Your garage door and its opener are designed to manage this tension safely but be sure not to do anything that feels risky or that seems outside of normal operation.
Open garage door from outside power outage.
If your garage door was initially equipped with a side lock you can use it to lock the door instead of reengaging the garage door trolley.
During a power outage you must manually open and close the garage door.
Now using this method you can open them from both inside and outside.
Make sure to remove any source of power from the garage door.
Unplug the opener and remove any battery that is connected to the garage door.
Open a locked garage door from the outside.
6 what to do once the power is restored.
Disengaging and reengaging your automatic garage door opener should be simple and straightforward tasks that allow you to use your door even in the case of a power outage.
When the power comes back on be sure to disable it before reconnecting the door opener trolley.
An alternative method to releasing the door mechanism.
After experiencing a power outage it may be necessary to reconnect your garage door opener.
If you re locked out when the power is out and the garage is your main way of accessing the home it may be possible to release the lever from the outside.
Opening your garage door from the outside.
Because the garage door requires electricity in order to open and close with ease this is something that can be shut down due to an electric failure in the event of a storm or other common power outage cause.
An emergency release cord on the garage door arm opens the trolley to allow you to disengage the garage door from the opener.
Once the door opener trolley is reengaged make sure everything.
It s important to get familiar with the layout of the garage door opener spring mechanism in non emergency situations.