Garage Door Cannot Open Fully

When the door is fully open use a mallet to lightly tap the bent side of the track back into alignment.

Garage door cannot open fully.

Adjust the travel. As you open the door look for any signs of resistance or obstruction. Test the door s balance. Shut off the power to the garage door opener.

In this case call a service company to replace the spring s. Perhaps the greatest cause of a garage door that will not open all the way up is a lack of. Use a screwdriver to tighten the wire. The door should then lower easily and you can reconnect the opener.

To check the balance pull the emergency release cord or chain to disconnect the door. From here lift the garage door by hand about 3 feet above the ground and then release the door and see were it lands. Why your garage door won t fully open safety first. You should now be able to move the door up and down by hand.

With the door closed and disengaged from the opener manually lift the garage door. If the door is very heavy then you have a spring that is broken or that has failed. If your garage door is not balanced right it won t go up or down all the way. Do this with the door in the fully closed position.

Before doing any sort of troubleshooting on your garage door or garage door opener make.