How To Disable Automatic Garage Door

This becomes necessary when there is a power failure or for some reason you lose your remote.

How to disable automatic garage 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. You will still be able to use the doors by manually opening or closing it. 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. 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.

Disconnect the garage door opener and use a manual latch to lock the door. Sensors are a critical safety feature but can prevent an automatic garage door from working properly. 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. The first thing you need to do is stop the power supply for the garage door.

Just like the old days. Going old school will get you added garage security but at the cost of convenience. In my case you simply pull on the red lever which removes the motor and gear from the track. Disconnect the emergency release cord.

Luckily you can set most automatic garage doors to a manual mode to bypass the sensors. I know how to disable the automatic garage door opener. All electronic or automatic garage doors have a bypass that will allow you to open it manually. This means that you have to get out of the car when you get home unlock the door and lift it yourself.

Forget the automatic garage door opener. If you have an automatic garage door then you have to disconnect the door sensors.