My Garage Door Will Only Open A Few Inches

A broken torsion spring will also cause the door to slam closed instead of closing gently.

My garage door will only open a few inches. We will now want to take a look at the garage door springs. 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. In the mean time you should be able to open it with two strong people and then once it is open have a third person set it ladders at each end and carefully lower the door onto the ladders then pull your car out. If the door does not open manually.

If the door is working properly it should be easy to lift by hand. Garage door only travels a little way and then reverses does your garage door only travel a little way 6 inches or so and then reverse. This indicates that the springs torsion springs in the case of the photo above are working properly and are not the issue. The photo eye will be about 4 6 inches off of the ground for most doors with an eye that is about the size of a pea.

If this isn t lit check for a tripped breaker in the main panel or a tripped gfci outlet. Disconnect the opener from the door itself like so and open it manually a few times. If the door starts to open but won t move more than a few inches the torsion spring may be broken. You will have to call a professional garage door service tech.

My garage door opens about six inches and stops i press the my garage door opens about six inches and stops i press the button twice so it will stop going down and then is goes up another 6 inches or so. 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. This read more.