Garage Door Safety Features

Our safety features include.

Garage door safety features.

Ensure you understand your garage door s safety features and how to maintain your product to keep it safe for years to come. If it detects an obstacle the door stops closing and automatically reverses to the open position. Clopay is committed to making the safest and most secure garage doors on the market. A utomatic garage door openers are a great convenience.

Consult the owner s manual and learn how to use the garage door s emergency release feature. Do not let children play with a garage door remote controls. Consumer products safety commission. Make sure the garage door opener control button is out of the reach of small children.

If it doesn t have it checked. If any of the safety features are not operating properly unplug the garage door opener. Home garage door safety. Garage door safety is an essential quality for all doors.

Clopay s patented safe t bracket cannot under normal circumstances be removed while the garage door is. The auto reverse feature is one of the most crucial garage door opener safety features. Visually inspect the garage door each month. Many safety features have been fitted to our doors so that no injuries occur.

Clopay s residential garage doors include grip handles and step plates for safe opening and closing. An incorrectly adjusted garage door opener and sensor can cause damage to the garage door motor lift mechanism your house or worse a person or pet. The consumer product safety commission commission or cpsc is issuing a final rule amending the regulations for the safety standard for automatic residential garage door operators to reflect changes made by underwriters laboratories inc. You want to know you and your family are safe.

It works as follows. Consumer product safety commission. The garage door should not be. If you have any questions or concerns about the safety of your garage door please don t hesitate to contact overhead door company of atlanta.

Ul in the entrapment protection provisions. Garage door safety features since 1990 an average of 20 000 people each year have been treated in hospital emergency rooms for injuries related to garage doors. But they are also potentially deadly. A few minutes every six months or so will.

When the door hits the towels it should reverse. Your garage door is the largest and heaviest moving part on your home. To test a garage door opener place a roll of paper towels under the door and lower it. Once a year you should test that those features are working properly.