How to open my garage door

[crash330]

Originally Posted by littlelou

there should be a rope attached and if you pull the rope down, it will release the door, of course you have to manually lift AND HOLD it open and slowly let back down, but you can get your car out.

Just remember, there are no springs to assist in the lifting and it is HEAVY!!!

You should also have a manual slide lock that can be used when the power goes out to lock your garage door. Just remember to unlock it when the power comes on or you can burn up the motor in the opener.

[Bydand]

Originally Posted by crash330

You should also have a manual slide lock that can be used when the power goes out to lock your garage door. Just remember to unlock it when the power comes on or you can burn up the motor in the opener.

Burn up the drive belt and toast the top panel. No self respecting garage door installer will put a slide lock on an overhead door that has an opener attached. With the opener in place and the arm attached there isn't a person alive that can get the door open without wrecking a panel or two, and at that point they would just do that in the first place to get in. Plus slide locks are the easiest to get open of any of the overhead door locking systems. The only way they are secure is if you put a bolt and nut or padlock through the hole in the end of the slide with it through the rail.

[crash330]

Originally Posted by Bydand

Burn up the drive belt and toast the top panel. No self respecting garage door installer will put a slide lock on an overhead door that has an opener attached. With the opener in place and the arm attached there isn't a person alive that can get the door open without wrecking a panel or two, and at that point they would just do that in the first place to get in. Plus slide locks are the easiest to get open of any of the overhead door locking systems. The only way they are secure is if you put a bolt and nut or padlock through the hole in the end of the slide with it through the rail.

I have a slide lock on the inside and have never had a problem. I just leave out the front door if we happen to lose power.

[Bydand]

A lot of people have slide locks on their overhead door with an opener. I was just saying that an installer usually will never put one on a door he knows is getting on opener, too many times you come back to replace a top panel. A slide lock is VERY easy to get by if that is the only security on an overhead door. After putting in thousands of overhead doors, I can open a door "Locked" by just a slide lock in WELL under 30 seconds 90% of the time. Unless it has something through the hole at the end of the slide to prevent it from going back through the opening in the track.

[Machinist]

How about getting a garage door opener with battery back up?

[texdav]

I always have a slide lock on a garage door with a opoener. If the electricity goes out'detach from the opener and lock with the slide lock.Never had a p[roblem.P_ersonaloly a outsdide lock is so easy to defeat that even kids cut them in two seconds. every slide I hace seen hav a hole for lock or even a clip inside the door.