Garage Door Keeps Stopping On The Way Down

You push the button to close the garage door.

Garage door keeps stopping on the way down.

Lubricating the springs hinges and other metal parts can help your door to move easily. Usually the sensors will only prevent an overhead door from continuing down. Another reason that your garage door won t open all the way in cold weather is probably that the metal has contracted. How to troubleshoot a garage door that stops halfway down things you will need.

First thing to do before calling in a repair person is to manually check out the operation. In cold temperature the space between molecules reduces making the metal shrinks. If this is the reason your garage door is not functioning properly the lubricant must be applied. In a typical situation the motor for your garage door opener should stop running once the door has closed.

I suspect your overhead door has some friction conflicts. Repeated operation of the garage door as you make the adjustments may cause the opener. The motor continues to run after the garage door is closed. If you find that it keeps running this can present a problem in your system.

Stopping on the way up would be unusual. Garage door opener keeps going back up. It may be your garage door sensor. The garage door keeps going up and down.

Lubricate the track with silicone spray or. It goes partway down reverses direction and goes back up again.