Top 3 Reasons Your Garage Door Fails To Close

Why Wont Your Garage Door Close?

Your garage door plays a critical role in your home’s security. When your garage door is working properly, it provides a strong barrier to the inside of your home. However if your garage door fails to close, it creates an opportunity for someone to slip inside, where they can just walk right through the interior door to your house.

A garage door that fails to close is a security risk, and you need to call in a local same day garage door service to get the issue addressed as quickly as possible.

If your garage door isn’t closing, here are three possible reasons why:

Something Is Blocking The Garage Door Sensor

Modern garage door openers come with an important safety feature: The sensors, or photo-eye lenses. They are located on either side of the garage door, usually attached to the garage door tracks.

They detect whether something is blocking the opening of the garage. If something is there, the garage door will maybe go down a few inches or not at all. That is important because it prevents the garage door from crushing down on your car or other object, protecting your door and your personal property.

Even more importantly, it prevents the garage door from closing on a person or an animal and causing serious harm or even death.

Now, if you look around and can’t see anything that’s in the way, the sensor lens could be dirty or malfunctioning. Get a Mesa same day garage door service to take a closer look.

Your Remote Is Malfunctioning

Most people use a remote to open and close their garage door. And the remote is usually reliable. But sometimes, it can break down just like the garage door can break down. Everything might be working fine with your garage door, but if there is something wrong with your garage door opener, the garage door is not going to respond the way it should.

A lot of the times, it could just be a dying or dead battery. Pro Tip: Most garage door opener remotes' batteries are the CR2032 batteries.  A Chandler garage door repair service will look not only at what could be malfunctioning with your garage door but also what could be malfunctioning with your garage door opener. A same day service will be able to repair or replace both the door or the opener quickly.

Something Is Blocking the Garage Door

This happens a lot more than people think. There could be a box or Christmas decoration on a shelf blocking the garage door. It could be one of your kids' toys that they forgot to put away. Or just like what is pictured here, handles of yard tools or other things stored on either side of the garage door could tip over and prevent the garage door from closing. 

This all may seem like obvious things that people would catch, but they can be easy to miss. If the garage door opener senses that there is something blocking the garage door from closing, it will reverse back up to the opening position because of its safety features. If you notice that there is something in the way and the garage door opener continues to push the garage door down, then there might be an issue with those safety features. Call an experienced local technician to come out and make the proper adjustments necessary to ensure that your system is working properly. 

Hire a Reliable Garage Door Service Company In Queen Creek and the Greater Phoenix Valley

Whenever something is not working right with your garage door, try a few known fixes like changing out the batteries in your garage door opener or checking the area near the sensor. But if those things do not work, do not try to diagnose or repair your garage door or opener yourself.

Call in the professionals to perform a thorough diagnostic and to make the needed repairs. Only the professionals have the proper knowledge and training to perform the repairs quickly and safely. If you attempt to DIY this complicated work, you could end up causing more damage or getting hurt.

Call Same Day Garage Door Services if you are experiencing any trouble with your garage door or garage door opener in the East Valley area. Our professionals are licensed, bonded, and insured, and they are able to work on any type of garage door or garage door opener. We can service, repair, or replace any garage door opener, usually on the same day. We also provide a free, no-obligation estimate on new garage doors, and we offer a 100 percent satisfaction guarantee on all our work. Same Day Garage Door Services serve homes in Gilbert, Chandler, Mesa, Queen Creek, and the surrounding area. Contact us today to schedule a same-day consultation with one of our experienced professionals.

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1176 East Warner Road #117

Gilbert, AZ 85296

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