Garage Door Hear Click And Not Open

When the door is lowered the spring winds up tightly creating a pulling force that helps lift the door up.

Garage door hear click and not open.

No movement of drive chain and sprocket. The next step is to attempt to open your garage door manually. Use a screwdriver to tighten the wire. This will determine if the issue is connected to the door itself or the opener.

Check the door s electric eye. Can t forcibly move drive chain either. Many garage doors have a powerful torsion spring located horizontally above the door. A power outage or surge particularly one that results from a storm may either cause a temporary malfunction or permanently damage the circuit board.

In this video i ll show you the issue with a garage door opener that makes noise but won t move. If so and it is a chamberlain sears or liftmaster then the gear assembly inside is damaged. A faulty circuit board will cause the garage door opener to make clicking sounds. If it is a genie then the plastic adapter between the motor and the screw is stripped.

Shut off the power to the garage door opener. Without any warning the garage door will not open. If you click your remote and hear the garage door opener s motor running but the door won t open the first thing you should do is check to see that the manual release isn t engaged. Turn the power back on and the door should open and close normally.

Also the opener may work sometimes but on other occasions it does not respond. Detach the opener by pulling the emergency handle downward. Usually located towards the front of your garage the manual release is that brightly colored cord hanging down within easy reach.