then stop and go back up. If I wasn’t watching the door as I left, it would have been open all day long.