Garage Door Garage Door Sensor Installation Taylorsville, UT

Garage Door Garage Door Sensor Installation Taylorsville, UT

In Taylorsville, every garage door sensor installation starts with the local picture — dry conditions year-round with big seasonal swings — scorching summers, cold winters, and frequent wind-driven dust. We choose hardware that survives Utah's semi-arid interior, not whatever's cheapest on the shelf.

Ask any Taylorsville tech and they'll tell you the climate decides what fails. Dry conditions year-round with big seasonal swings — scorching summers, cold winters, and frequent wind-driven dust brings rapid day-to-night temperature swings that loosen hardware over time, dust storms that pack debris into tracks and photo-eye sensors, and extreme summer heat that bakes and warps lightweight steel panels, year after year.

Run down the service log for Taylorsville and the same repairs repeat: overheated opener motors straining against binding doors, dried, cracked bottom seals that let dust into the garage, heat-warped panels on west-facing steel doors, and cold-snapped springs after hard winter freezes. We carry every part needed to close them out in one trip.

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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