If your garage door won t close all the way the problem could be due to a blocked photo eye.
Garage door bows in the middle when closing.
If you look at the rail you can see it flex bend up.
The door closed on a box about a year ago but it still worked fine.
Door openers that attach to doors pull on the upper middle of the top section causing the center of the section to bow over time.
In order to fix this you ll want to make small changes to the close limit setting until the door opener knows to stop once the door has reached the floor.
Open the door by hand and when it is at its peak measure it and make sure the bottom of the rail clears by 1.
The majority of garage doors manufactured since the early 1990s are equipped with this safety feature.
But when you press the remote to close the door three panels pass fine but the fourth sticks or binds but the door does not stop trying to close.
And yes the opener track will have a slope this is normal and in the instructions probably.
Doors without openers have no brace preventing warping and swelling at the top of the section.
At the back where the motor is the opener should actually hang down below the door.
My chamberlain garage door opener rail flexes.
Garage door problems happen to everybody.
In other cases the weight of the garage door in conjunction with an automatic garage door that is attached to the center of the door may be the cause of bowing.
There are several factors that may cause a garage door to bow in the center.
Any tips on how to correct this.
My garage door chi 2285 bows in the top middle of the door when the last pannel starts down.
Garage door struts are available at home improvement centers to fix your bowed garage door.
The door opens fine but when it closes the first two panels go down with ease but the third panel from the bottom starts to bow in the middle where the arm of the opener attaches the door.
The photo eye components consist of two pieces that align face to face across each side of the garage door roughly four feet above the ground.
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.
