Garage Door Garage Door Sensor Installation Coconut Creek, FL

Garage Door Garage Door Sensor Installation Coconut Creek, FL

We tailor garage door sensor installation to Coconut Creek's housing and climate. With mostly suburban single-family homes with attached garages, alongside pockets of older in-town housing and a hot, humid tropical climate — warm temperatures year-round, heavy rain, salt-laden air, and a long storm season, the durable choice is rarely the cheapest part — and we'll explain why.

Because Coconut Creek has a hot, humid tropical climate — warm temperatures year-round, heavy rain, salt-laden air, and a long storm season, the doors here age differently than inland or coastal homes elsewhere. The usual culprits are constant humidity that swells wood doors and rusts steel hardware, tropical downpours that drive moisture into tracks and seals, and relentless UV and salt that degrade rubber weatherstripping — exactly what our techs come prepared for.

We've fixed thousands of doors around Broward County, and the pattern holds in Coconut Creek: storm-driven water and debris in the tracks, swollen wood doors that drag and stick in the humidity, degraded weatherstripping from constant UV and salt, and corroded bottom brackets on older coastal doors. None of it should leave you without a working garage for more than a day.

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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