Garage door goes back down (opener, paint, ceiling, installing)

[Nattaty25]

Sorry if there is a thread for this already. Whenever we open the garage door, either from the button on the wall or the door opener in our car, the door will start going up then back down.

Also when we try to close it, it'll start going down then back up.....

We already had maintenance come check (we're renting), but of course the door worked perfectly when maintenance was here.

But last night it went back to not working again.
Ive been researching the issue online; I'm assuming it must be the sensor.

When maintenance came, they said it could be dirt or something blocking the sensors, so he swept and cleaned around the bottom of the door.

I'm not sure how old the sensors are. The rental company trnds to never keep up with the properties...I have a lot of maintenance issues with this house.

Anyway so does anyone know why it goes back to not operating properly? This began several weeks ago and has gotten worse. It takes a while to get maintenance scheduled....

[K'ledgeBldr]

I suggest you get on the schedule as soon as possible-
No reason for you to mess with it- if you do further damage its replacement could be on you.

Make sure you emphasize the inconvenience of not being able to use the garage- perhaps that will light a fire under someone's ass!

[Nattaty25]

Yea i said its EXTREMELY frustrating having to pull out, park, manually close it, walk out the house...but why does it work sometimes and not others?!?!?

I WISH it messed up when that maintenance guy was here so he could see it.

I'll call them today.

Ugh but could sensors eventually go bad??

[Nattaty25]

Well I called them and got the maintenance guy's personal number. He said he's booked for a week but he'll get back to me.

[grampaTom]

I have noticed that if I hold my garage door opener remote button down just a wee bit too long it does the same thing.

[Ted Bear]

Likely a frayed, or a loose, controller wire...very tricky to track. Just takes time and patience, but it will be there somewhere. The vibration from the door makes it worse, or intermittent, or frustratingly, not at all...until the next time. Extreme patience to track every wire...and then do it again...and it will show up somewhere.

[movinon]

Mine did that when the controller unit on the ceiling was going out. It eventually quit altogether. It was 18 years old at the time. Since the ex had backed into the door on three separate occasions when he was having a hissy fit about bad golf rounds, the whole door was ready to be replaced anyway. I did the entire set-up at once. No problems since then.

[petsandgardens]

Ours does that quite often. Didn't know it could really be fixed. I just "rock it", as I say. I'm good at it. Say, I want it to go down. It starts going down, stops, starts to go back up. I don't let it. I stop it right there. So it's already got a little headway down. I push the button again to go down. Sometimes it's a bit of a repeat repeat but it really doesn't take long and it gets into gear. I do this with the remotes or at the side door.

So, it can be fixed. Hmmm. Maybe I'll quit rocking and start spending a little.

[Ultrarunner]

With the opener disconnected mechanically from the door see if the door moves freely up and down by hand...

I managed a rental with intermediate door problems... it had a wood door that became much heavier when it rained... plus the wood swelled a little... all summer and winter the door was fine... rainy season it was 50/50 if it would fully open...

Several coats of paint, adjusting and lubricating the track and rollers plus installing a commercial rated opener was the cure...

[rrtechno]

Sensors should not affect the opening of the door. They should only reverse the door if something breaks the beam on the way down to prevent crushing.