Garage Door Shuts Then Opens

Disconnect the control station.

Garage door shuts then opens.

As is the case with so many issues at the home there s no one reason why your garage door closes then opens. They are misaligned this is the most likely problem and the most common issue with garage door openers. You have an open limit and a close limit on your garage door opener. As these wires short against the housing the electrical impulse causes the door opener to activate.

If these can t see each other when the door is almost shut it will send a signal to the garage door motor to open back up. The solution is usually one or more of the following. You push the button to close the garage door. In the down direction if the limit is set beyond the point at which the door closes fully the door will hit the floor and act as if it is hitting something and the safety feature tells it to reverse.

Remove the bell wire from the single button control station s terminals and operate the garage door opener from the remotes. Your garage door sensor works by having two photo sensitive devices on either side of the garage door. The symptom of this is a garage door that is in constant motion opening fully then immediately descending only to start the same cycle again. A careless or rushed parking job can cause the car s bumper to block the sensor.

If your garage door is closing fully and then reversing to open again then it may be due to a problem with the close limit switch. This is almost always the result of a dirty or obstructed safety feature. These limits set the distance the door will open or close before stopping. If your garage door won t open or close the problem could be a bent track a broken torsion spring or a bad capacitor int he motor housing.

Your travel down setting needs to be adjusted. The sensors are dirty wipe lenses with a clean soft cloth. Here s a rundown of some of the possible reasons this can be happening. If it closes only partway the safety sensors are usually responsible clean the lenses or realign them and make sure there are no obstacles blocking the beam.

Open the garage door and watch it closely as it opens. If this solves the problem then the control station is faulty or there is a short circuit in the wire. It goes partway down reverses direction and goes back up again. Your garage door is programmed to travel a certain distance before it closes.

When your liftmaster garage door opener opens and closes by itself here are the troubleshooting tips you need to follow. This is not a common problem at all but it could happen. If the door closes while holding the button pressed you are likely having one of the following issues with your safety sensors.