Thanksgiving disaster averted! Jim informed me this am that our 25 yr old garage door opener had decided to only open the door a couple feet. Both cars in the garage, restaurant reservations hung in the balance. I went to the garage to investigate and to get the make/model to "do my own research" on Ye Ol' Internet. I noticed a handle on…
Thanksgiving disaster averted! Jim informed me this am that our 25 yr old garage door opener had decided to only open the door a couple feet. Both cars in the garage, restaurant reservations hung in the balance. I went to the garage to investigate and to get the make/model to "do my own research" on Ye Ol' Internet. I noticed a handle on a string hanging down from the center thingy and wondered if that was the manual way to get the door up gave it a tug down; seemed to move the center slide thing a bit, but no luck. Just in case, I crossed my fingers and used the remote door opener in my car. I did not say Open Sesame, but for some reason the door was hauled up and across the ceiling. Then I did something fairly unusual for me. I came to the conclusion that it might be a good idea to back my car out to the driveway! Sure enough, I closed the door with the car remote. Several attempts to open it again basically had the door giving me the equivalent of the "LiftMaster" middle finger and now only opens up enough to welcome in various critters, snakes being the most likely to try to venture in. I guess I can proudly state that I saved Turkey Day 2024. FWIW, the restaurant has a turkey special today, but I'm probably going to have scallops because that's the way I roll.
Thanksgiving disaster averted! Jim informed me this am that our 25 yr old garage door opener had decided to only open the door a couple feet. Both cars in the garage, restaurant reservations hung in the balance. I went to the garage to investigate and to get the make/model to "do my own research" on Ye Ol' Internet. I noticed a handle on a string hanging down from the center thingy and wondered if that was the manual way to get the door up gave it a tug down; seemed to move the center slide thing a bit, but no luck. Just in case, I crossed my fingers and used the remote door opener in my car. I did not say Open Sesame, but for some reason the door was hauled up and across the ceiling. Then I did something fairly unusual for me. I came to the conclusion that it might be a good idea to back my car out to the driveway! Sure enough, I closed the door with the car remote. Several attempts to open it again basically had the door giving me the equivalent of the "LiftMaster" middle finger and now only opens up enough to welcome in various critters, snakes being the most likely to try to venture in. I guess I can proudly state that I saved Turkey Day 2024. FWIW, the restaurant has a turkey special today, but I'm probably going to have scallops because that's the way I roll.
Good on you.