A garage door opener can malfunction for many reasons.   Things like a burnt motherboard, bad gear opener, or a motor that doesn’t function.  All these things affect your garage door.  A malfunctioning opener will prevent your door from opening and closing as usual.  Call a garage door professional at Great American Garage Doors.  Delaying this repair can cause further damage to your garage door.  An experienced technician can diagnose your garage door problems and recommend the best option for your garage door.

When you install a new garage door or opener, your sensors can be out of alignment. Or a garage door’s sensitivity can be set too low or too high, and prevent your door from closing. We highly recommend you preview the manufacturer’s directions to understand your opener. By contacting a garage door professional, you can save time and have your opener functioning as it’s made to be.Garage door sensors may simply get dirty and prevent your opener from functioning. Garage door tracks are known to cause sensor issues. There are a variety of reasons for the sensors malfunctioning.

Garage door cables coming off or disconnected happens for a multitude of reasons.  A broken torsion spring or even cables coming out on their own is very common.  When a cable snaps, it poses a major life-threatening problem that can seriously hurt a person standing nearby or even damage a car or wall. Call a garage door professional to preview your cables and garage door and complete necessary repairs.

Sometimes an unplugged power source open causes confusion and assumptions that your door is broken.  Check your electric outlet that the opener is plugged into to determine if this is the case.  This is a common problem that causes confusion and assumptions by homeowners.  Make this a priority by checking your opener connection to save you time and even money.  

We understand the difficulty this brings you.  There are a multitude of reasons why your garage door will not open, but the main ones are related to your garage door spring or opener. Springs and openers become defective when they reach their maximum life.  Most people can’t determine if they have reached maximum life in their garage door.   A technician can inspect this for you and fix your issues to get you back on your way.  Other reasons, such as a broken cable or ineffective rollers.  Or a garage door opener sensor can also be attributed to your door not opening.  We understand that your time is valuable and access to your garage is as well.  Allow us the opportunity to solve this for you.

If your garage door is moving slower than normal, it can be for a multitude of reasons; from your springs, opener, rollers or any other moving parts.  The fix can be a simple fix such as lubricating a moving hinge, or it can be as difficult as balancing a garage door spring.  Which requires knowledge and expertise.  Don’t worry, we are here to help you diagnose a problem that may be easy for certain people and difficult for others.  A garage door professional can help simplify the process by inspecting all moving parts and determining what is causing the problem.  Your garage door is a large moving part that shouldn’t be taken for granted.  Having a professional diagnose and resolve the problem is what we are committed to.

Your garage door is a moving part that will generate various sounds when its moving.  If your door doesn’t sound like it normally would.  Things such as grinding, grating, rattling or rumbling can be a multitude of things, such as expired springs, bent coils, loose chains or worn out rollers.   Reach out to us to allow us to diagnose your door.  

This issue occurs for different reasons.  It could be a variety of things, such as your garage door springs, openers, or even rollers.  We’ve seen doors that jerk from things such as the shifting of a garage door track.  Jerking your garage door can have a multitude of reasons.  Trying to diagnose on your own can be tricky.  Don’t diagnose your door on your own.  Give us the opportunity to resolve your garage door problems with simplicity and comfort.

Most people are not familiar with whether a garage door needs repair.  Your garage door endures wear and tear and requires maintenance as well as repair over time.  Maintaining your garage door will increase the life of your door.  Things as simple as lubricating moving parts and replacing moving parts increases the life of your garage door.  We are committed to helping you maintain your garage door and its life.  We understand that a garage door is an extension to your home and is used often like a front door.  A garage door technician can examine your door and make recommendations in a matter of minutes due to their expertise versus having you spend your precious time that can be spent doing things that you enjoy.  We offer great promotions and offer to inspect and maintain your door.   Reach out to us by phone or click the book button.