My Garage Door Experience

Garage Doors

On the morning of April 1st, 2009 I had a rather difficult experience with my garage door. Seeing as though it was on April fool’s day, I figured my husband or someone was playing an April fool’s joke on me before I went to work. I get in my Escalade and try opening the door with my opener, and it didn’t work. It made a strange ticking noise and the light on my opener did not come on. I didn’t even bother trying to open it with the one on the wall. I just got out of my car and went to the outside and typed in my code. After I typed my code in it worked!

I was late for work, and I almost got fired and I explained to them what had happened with my garage door, and they let me off on a warning. On my lunch break, I got a hold of my husband and explained to him what had happened, and he told me to look online for reasonable repairs. I called many companies and not many of their technicians could tell me what was going on. Finally I found a company with a reasonable price to come out and take a look at it without hesitation. I immediately scheduled an appointment with them for the following day.

I came home from work that day and my Garage door still didn’t work. My husband and I were trying to find out what was going on, and we just couldn’t figure it out. The following day, the technicians came out and checked everything over. I explained the strange ticking noise and they could not figure what it was. They called their coworkers and everything and no one could figure it out. Everything was working right. The motor was working fine, the lights were working well, and the Opening system was working well.

Then it came to my surprise that the reason why the garage door wasn’t opening with the opener was because I had dropped the opener on the garage floor the night before, when I came home from work, and it resulted in killing the batteries and the opener had something rattling around in it. The technicians and my husband were laughing. I was so worried about getting to work and getting fired that I forgot about the incident of dropping the garage door opener. I didn’t have to pay for any repairs from the technicians, I just had to pay for them to come out, and a new opener of course.

That was a lesson learned for garage door repairs. I learned that I have to check every aspect of something when it’s broken before I jump to conclusions. Who would of that that I just needed new batteries and a new Garage door opener. I was expecting it to cost at least three hundred dollars for a repair, but it only came to about forty dollars including a new pack of batteries.