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My Deep Hate For Garage Door Safety
My heart was heavy with hate. The hate was dense like a block of lead. It was Hell-worthy hate since I was wishing the untimely death of another human being. No, that's not very Christian of me, but that was the way I felt.
Besides the whole Hell-worthiness of my hate, the only other problem was that I didn't know exactly who this human being was.
All I knew was that he or she invented the infernal safety mechanism on my garage door that keeps it from closing whenever there is any obstruction in the way of the sensor.
That sounds good in theory.
If a child happens to be playing in the way of the garage door when someone tries to close it, the lights will flash and the door will remain open.
But I don't have any kids. I don't need this safety feature, I don't want this safety feature, but I am stuck living with this safety feature. And it is drives me batty, really batty, so batty that I wish the inventor of this garage door "feature" were dead.
I have a very sensitive garage door sensor. A child need not be present for it to trigger and send the garage door back up to the ceiling. From my experience a cobweb or possibly a dust mite is enough to warn the garage door of impending doom if it dares to proceed any further and sends it fleeing back to a wide-open position.
So the other evening, after I parked our SUV I pressed the big white button that closes the door. It rattled down to a foot above the concrete, stopped, and went back to the ceiling. I growled and grabbed a broom that I keep by the door for this specific reason.
I swept the bottom of the door and the sensors on either side. I pressed the button again. The door came down to just a foot above the concrete, then went right back up. The hate in my heart started to build.
I swept again. Same result. The hate grew exponentially as I repeated the process a half-dozen times. Finally, the door closed. I never saw a single obstruction that could be the "smoking gun" to explain why the door wasn't closing. But then, it's tough to see a cobweb or a dust mite in the day, much less at twilight.
I don't know if all garage door sensors are as sensitive as mine, but I have a feeling they might be since this is the second door opener we've had on this garage and the first one was just as much of a pain.
I wouldn't have a problem with this feature if the sensitivity could somehow be adjusted. While I would not want a child -- if one were ever present -- to get pinned beneath my garage door, I'm all for squishing any wayward cobwebs or dust mites or especially the inventor of this infernal safety mechanism
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