How To Fix Sensor Garage Door

In this video i show you how to realign your garage door sensors so that the garage door can function properly.

How to fix sensor garage door.

Higher than that can miss many low lying objects including pets. If your door won t close it is likely that something is either covering one side of the sensor unit or has caused one side or the other to move off center. The sensors are located above the floor at each side of the door opening and. Garage door sensors are safety devices that prevent the door from closing on people pets or objects in the doorway.

Garage door openers manufactured after 1993 include sensors to prevent a door from closing on a child or pet. The sensors that make garage doors safer must be located in the worst possible place close to the floor. Electric garage door openers are a great innovation but as is the case with every electric electronic component things can go bad and malfunction. This is a brief demonstration on how to adjust the safety sensors on your garage door.

If your garage door sensors are outside of this range remove them entirely from the garage door frame and install leveled inside the safe zone. They normally look like this. Proper height for a garage door sensor is 4 to 6 inches 10 2 to 15 2 cm.