How To Disable Automatic Garage Door

Just like the old days.

How to disable automatic garage door.

If you have an automatic garage door then you have to disconnect the door sensors. Then i can manually lift it up and exit the garage just like i did when i was a little kid and we didn t have an automatic garage door opener. Sensors are a critical safety feature but can prevent an automatic garage door from working properly. Even without windows the task is fairly easy and can be done just on feel and knowing the mid point of your garage where the release cord is located.

Luckily you can set most automatic garage doors to a manual mode to bypass the sensors. It s very easy to defeat an automatic garage door opener and break into a garage especially when you have garage door windows that enable a thief to see exactly what they re doing. This becomes necessary when there is a power failure or for some reason you lose your remote. Licensed garage door installation companies will either remove these devices or disable them in some way.

The first thing you need to do is stop the power supply for the garage door. Disconnect the emergency release cord. Going old school will get you added garage security but at the cost of convenience. All electronic or automatic garage doors have a bypass that will allow you to open it manually.

Forget the automatic garage door opener. You will still be able to use the doors by manually opening or closing it. Please make sure that if your garage door has a manual locking device that it has been properly disabled. Disconnect the garage door opener and use a manual latch to lock the door.

If your sensors or garage door motor is blinking or your door doesn t close it s a sign you could have faulty sensors. Getting out of the garage wasn t a huge issue.