How To Fix Sensor Garage Door

Garage door sensors are safety devices that prevent the door from closing on people pets or objects in the doorway.

How to fix sensor garage door.

Proper height for a garage door sensor is 4 to 6 inches 10 2 to 15 2 cm. Lower is easy to stand above with a foot on either side. If your door won t close it is likely that something is either covering one side of the sensor unit or has caused one side or the other to move off center. Electric garage door openers are a great innovation but as is the case with every electric electronic component things can go bad and malfunction.

The sensor s transmitter sender and receiver are located on opposite sides of your garage door usually near the ground. They normally look like this. Garage door openers manufactured after 1993 include sensors to prevent a door from closing on a child or pet. If your garage door sensors are outside of this range remove them entirely from the garage door frame and install leveled inside the safe zone.

If you garage door is lowering then reversing back to the open position there could. Higher than that can miss many low lying objects including pets. The sensors that make garage doors safer must be located in the worst possible place close to the floor.