Garage Door Only Closes Sometimes

To test trigger the remote while standing close to the motor unit if the door opens consistently from that close distance interference is likely the problem.

Garage door only closes sometimes.

Your garage door is programmed to travel a certain distance before it closes. Quite often the cause of your door s malfunction is an improperly set garage door limit. You may check the owner s manual on how to do the adjustment. 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.

The button can easily get dirty and stuck in the pushed position. If it closes before that distance has been traveled it thinks something is wrong and it reopens to help prevent any damage or safety risk. Garage doors sometimes seem to have a mind of their own often deciding when and how far they want to open or close. A garage door that only opens halfway becomes a nuisance for many reasons.

This requires a simple turn with. To troubleshoot the garage door opener button make sure it s clean and free of debris. This is a none too uncommon problem on newly installed garage doors where the opener might be set to an arbitrary factory setting that doesn t suit the door in question. This is almost always the result of a dirty or obstructed safety feature.

A garage door stuck closed is often the result of misadjusted sensitivity settings. Radio interference from other devices such as photoelectric sensors for security lights can prevent the garage door opener from responding to the signal from the remote. It all depends on the configuration but you likely have a button that activates the door operator. To give you information about these the travel limit controls how far your garage door opens and closes during its operation while force limit controls how much pull is needed to get the door completely open.

The problem is often intermittent. This will cause the door to open and close until the button becomes unstuck. Sometimes the fix can be as simple as replacing the batteries in the opener and. You push the button to close the garage door.