Openers
Openers & Access
Lost a remote? Moved into a home with a keypad you cannot use? Opener straining against a heavy door? The opener and access services deal with the electronic side of the garage.
Which one do I need?
- Nothing.Garage Door Opener Diagnosis and Repair
- The rail shakes when the door runs.Chain-Drive Opener Repair
- The belt looks fine from a distance, but up close the rubber has cracked across the back in dozens of places and, in one spot, you can see the steel cords showing through.Belt-Drive Opener Repair
- During the ice storm the power was off for two days.Garage Door Opener Replacement
- Someone backed the car in a little too far, a bin or a bicycle brushed the track, and since then the door starts to close and comes back up.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 two small eyes near the floor
The photo-eye sensors are inspected together with their wiring. Each sensor carries a small indicator; a steady light on both means the beam is aligned, while a flicker, a dark light or one that goes out when the bracket is nudged points to misalignment, a loose mount or a damaged wire. The technician sights along the beam, looks for obstructions, cobwebs, frost and low sun on the receiving lens, checks that the sensors sit no higher than about fifteen centimetres off the floor, and traces the wire back to the head unit for staples, kinks and chew marks.
Sensor faults are the single commonest reason a door refuses to close.