Garage doors need springs to work. Without a spring to lift the weight of the garage door, it would be impossible to open. There are two types of spring used in garage door construction. Torsion springs and extension springs. Torsion springs are located along the top of your garage door when it is closed. Extension springs go along the tracks on either side of your door when it is open.

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

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While the typical homeowner should never try to replace an torsion spring with no specific training, extension springs are feasible to replace. Replacement springs can usually be found in big box stores.

However here is an item you can and may repair for yourself. When you have an opener, you also have some type of interrupter device that retains 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

Does your garage go down, then back up for no apparent reason? If you've carefully looked for for an object in the way of the door and can't find anything, you may have bumped your stop/reverse lights out of alignment.

If your garage door still refuses to go down and stay there, keep looking. Determination will pay. You'll in time find an object blocking your garage door's "eyes.

If you've looked high and low for the thing blocking your garage door to the point that you have become frustrated, it may be that nothing is blocking it. Sometimes a fleck of dirt, an insect or condensation has gotten on the lenses of your stop/reverse lights. Wipe the lenses with a dry cloth and see if that works.

If cleaning the lenses doesn't make your issue go away, the responsibility may lie with your garage door opener. You may have a bad sprocket or bad logic board.

It is feasible for a home owner to change both the gear sprocket and logic board. The problem is getting the correct components and learning exactly how to change each item. More often life is easier if you just get in contact with a garage door specialist to perform the replacement. They've served hundreds of people and they can assist you too.

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Garage doors are typically extremely dependable and taken for granted by their owners. That means that when one fails, it is typically a new experience for the typical home owner. They are not attentive of the existence of garage door companies and they are apprehensive that their garage door may be costly to fix. Luckily garage door businesses are in a competitive environment and this keeps their rates reasonable. Give one of them a call. You can be pleasantly surprised.