7 Garage Door Safety Tips
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Garage doors injure thousands of people every year. Help keep your family safe with these tips.
Your garage door is the largest, heaviest moving object in your home. You don’t want to mess with it. Every year, hospital emergency departments treat more than 15,000 injuries from garage doors nationwide, according to the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission’s National Electronic Injury Surveillance System (NEISS).
These tips, along with regular maintenance, will help keep you safe.
1. Check the safety sensors.
The garage door opener’s safety sensors are attached to the rails on which the garage door rides, about 6 inches off the ground. Their job is to reverse the direction of a closing garage door if a person or animal walks under a closing garage door.
To test, push the control button to start closing the garage door. Before the door closes, place a broom or similar object in front of one of the sensors. Blocking the beam should make the door stop immediately and reverse. If the door doesn’t reverse, call a garage door opener professional to inspect the garage door opener and make any needed repairs or adjustments.
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