Electric Garage Door - Tuscan Stuck In The Garage
Electric Garage Door - Tuscan Stuck In The Garage
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shapeshifter

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1,181 posts

246 months

Sunday 9th April 2006
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I had an electric garage door fitted last week, it was the roller shutter type not the up and over. Well today after washing the car, I pressed the button to close the door not seeing the plastic bucket at the threshold of the door. The door came down as it should with one of my smug neighbours looking on, and then the door encountered the bucket - the door did not stop it just carried on crushing the bucken until 'BANG, BUNG, CRUNCH, GRIND, BANG, the door came out of it runners and a few big plastic clips fell on the floor - IS THAT TWO GRAND DOWN THE PAN OR CAN IT BE FIXED - HAS THIS EVER HAPPENED TO ANY OF YOU GUYS BEFORE, IM IN TURMOIL!

2 sMoKiN bArReLs

31,791 posts

259 months

Sunday 9th April 2006
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I'd imagine you went pale.

falcemob

8,248 posts

260 months

Sunday 9th April 2006
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I had a similar thing with mine, although no bits fell off, the shutter came out of the runners. I wound it back to the top manually and fed the shutter back in, it all worked but the limit stops went out of sequence and it took me quite a while to work out how to re-set them. I had to wind it with the handle for a couple of days until I had time to work it all out.
Maybe they should have some sort of pressure sensors on the motor to stop this happening.
I would think yours will be easily repairable by the installers, it's just the hassle and expense that'll hurt.
Hope you get it sorted soon.
Edited: How wide is it to have cost £2K?


>> Edited by falcemob on Sunday 9th April 20:01

NCE 61

2,444 posts

305 months

Sunday 9th April 2006
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The motor for the door normally stop when any sort of resistance to close is encountered, there is normally some sort of regulations on this. When we had ours installed this feature was shown to us.

falcemob

8,248 posts

260 months

Sunday 9th April 2006
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NCE 61 said:
The motor for the door normally stop when any sort of resistance to close is encountered, there is normally some sort of regulations on this. When we had ours installed this feature was shown to us.

Mine and shapeshifter's don't.

GreenV8S

30,999 posts

308 months

Sunday 9th April 2006
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That sounds rather dangerous.

shapeshifter

Original Poster:

1,181 posts

246 months

Monday 10th April 2006
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Falcemob - its about 4m wide. I have phoned the installers, there coming out tmrw to hopefully fix it - IVE BLAMED THE WIFE!

BliarOut

72,863 posts

263 months

Monday 10th April 2006
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shapeshifter said:
IVE BLAMED THE WIFE!
Nice, I like your style

TOV1E

184 posts

246 months

Monday 10th April 2006
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2 sMoKiN bArReLs said:
I'd imagine you went pale.

falcemob

8,248 posts

260 months

Monday 10th April 2006
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shapeshifter said:
Falcemob - its about 4m wide. I have phoned the installers, there coming out tmrw to hopefully fix it - IVE BLAMED THE WIFE!

I normally blame the dogs.
BTW, Who fitted it, is it a company from the Maidstone area?

shapeshifter

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1,181 posts

246 months

Tuesday 11th April 2006
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Its repaired, all covered under the warranty - I did squirt some lemon into my wifes eyes before she opened the door to the engineers just to simulate crying - after a little optrex she will be fine!

Syko

5,006 posts

246 months

Friday 14th April 2006
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shapeshifter said:
Its repaired, all covered under the warranty - I did squirt some lemon into my wifes eyes before she opened the door to the engineers just to simulate crying - after a little optrex she will be fine!


I find that acid, or CS gas, yields a more convincing shriek.