How To Force A Garage Door

This video from sears partsdirect shows how to check the garage door for smooth travel adjust force settings and test the new settings to make sure the door closes safely.

How to force a garage door.

The first electric garage door opener was introduced in 1926 but. From inside your garage close your garage door. These are called the limit and force adjusters respectively. Check your door opening force.

Locate the open force and close force controls to the right of the travel limit and set buttons on the power head unit control panel. If your garage door is not coming down all the way or if you have a garage door closing and then bouncing back up you may have to adjust your. Check the space under the bottom door edge to be sure it is tight against the floor surface. The device he s created dubbed the opensesame can open a garage door using a brute force attack in less than 10 seconds.

Your garage door motor unit has controls for both the distance that the door comes up or down as well as the force with which it moves. A garage door opener with an improperly adjusted closing force can damage the door or worse injure a child or pet that accidentally walks under the door. Adjust the close force control to change the amount of force your garage door opener uses to close the door. Before we get into the details of the vulnerability let s explain a bit about how automatic garage door openers developed.

If when closing your door its bottom edge contacts the floor and then reverses direction and raises again you will need to adjust your close force.