The replacement or adjustment of most garage door springs should only be attempted and completed by experienced professionals. The springs, cables, and bottom fixtures are under extreme loads and can and may cause severe and critical injuries without the proper tools, training, and knowledge to make this type of repair. In addition, the safe and proper operation of your garage door and garage door opener is very dependent on the garage door springs being properly calculated and balanced for the size and weight of your particular door. It is our position that these type of repairs should never be attempted by anyone other than by trained and experienced garage door professional technicians!!!

Since 1993 all residential garage door openers manufactured for distribution within the United States have been required to meet the UL-325 safety standard. In addition it is also unlawful to service existing openers in some areas unless you are bringing the opener into compliance with UL-325. Most manufacturers are using photo-cells to comply with some of these provisions and the location of the photo-cell is a condition of the safety standard. The photo-cells are to be located from 3"-5" off of the garage floor to prevent serious injuries or even death to people, especially children, and are not to be located above this height to protect vehicles or to protect other objects. Disconnection or the malfunction of the photo-cells will inhibit the closing of the door with any device except for maintaining constant pressure on the wall button. For your friends and families safety, we highly recommend that your garage door opener be installed and maintained by professionals that are thoroughly trained in the proper installation and servicing of these devices and are familiar with your local code requirements.

Whenever a garage door has an electric garage door opener the manual pull down rope should be completely removed from the door and jamb to prevent the rope from becoming entangled with persons or objects. In addition, to prevent any damage to the door and/or opener, any outside lock should be disabled in such a manner that the door can not be accidentally locked while the door opener is still connected.

There are numerous other garage door and garage door opener safety items that every homeowner should heed. Please click on the above link for further product safety tips from Underwriters Laboratories.