Why won't my garage door close all the way in Franklin?
Something is stopping the door before the slab does, or the down limit is set to where the floor used to be. Work bottom-up: feel along the bottom seal for a lip that has gone hard, clear grit and leaf litter out of both bottom tracks, wipe the photo eye lenses, and only then look at the limit on the opener head. In a garage with trees over it, debris and a filmed lens account for more of these than any part failure.
Run a hand along the bottom seal
A rubber or vinyl astragal that has hardened stops squashing, so the last inch of travel meets something rigid and the opener reads it as an obstruction. Cracked, glazed, or flattened on one side means it is finished. Winter here crosses freezing and comes back repeatedly rather than staying cold, and a seal that has been frozen to the slab a few times takes a set. While you are down there, check the seal still sits in its retainer across the whole width, because a corner that has pulled out stands proud of the rest.
Pollen, leaf litter and a lens you cannot see through
Heavy tree cover means the bottom tracks fill with grit and leaf fragments, and a wedge of that under one roller stops a door with an inch to go. Spring pollen films over the photo eye lenses until the beam reads weak and the opener stops trusting it. Both take a rag and five minutes. Check the brackets are still square while you are there, because a bag of soil or a bike leaned against one moves the beam without breaking anything.
Out toward Grassland, up Hillsboro Road, the same pollen that clouds a photo eye also settles thick on tree cover near Del Rio Pike, and homes backing onto Fieldstone Farms pick up leaf litter off the bridle paths that drifts into the bracket track after any windy week. Franklin's mix of open fields and mature trees means this is a seasonal call, not a one-time fix, and the licensed pros we connect you with will clear the lens and recheck the alignment in the same visit.
The limit was set to a door that moved differently
The down limit was matched to the door on the day the opener went in. Springs relax, cables settle, hinge holes widen, and the door now stops a little differently while the setting stays where it was. On most heads that is a screw or a pair of buttons and two minutes of work. It belongs last, though: winding the limit down to force a door past real resistance hides the fault and loads the opener against it.
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