If the door is working properly it should be easy to lift by hand.
Garage door hung uo a few inches then stops.
You push the button to close the garage door.
This is almost always the result of a dirty or obstructed safety feature.
If the garage door still won t open maybe there s another source of dead batteries involved.
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.
This just started a couple weeks ago.
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An obvious reason why a stubborn door won t open concerns the batteries.
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.
Garage door will only open about 3 inches then stops this morning i opened my garage door drove out tried to close it but it refused to close.
The photo eye a small sensor hovers four to eight inches above the floor on the inside of the garage door track to detect objects in the path of the garage door.
Open up the case and look for a screw type track that moves when the opener runs.
Then sometimes it reverses at the bottom sometimes it reverses right after it starts moving.
Clean the photo eye.
Well sometimes it does.
After a few minutes i realized one of the wires for one of the garage door eyes was covering the eye so i moved it and the door closed.
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Garage door opener stops or reverses when activated.
Yes it doesn t take a garage door expert to know that batteries die and it s easy to forget to check them.
Open your garage door opener and change the batteries.
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It goes partway down reverses direction and goes back up again.
My garage door opens about six inches and stops i press the button twice so it will stop going down and then is goes up another 6 inches or so.