Well sometimes it does.
Garage door stops or reverses.
A garage door that only opens halfway becomes a nuisance for many reasons.
Repeat the same steps if your garage door opens and reverses.
This is a safety feature that has been added to garage door openers to help prevent the door from closing on a car pet or even a child.
Because most pre 1982 garage door openers do not comply with current safety standards the consumer product safety commission cpsc recommends replacement with an opener that has an auto.
But this time use the opening travel limits dial icon with the arrow pointing up the garage door opens partially.
Check the bottom of the door.
When the garage door immediately leaps upward after touching the floor this too is a close limit switch problem.
Garage door reverses immediately after touching the floor.
How to troubleshoot a garage door that stops halfway down.
Then sometimes it reverses at the bottom sometimes it reverses right after it starts moving.
Adjust the close limit adjustment screw on the door opener motor in small increments until the door stops upon touching the floor.
If there s anything stuck to the bottom of the door such as a leaf a small piece of paper.
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.
If it still reverses raise the door halfway and stop it.
Quite often the cause of your door s malfunction is an.
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.
The photo eyes send an infrared beam across the bottom of your garage door opening if that beam is broken the door will reverse.