| Many people rely on their garage doors | | | | issue, he or she should reconnect the release |
| frequently, as they use them everyday to leave | | | | before leaving your house. If you made the |
| for work and come home afterward. This means | | | | repairs yourself, you will now be faced with |
| that once it breaks, it is a big inconvenience. In | | | | reconnecting the cord. Fortunately, this is |
| the best case, it breaks and you have to | | | | something most people can do on their own. |
| manually open and close it until you can get | | | | You should first press the main button to run the |
| professional garage door repair, or get time to do | | | | door electrically as normal. As it opens, you need |
| it on your own. In the worst case, however, you | | | | to observe where the cord makes contact with |
| may be stuck inside or outside the area until it | | | | the opener chain. You will likely see a very small |
| begins working again. Find out how to solve this | | | | aperture where the lock needs to snap in once |
| issue from start to finish. | | | | again, so you should push it in when the cord and |
| If you are stuck because the covering will not | | | | the opener chain line up correctly. You should then |
| open, you have an option. You should simply pull | | | | open or close the door once again to make sure |
| the emergency release, which is a cord that | | | | it works right after the garage door repair is |
| hangs down from the opener itself. It is usually | | | | finished. |
| red so that it is easily visible. Pulling this release will | | | | You might not think to reconnect the emergency |
| make it possible to manually open and close the | | | | release once it has been pulled, but it is important |
| covering until you can get someone to your | | | | to do so in case the opener breaks again. This |
| house to perform garage door repair. | | | | could be sometime far in the future, and if you |
| Once you have solved the issue of getting in and | | | | simply forget to reconnect it, there will likely be |
| out, and perhaps gotten the issue fixed, you | | | | no way to open or shut your covering manually. |
| might wonder how to reconnect the emergency | | | | You will be glad you learned how to do this |
| shutoff cord. It is necessary to do so in order to | | | | procedure when the main opener mechanism |
| start using the item again electrically after it has | | | | breaks once again, so it is best to get it done |
| been repaired. If a repair person fixed the original | | | | now. |