Garage Door Won T Stay Up

This is almost always the result of a dirty or obstructed safety feature.

Garage door won t stay up. Test the garage door to see if it stays closed. Check the motor housing mounted to the ceiling of your garage. When it opens it will go all the way up and stay for about 5 seconds then slowly drop back down about 6 8 doesn t do it every time or with any rhyme or reason. Start by rotating the down limit screw or knob one complete turn in the minus direction.

The valve on the hot water line to my washer is fine if fully open or if fully. Water valve leaks if not fully opened or closed. You push the button to close the garage door. How to adjust manual garage doors to stay up step 1.

Locate the cable clip that is attached to an s hook toward the front of the horizontal track. The main reason for this is that the springs aren t holding as they should you will need to have your springs adjusted to give your garage the ability to hold the weight of the door. Having a door which won t stay open or which droops when at the height of its lift can be troublesome. It goes partway down reverses direction and goes back up again.

Raise the garage door up to its fully open position.