How To Fix Sensor Garage Door

Garage door sensors are safety devices that prevent the door from closing on people pets or objects in the doorway.

How to fix sensor garage door.

They normally look like this. 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. Proper height for a garage door sensor is 4 to 6 inches 10 2 to 15 2 cm. This is a brief demonstration on how to adjust the safety sensors on your garage door.

If you garage door is lowering then reversing back to the open position there could. In this video i show you how to realign your garage door sensors so that the garage door can function properly. Higher than that can miss many low lying objects including pets. The sensor s transmitter sender and receiver are located on opposite sides of your garage door usually near the ground.

Electric garage door openers are a great innovation but as is the case with every electric electronic component things can go bad and malfunction. Lower is easy to stand above with a foot on either side. The sensors that make garage doors safer must be located in the worst possible place close to the floor.