Garage Door Opener Jerks Does Not Open

Shut off the power to the garage door opener.

Garage door opener jerks does not open.

If you have an automatic garage door opener unplug it now and disconnect it from the door using the pull cord. You should see daylight under the garage door after it closes but the jerk will disappear. Once disconnected operate the door manually and tell me if it opens easily and freely with no heaviness or binding. Turn the power back on and the door should open and close normally.

When the door is lowered the spring winds up tightly creating a pulling force that helps lift the door up. Broken springs are the most common issue at hand whenever a service person is called to a residence to repair a garage door. Contact us for garage door spring repair. Many garage doors have a powerful torsion spring located horizontally above the door.

Check the door s electric eye. Also the opener may work sometimes but on other occasions it does not respond. A properly balanced door should open easily and stay where you let go of it at any point along its travel. I accidentally activated the opening of my automatic garage door even though it was physically locked with the lockbar at the side of the door.

A power outage or surge particularly one that results from a storm may either cause a temporary malfunction or permanently damage the circuit board. A faulty circuit board will cause the garage door opener to make clicking sounds. You will need a set of steel bars called winding bars to insert into the tightening cone onto the end of the spring. Use a screwdriver to tighten the wire.

Please disconnect the door from the opener by pulling on the emergancy disconnect cord. If the garage door is not opening but the motor is running the problem might rest on the springs in your garage door assembly.