Garage Door Garage Door Sensor Installation Merlin, OR

Garage Door Garage Door Sensor Installation Merlin, OR

We tailor garage door sensor installation to Merlin's housing and climate. With mainly suburban houses with attached two-car garages, mixed with some older central-neighborhood homes and a cool, wet maritime climate — abundant rainfall, frequent fog, and damp, salt-tinged onshore wind much of the year, the durable choice is rarely the cheapest part — and we'll explain why.

Ask any Merlin tech and they'll tell you the climate decides what fails. A cool, wet maritime climate — abundant rainfall, frequent fog, and damp, salt-tinged onshore wind much of the year brings morning fog condensation that beads on cold metal tracks, moss and rot on shaded, north-facing doors, and high humidity that seizes rollers and hinges, year after year.

Merlin homeowners usually call us about one of a few things: corroded hinges seized by constant damp, fastener rot loosening the door assembly, warped, swollen wood doors from constant damp, and moss-fouled, stiff rollers on shaded doors. We diagnose the real cause — not just the symptom — before quoting a flat rate.

Photo-eye safety sensors are required by UL-325 on every garage door opener manufactured since 1993. They detect obstructions in the door's path and either reverse the door (during close) or refuse to start (when activated). When sensors are misaligned, dirty, sun-blinded, or failed, the door either refuses to close at all or — worse — closes without sensing an obstruction. Our sensor installation service replaces failed sensors, realigns drifted brackets, cleans the eye optics, and verifies auto-reverse on a real obstruction test.

Replacement eyes are brand-specific (LiftMaster has a different connector and signal pattern than Genie). We stock the major brands and most legacy models. Brackets occasionally need replacement when corrosion has degraded them or impact has bent them. Bracket alignment is critical — eyes that are slightly off-aim trigger intermittent close failures that drive homeowners crazy.

Every visit ends with an obstruction test: a 1.5-inch (3.8 cm) tall object placed under the door at three positions across the opening. The door must reverse when it touches the object. This is the UL-325 baseline — if the door doesn't pass, the install isn't complete. We document the test results on the work order.

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