When you think of hazards in your home that might be a danger to you or your children, you tend to think of things like perhaps noxious substances under your dink, or maybe appliances with blades on them, like blenders, or hot ones like irons.
But the biggest moving part of your home is also the most dangerous part: your garage door. Especially older models with rust or damage can be particularly hazardous. They are not created with the sam standards as more modern models are, and they don't have automatic reversal on the garage door opener mechanism.
To test your garage door and see if it has the reversing mechanism, you can place a roll of toilet paper or something underneath the area where you expect the door to shit. If you have the feature, the door will reverse before it hits the paper towels, regardless if they are moving. Unlike popular belief, the reversal mechanism doesn't work by motion detector.
If it doesn't work ,and instead squashes the roll, you shuld get it looked at and upgraded. Garage doors can crush a person, especially a small child, so this is definitely something oyu should invest in if you don't already have it.
When the door touches the towels, it should automatically start going up again. If it doesn’t do this, you should have it checked and probably have someone get you a new upgrade of the safety feature.
Another feature that high-tech garage doors have is the electric eye, which instead of relying on pressure to tell it when to reverse, uses lasers to detect motion in the door’s path.
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