How To Adjust Your Automatic Garage Door

Have a helper steady the ladder.

How to adjust your automatic garage door.

The limit the force and the safety reverse. Identify the switches by the up or open. Adjust the lift cable to make fine adjustments try adjusting the lifting cable instead of the spring. How to adjust garage door height.

To avoid entrapment perform the 1 inch reversing test after any repairs or adjustments are made to the garage door or opener. Simply place a 2 x 4 flat on the floor in the door s path before activating the door. Place a stepladder beneath the box portion of the garage door opener. With the door propped open take the s hook out of the support and tighten or loosen the cable as needed.

Step 1 adjust the limit. Set up your step ladder beneath the garage door opener being certain the ladder is level and stable. The owner s manual will explain how to adjust the force sensitivity. Look for two limit adjustment screws.

These are normally plastic and will be marked either up and. Turn the adjustment screw on the limit clockwise if the door doesn t fully close. You can do almost anything all you have to do is try. How to adjust the travel limits of your garage door if it won t close all the way.

Locate the limit adjustments screws located on the side of the opener. How to adjust a garage door to close completely. To open the door completely adjust garage door opener by turning the limit counterclockwise.