Garage Door Closes And Reopens

Inspect the control wiring.

Garage door closes and reopens.

What to do when your garage door opens and closes by itself check with your neighbors. When that happens the distance your garage door needs to travel may change. Garage doors have many parts that all work together including safety features. The button can easily get dirty and stuck in the pushed position.

If the door goes up seemingly on its own after you close the door be sure to check for any debris the sensor is picking up. These garage doors have sensors near the ground to ensure nothing gets stuck underneath the door when it closes. 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. An exposed spot or a short circuit in the small gauge wire that leads from the garage.

If your garage door won t open or close the problem could be a bent track a broken torsion spring or a bad capacitor int he motor housing. If the garage door does not close completely or begins to close and then opens back up again the down limit switch needs. This will cause the door to open and close until the button becomes unstuck. You push the button to close the garage door.

In rare instances a nearby neighbor may have a garage door opener set to the same wireless. Close the garage door with the opener and watch it closely as it closes. Clean the button as well as the connections in the housing if this is the case. This is almost always the result of a dirty or obstructed safety feature.

If it closes only partway the safety sensors are usually responsible clean the lenses or realign them and make sure there are no obstacles blocking the beam. But changes in weather conditions can causes your garage door components to shift or contract.