My Garage Door Will Only Open A Few Inches

The photo eye will be about 4 6 inches off of the ground for most doors with an eye that is about the size of a pea.

My garage door will only open a few inches.

Garage door only travels a little way and then reverses does your garage door only travel a little way 6 inches or so and then reverse. Disconnect the opener from the door itself like so and open it manually a few times. In the mean time you should be able to open it with two strong people and then once it is open have a third person set it ladders at each end and carefully lower the door onto the ladders then pull your car out. I would encourage you to test the mechanism of the door itself to completely rule out any damage or blockages.

This indicates that the springs torsion springs in the case of the photo above are working properly and are not the issue. The most likely cause for a garage door to only open a few inches when hitting the garage door opener remote control or the garage door opener wall button is. Most garage doors from the past 15 20 years have a photo eye which detects if a person or object is blocking the door from lowering all the way. You will have to call a professional garage door service tech.

We will now want to take a look at the garage door springs. If this isn t lit check for a tripped breaker in the main panel or a tripped gfci outlet. My garage door opens about six inches and stops i press the my garage door opens about six inches and stops i press the button twice so it will stop going down and then is goes up another 6 inches or so. In order to fix this you ll want to make small changes to the close limit setting until the door opener knows to stop once the door has reached the floor.

If the door starts to open but won t move more than a few inches the torsion spring may be broken. If the door is working properly it should be easy to lift by hand. This read more.