11 reasons your Woodstock garage door isn’t opening or closing

You’re chatting with a friend about making plans as you pull in the driveway of your Woodstock home. Without really thinking about it, you open the app on your phone that controls the garage door and hit the button that will start it rising before you even reach it. In fact, you’ve timed this pantomime to the point that you can just keep on rolling right on into the garage.

Today, however, you have to hit the brakes hard as you very nearly drive right into the garage door. ‘WHAT THE HECK HAPPENED?!!!’

It’s not what happened; it’s what didn’t happen. The garage door did not go up when you pushed the button. You were planning to run in and change before driving over to The Woodstock Square to meet your friend for coffee at Ethereal Confections. But you hit the button again and again and still it sits, not budging at all.

You don’t have time for this. You leave the car in the driveway and go around to the front door. You’ll have to worry about the garage door later. Actually, you’ll probably need to worry about the garage door opener later.

There are a number of reasons that your garage door isn’t opening. Here is a list of 11 possibilities that could explain the problem:

• Somehow, the plug is unplugged and there’s no power
• The limit setting requires adjustment
• The door is off one or both of its tracks
• A torsion spring is broken (without it, the door weighs too much for the opener to open)
• There’s a problem with your remote control or app
• A cable has snapped or is loose
• The disconnect is engaged
• The door is locked
• There is something in the way of the door so it won’t open
• The assembly requires a sensitivity adjustment
• The photoelectric sensor is broken or blocked

That’s quite a list of possible problems. Your best bet is to go through the front door and, if you have time, call a qualified garage door technician before you go meet your friend for dinner. Better garage door repair services offer emergency calls. Or, if it can wait, they’ll come out the next day and put the garage door opener, on your Woodstock garage, back in working order.