Your garage door wont open... We have all been there, and if you have not we are sure the thought must have crossed your mind, so what to do? do you call a garage door service company?.
Not just yet; here we will offer some useful tips on how to diagnose the problem which may be as simple as a dead battery or as large as a burnt out motor.
Lets start with the checklist:
1) Check your garage door remote batteries, just because you see a little red led you are not guaranteed that your batteries are not the culprit, in most cases where garage doors wont open its the remote batteries in-order to rule out batteries we must replace them.
After replacing the batteries your door still wont open.
2) check to make sure your power in the garage is working sometimes a circuit breaker will trip cutting power to the garage door motor, If the light on the motor turns on then the motor has power.
After making sure the garage door opener motor has power and the door still wont open.
3) unplug and replug the garage door motor, try it with the remote and with the wall mounted button, take note if there is any noise or movement from the motor or the door.
After making sure the garage door opener motor has power and both the remote and the wall mounted button the still wont open the garage door.
4) Check that the door is not stuck, there are many reasons that a garage door can get jammed or stuck, garage doors have an emergency release close to the center top of the garage door, Pull the release and lift the door by hand, if the door opens then we know its the motor or the remote.
At this point its best to call a professional garage door repair / garage door replacement company, as we have eliminated all of the smaller items like batteries and circuit breakers, and now the tracks, rollers, and motor need to be diagnosed to determine where the issue is and to figure out if its just a little grease and realignment of the garage door tracks, of if a new garage door opener motor needs to be installed.
We would love to come to your home, look at the issue and offer a free no obligation estimate to fix it, we have teams ready, if you live in Anaheim we have our award winning garage door Anaheim team ready to serve you, and if you live in San Diego, we have the best garage door repair and installers on our garage door opener san diego team, the same goes for our garage door orange county team and our garage door los angeles team, all told we have assembled the nations largest team of garage door experts. All we do is repair and replace garage doors, and offer always free estimates where we detail all of our garage doors prices so that there is no surprises halfway through.