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A compromised garage door does little in protecting your garage.
As the main barrier outside your residence, the doors inside your garage should always protect your residence.
However, it’s not uncommon for problems to exist every time.
When a garage door opens by itself, it’s a symptom of a much bigger problem inside the garage.
It’s best to book for a thorough inspection and garage door repair in Austin.
Professionals should examine the current state of your doors to ensure that it closes properly all the time.
We are Lone Star Garage Doors Austin, and we offer our professional services to all garage owners in town.
Whether you have a residential overhead door or a commercial roll-up that protects the business, you can’t risk having a door that opens randomly.
Unwanted intrusions and burglaries are common, and one way to do that is by taking advantage of a garage that is not well-protected.
Let’s find out some of the most common reasons why a garage door opens by itself.
This way, you can try to mitigate the problem before calling us.
Path obstruction
The first reason is that something is blocking the path of the door panels.
All mechanisms have a safety measure called auto-reversal.
In auto reversal, once there is something in the path, the door panels travel up again.
Simple physical contact with a person or an object forces the door panels upward.
As this is standard to all systems, it’s better to ensure that there is nothing in the path of the panels.
Dirty photo eyes
Photo eyes are part of the door sensors, which are commonly at the foot of the tracks.
Inspect the door sensors and pay particular attention to the photo eyes of the sensors.
Dirty photo eyes can send false signals to the opener, which results in immobile door panels at the overhead tracks.
When something is blocking the sensor LEDs, the door panels automatically stop traveling.
Check for moisture build-up and dirt accumulation on the inside of the photo-eye lens.
Door opener issues
Door openers have circuit boards and use electricity to function correctly.
When there are damages to the circuit board, which controls the opener’s function, then malfunctions are more likely to occur.
One of the most common symptoms of this is when the garage door opens by itself.
It’s best not to tamper with a damaged opener.
Cut off its power source to avoid overheating and danger, and call Lone Star Garage Doors Austin for repair service.
Malfunctioning remote control
One of the most simple reasons why the garage stays open is a damaged remote control.
When the remote control buttons start to sag or don’t work when you press a button, the opener doesn’t receive any command.
With this problem, go to the retail store and inquire about remote controls for the garage.
Don’t forget to buy brand new battery packs as well.
Test the garage as you control the opener using the brand new handheld.
Interference from neighboring garage
It’s unlikely for your nearby neighbors to be able to open your doors randomly.
However, this happens from time to time when your neighbor’s programmed code is the same as yours.
When you open the garage, the remote and the opener share code to verify that your remote control is the one opening the garage.
If, in a stroke of luck, your neighbor’s remote control shares the random code with your opener, they can open the garage without your permission.
It may take a while to reset the code, so contact professionals to recalibrate the opener and the remote.
Set an appointment date with our team!
We are Lone Star Garage Doors Austin, and we offer our repair services to everybody.
Our team has expertise and experience in handling control problems by the garage.
We want you to have a safe garage and avoid experiencing a garage that opens randomly by choice.
That’s extremely dangerous for you and your residence’s safety.
We offer our repair solutions to this concern.
If, on the other hand, you finally decide to set up a new door to the garage, give our team a call.
We guarantee only long-lasting garage door installation in Austin.
Book your job with our team.