Garage Door Only Goes Down While Holding Button

They are denoted by a garage door with an arrow pointing up or down.

Garage door only goes down while holding button. Until it completely closes and the remotes only make the door move. When this happens your garage door will only close by holding down on the wall button or wall console until the door fully closes. They can easily become mis aligned due to bumping twisting and loose mounting. This method is the only way to override the safety and close the door.

While you might look to your remote as the issue this very specific issue is a problem with the garage door itself or more specifically the safety sensors at the bottom. To troubleshoot this issue. This is almost always the result of a dirty. One of the sensor lights will usually be blinking when there is a malfunction.

Find a step ladder and place it beneath your liftmaster garage door opener. You are overriding the infrared beam sensor when you hold down the wall button continuously while the garage door is closing. So if you have to do this to close the door it means the sensor is malfunctioning. Any transmitter like a handheld clicker or outdoor keypad will also not work to close the door if there is a problem with the sensor.

After a little frustrating experimentation you discover that the door will only completely close when you hold down the button on the wall switch. A small amount and the door returns that is the sign of the safety sensor system. It goes partway down reverses direction and goes back up again. By wade shaddy updated december 19 2018 you push the button to close the garage door.