Garage doors have two main sorts of springs. Extension springs run along the horizontal tracks on either side of your garage. They obtain their power by extending. Torsion springs go along a bar you can see above your garage door when it is closed. Torsion springs obtain their strength from twisting.

The malfunction of either one of the two springs on your garage door may most likely keep you from being able to open your garage door.

Sadly for most property owners, if one of your springs is broken, there's not much to do apart from to call a garage door repair business and have them come out and change the springs.

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But here's a product you can easily and may repair for yourself. If in case you have an opener, you also have some type of interrupter gadget that keeps the door from closing if its course is blocked.

If your garage door starts going down, then stops and goes back up, accompanied by your garage door opener's lights blinking, you have a difficulty you on which you can work

At times your garage door eyes will stop and reverse your door when there's no apparent reason. One reason might be that your stop/reverse units have been bumped and are no longer pointing at each other. If you guess that is the problem, use the set screws or wing nuts to adjust the lights, not a hammer.

The chief cause that your door will stop and reverse is that your "eyes" are working exactly as they are supposed to. There is an object blocking your garage door. Sometimes the object that is blocking the door is not apparent, so vigilantly look around your garage door opening. Ultimately you'll figure out what it is.

Another source for your garage door failure is that some grime or condensation has actually gotten on the lenses of the "eyes" and so they can not full the circuit.

If your door is still acting irradically the difficulty may not be your stop/reverse lights after all. You may have a problem with the logic board or the gear sprocket in your opener.

While a homeowner armed with an adventurous spirit and a certain quantity of mechincal skill can replace a logic board and a gear sprocket, perhaps the easiest course of action is to just get in contact with a garage door technician and have the trouble taken care of.

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Since garage doors do not fail to work very often, most people are caught unaware of what to do to get it fixed. Most people make some attempt to trouble shoot their issue before they give up and phone a garage door business. Hopefully this article has given you some insight into what items you can fix yourself and what items should best be left to a professional.