Expert Advice on the Problems With Garage Door Openers

Are your garage door openers working properly? Do they need replacement or repair? Let the experts decide.

It has been observed that garage door openers are overlooked just like the roof of a property because people are not much concerned about their performance and don’t even realize their importance until they start to create problems and cause discomfort to the inhabitants. When they encounter any issue, everything seems to be uncomfortable because they tend to be a crucial part for any home.

When the garage door opener gets a problem, it causes inconvenience by causing noise or even don’t open/close smoothly, thus making homeowners concerned about their home’s as well as vehicle’s safety. In such situation, Sprint Garage Doors recommends to install a new, automatic version of garage door openers that offer the following benefits:

• Easy access to and from the garage door

• Maximum performance safety, especially late at night

• Security for inhabitants and their belongings

• Reducing physical exertion of lowering and lifting heavy doors

Here, the thing to keep in mind is that glitches always happen during the most inappropriate times, like an urgency/emergency and extreme weather. Experts have listed some of the common problems in garage doors openers that homeowners should take care of and respond immediately to solve them:

• External power outage

• Electrical wiring problem because of power surges or shortage

• Faulty remote control device

• Internal breaker/fuse box issues

• Remote control batteries that need replacement

• Door opener malfunctions

All these problems usually arise when the garage door is in close position and homeowners always have to struggle in getting their vehicles inside the place. This problem can be solved either by repair or replacement services, meaning that homeowners can avoid manually operations with the garage door openers. Other than that, there are some methods to manually open garage doors without calling the experts. Let’s find out some of them:

• Thread/feed bent coat hanger or hook that is made up of a sturdy wire to hold and loosen the emergency latch

• Pass a thin wooden slat/shim along the door’s top edge and through the weather stripping in order to ensure easy access.

• Install an emergency release kit or lock cylinder at the door’s top panel

• Use the lock’s key to pull out the cylinder

• Detach the cold that is connected with the cylinder and emergency latch

Another worth mentioning fact is that some garage door openers are not provided with emergency release kits and therefore, homeowners might be hesitant to catching or releasing the emergency latch. On the contrary, when it comes to those automatic doors that have emergency release kits, the key mechanism might be misplaced or lost. In such situation, all they have to do is to hire expert services and rest assured about the results.