Garage Door Not Closing Without Holding Button Down

Besides longneck s excellent points if the garage door or opener is a new installation and has not worked before it could be that the opener s internal tension sensor is not correctly set.

Garage door not closing without holding button down. Check for interference from adjacent photo eye sensors of any brand. Garage door will not close without holding down the wall button. Wireless remote works open the door but will not close the light out front starts flickering when we try to it with the wireless remote so we go inside push the button on the wall and hold it till it closes the door all the way. If the door can be reasonably easily opened and closed by hand but the opener balks at closing the door the tension setting probably needs to be increased.

Door starts down then stops before it is closed. Garage doors sometimes seem to have a mind of their own often deciding when and how far they want to open or close. Neither wireless remotes work. I ve made sure there are no obstacles and that the sensors are aligned properly.

After i hold the button down to close it the sensor lights come back on. With the winter coming on i would like to have once again the convenience of opening the door remotely and closing the door using the push button. When you continuously hold down the close button in the garage you are over riding this system. Not a small light is the big ones out front that are flickering not the one in back t of the motor.

Eye on both side of the door is not on i have to hold down the bottom in the garage to bring the door down. I have disconnected the safety devises and still have the same issue. You will find that the door will only move an inch or so in the close direction and reverse. When the door is up the sensor lights are off.

An intermittent alignment issue with the sensors or damaged sensor wiring or a failing sensor could sometimes make it impossible for the system to determine if anything is under the door and again it will prevent the door from closing normally. Only the wall button will close it. If your garage door is closing fully and then reversing to. My garage door will not close unless i hold the button down.

The transmitters remotes will not work to close the garage door. When this happens your garage door will only close by holding down on the wall button or wall console until the door fully closes. Press and hold the wall console button until the garage door is completey closed.