Garage Door Will Not Go Down When Cold

This issue usually arises with brand new garage doors that were just installed or older models that may need to be reset.

Garage door will not go down when cold.

Eye on both side of the door is not on i have to hold down the bottom in the garage to bring the door down. Sometimes you ll notice that your garage door closes all the way and then immediately goes back up instead of staying in the closed position. If i let go of the bottom the door stops. October 22 2019 at 9 23 pm.

The garage door limit settings isn t set properly. Cold makes the space between molecules lessen which makes objects such as garage doors contract. When there is an issue with your safety sensors the opener will interpret this as an obstruction and refuse to close the door. Check them to make sure they re correctly in place and if not adjust them so that they are.

If the issue is with the sensors you ll likely find that you can use the garage door remote or wall mounted switch to open the door but not to close it. The cold of winter can sometimes result in your garage door closing but being unable to open well. One of the most common reasons a garage door won t open in cold weather is that the metal has contracted. Door doesnt open or close until i unplug.

This is almost always the result of a dirty or obstructed safety feature. There is one on each side of the door. Overtime these lenses can become coated with grime dirt and even sawdust. Now if your garage door still won t go down after you ve made sure the sensors are properly aligned and there s no obstructions you ll want to take a damp cloth and wipe down the lenses of the sensors.

Wipe them very gently with a soft cloth to avoid upsetting the calibration. You push the button to close the garage door. If the door goes up but you can t make it go down you probably need to adjust the sensors. It goes partway down reverses direction and goes back up again.

If you re still having problems then the cold temperatures may have caused the brackets that hold the runners for the garage door in place to become misaligned due to contraction of the metal in the cold weather.