Adjust the safety and operation of your garage door periodically. Garage doors are so commonplace that most people don’t give them much thought. The problem is that they are very heavy objects with many moving parts attached to your home. An incorrectly adjusted garage door opener and sensor can cause damage to the garage door, motor, lift mechanism, your house or worse – a person or pet. A few minutes every six months or so will keep your garage door functioning properly. Adjust the garage door opener mechanism. On the garage door motor, there will be two knobs or dials to adjust the opener and the reverse sensor. Refer to the owner’s manual to determine which is which. The adjustment for the opener will determine how fast the motor raises and lowers the door and where it stops. Adjust the dial or knob until pressing the opener causes it to stop raising the door as it becomes about even with the top of the garage door opening. Adjusting it beyond that will cause it to raise and lower too fast and too far, placing extra strain on the motor.

Place a small piece of lumber or other hard object under the door while it is open. Press the control button to close the door. It should reverse immediately upon striking the obstruction. Adjust the reverse control until the door begins to reverse as soon as it comes into contact with the obstruction. Setting it too sensitive will cause a reversal too easily if a roller hits something or gets too tight. If it's not sensitive enough, the door won’t reverse, creating a potential hazard. Clean and adjust the photoelectric eye, which also reverses the garage door. Make sure the eye is aligned with the reflector at the opposite side, or else the door won’t close properly. Test it by placing something in front of the eye and testing the closer again. Things You Will Need Piece of lumber Tip Warning References GarageDoors101: Garage Door Opener Safety Photo Credits Jupiterimages/Comstock/Getty Images Suggest a Correction Here's how it works: Anybody can ask a question The best answers are voted up and rise to the top

Only during summer and only when the sun is close to the horizon the light from the sun confuses my garage door opener and in order to close the door I have to hold down the wired button which is a real pain if I'm leaving. A friend suggested I use toilet paper rolls (or maybe some PVC) to shield the sensor from the sun and direct the beam to the other sensor and that's a good idea but it'll mean I have to change how the sensors are mounted to the track and move them out a bit. Just moving them back might solve the problem (since they'll be blocked by the walls).Is this a common problem? You probably only have to shield the sensor just enough to put a shadow over it (and not let the sun hit it directly). I would think a small piece of cardboard taped to the side or top (or both) of the sensor that is getting hit with the sun should do it. Another way would be to block the sun from outside of the garage by maybe planting a shrub (test it out by putting your garbage can in line to block the sun when it is low in the sky and see if it works).

You could swap the emitter and detector units so that the emitter is on the sunlit side. It doesn't matter if the emitter is being blasted by sunlight; only the detector needs to be protected. Of course you might just be changing the time of day of your problem if the other side of the door is sunlit at a different time. screen door repair santa cruz Don't forget to swap the wiring at the opener unit as well of course.garage door repair houston yelp I had the same issue. craftsman garage door opener 2000I tried shading both the sensor and the emitter with card board and toilet paper rolls. outdoor furniture for sale gauteng

Sometimes it worked and sometimes it didn't. Today it wouldn't cooperate at all. I even tried re-aiming the sensors. I was able to prove that it was the sun causing the issue by closing the door, disengaging the door from the opener, and activating the opener. It worked fine with the door closed. pre hung doors at home depotSo....after giving it some thought..... fingerprint door locks ukI decided to find some glass cleaner. bi fold door hardware packI cleaned the sensor and the emitter. After that it worked fine even in direct sunlight without any type of shading. Hope this idiot fix helps!!!! Placing a tube around the sensor/emitter might work, but it sounds like that would easily break if kicked or struck by something passing by.

Perhaps a polarized filter for a camera would be taped or somehow fixed to the unit. Amazon has this one for $11.99. I used an old pair of polarized plastic safety sunglasses that were $6.00 new. I cut one lens off and slid it behind the sensor so that it covers the lens: no more sun problem stopping the beam so the door now works. What a pain that must be. Could you raise or lower the sensors a few inches up or down to make it less inline with the sun? I agree with Jeff, all you need is just enough to make a shadow. Really not much else you can do, other than disable the sensors which would obviously dangerous and not recommended. I placed a semiclear plastic food service glove over the receiver has worked so far. I placed a piece of black construction paper around the receiver. This helped me to solve the problem. Thank you for your interest in this question. Because it has attracted low-quality or spam answers that had to be removed, posting an answer now requires 10 reputation on this site (the association bonus does not count).