Garage Door Keeps Bouncing Back Up

If you find that your garage door is reversing before even hitting the floor then it could be possible that there is a problem with the close force setting.

Garage door keeps bouncing back up.

Your travel down setting needs to be adjusted. A careless or rushed parking job can cause the car s bumper to block the sensor. Bad top oilite bearing just under drive sprocket on opener power head. Leaves twigs stuck on bottom section breaking beam.

Possible reasons why your garage door hits the floor then goes back up. Your garage door sensor works by having two photo sensitive devices on either side of the garage door. This setting basically controls how much force is allowed when closing the garage door. Sometimes the sensors will be in alignment and just as the door gets close to being shut it will vibrate enough to push one sensor off.

Most likely there is an obstruction or motor sensitivity is incorrect. You push the button to close the garage door. Missing wheels on door rollers. Sometimes it can be torsion springs have relaxed some of its tension and door has become too heavy.

This is almost always the result of a dirty or obstructed safety feature. As is the case with so many issues at the home there s no one reason why your garage door closes then opens. Turn it one complete turn clockwise. Bad pillow block bearing on torsion tube.

Here s a rundown of some of the possible reasons this can be happening. You want the one on the left. Check how door operates in manual mode and run it up and down by hand feeling for heavy weight grabbing or binding points. It goes partway down reverses direction and goes back up again.