Garage Door Closes Slightly Then Opens

Below are three reasons why your garage door opens on its own and some quick fixes you can try.

Garage door closes slightly then opens.

If your garage door opens and suddenly stops it might be because of your logic board. Most garage door openers have an open and close limit control. If the door stops short of closing lengthen the close limit by turning the control knob in the direction indicated usually counterclockwise. You might need to consider replacing it if your door is not working properly or you may purchase a new opener.

Try opening the garage door with the remote and see what happens. It goes partway down reverses direction and goes back up again. You push the button to close the garage door. Your garage door is programmed to travel a certain distance before it closes.

This is almost always the result of a dirty or obstructed safety feature. The logic board receives and responds signals to any remote. Do any necessary repairs reconnect the opener and try it out. Once the door was in the open position i re engaged the carriage and the opener closed it just fine no issues.

Your travel down setting needs to be adjusted. It s obviously not the lasers or an alignment issue. The door would not open more than 6 or so and then close again. Any thoughts on what might be causing this strange issue.

Whether you re using the passcode entry the buttons inside the garage or your remote opener the openers and the garage door itself must be on the same frequency. As is the case with so many issues at the home there s no one reason why your garage door closes then opens. You may think the door is working ok because it feels ok but you should still check all components to be sure. In order to fix this you ll want to make small changes to the close limit setting until the door opener knows to stop once the door has reached the floor.

This will cause the trolley to move into position and reconnect to the garage door. Garage doors use radio frequencies to open and close. These steps should fix most doors. They are usually on the motor housing and you access them by opening a panel or removing the housing cover.

Now press the remote control. Here s a rundown of some of the possible reasons this can be happening. I had to release the carriage and manually slide it open.