Openers
Openers & Access
Moving into a new home often means an opener with no remotes, a keypad nobody knows the number for and a wall button that may or may not work. Resetting the unit and pairing fresh devices sorts all three at once.
Which one do I need?
- For a few days there was a grinding sound whenever the door started moving.Garage Door Opener Diagnosis and Repair
- The chain hangs in a loop under the rail and slaps against it on every cycle.Chain-Drive Opener Repair
- The door used to glide up with a soft hum.Belt-Drive Opener Repair
- You want the ceiling back.Garage Door Opener Replacement
- Since shelving went up along the garage wall, the door will not close and both sensor lights are dead.Photo-Eye Sensor Alignment or Replacement
- After the move, the previous owner's remotes are somewhere in another city and the keypad on the outside wall wants a code nobody wrote down.Garage Door Remote and Keypad Programming
Openers & Access
Operators, safety sensors, controls, and access systems.
Garage Door Opener Diagnosis and Repair
The story before the tools
Diagnosis begins with what you saw and heard. When did the door last behave, and what changed between then and now: a power outage, a storm, a new light bulb, a shovel leaning against the sensor, someone pulling the red cord? Does the motor hum, click, run or stay silent?
Does the fault follow one control or all of them? Is the door stranded up or stranded down, and does it move at all by hand? A few minutes of this on the phone or at the door points the technician at one part of the system instead of all of it, and often shortens the visit considerably.