Pick up a tape measure and stretch it across the inside of your garage door opening, then up from the floor to the top of the opening. Now measure from the top of the opening to the ceiling, and from the edge of the opening to the nearest side wall. Those few numbers, more than…
Your door is stuck, your car is inside, and you are standing in the garage scrolling search results on your phone. The first few listings all look alike: “Garage Door Repair” followed by your city’s name, a 24/7 badge, five stars, and a service call price that sounds almost too reasonable. You tap one, someone…
Stand in the driveway and run your palm across the bottom section of your garage door at about knee height. If you can feel a shallow dip where a bumper, a basketball, or a trash can caught it, or a sharp crease running sideways across the steel, you are probably wondering the same thing most…
You backed out of the garage a second too early, and the rear bumper tapped the bottom of the door as it was still rising. It did not seem like much. But the next time you closed the door, it groaned, jerked, and stopped with one side hanging lower than the other, and now you…
Step back to the driveway and look at the bottom edge of your garage door. If one side is sitting a few inches higher than the other, or the door stopped halfway with one corner hanging lower, you are probably looking at a cable problem. Walk inside and check the bottom corners of the door.…
Stand in your garage with the lights out and point your phone’s flashlight up at the opener rail on the ceiling. Follow the rail back from the door a foot or two and you will see a cord hanging down, usually with a red handle on the end. That cord is the only thing standing…
