Garage Door Not Closing Unless Hold Button

Depending on the brand.

Garage door not closing unless hold button.

When this happens your garage door will only close by holding down on the wall button or wall console until the door fully closes. First check the sensor lights. My garage door will not close unless i hold the button down. My genie garage door closes fine on all occasions but it won t open unless i hold the wall button down.

When the door is up the sensor lights are off. Turn off the sure lock aka vacation mode on the wall console check if limits are properly set check the door balance condition and door spring check opening force control or force settings. You will find that the door will only move an inch or so in the close direction and reverse. Here is what happening.

If anything interrupts this beam of light the garage door will not close and the ceiling light on the opener mechanism will flash as mentioned in the previous step. The first was checking and removing the light in the opener certain lights or looseness of fittings can cause frequencies that can disrupt the remote signal and is in play when the door is freshly opened but not when it has been closed for a while which explains the asymmetry. Clutter or obstructions that block the sensor are the first problems to look for if your door won t close or in extreme cases open at all. The transmitters remotes will not work to close the garage door.

I ve made sure there are no obstacles and that the sensors are aligned properly. One sends a beam of infra red light to the other. After i hold the button down to close it the sensor lights come back on.