Garage Door Garage Door Sensor Installation Florida Gulf Coast University, FL

Garage Door Garage Door Sensor Installation Florida Gulf Coast University, FL

We tailor garage door sensor installation to Florida Gulf Coast University's housing and climate. With predominantly single-family homes with attached garages, plus a core of older in-town residences and year-round heat and humidity, frequent tropical downpours, and salt-tinged moisture that never lets metal fully dry, the durable choice is rarely the cheapest part — and we'll explain why.

Because Florida Gulf Coast University has year-round heat and humidity, frequent tropical downpours, and salt-tinged moisture that never lets metal fully dry, 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, salt spray on coastal homes that pits galvanized parts, and storm-season wind that stresses panels and bottom seals — exactly what our techs come prepared for.

We've fixed thousands of doors around Lee County, and the pattern holds in Florida Gulf Coast University: rusted track hardware and seized rollers near the water, degraded weatherstripping from constant UV and salt, swollen wood doors that drag and stick in the humidity, and intermittent sensors fouled by morning damp. 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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