Pry Garage Door Open

Garage door locked from the outside.

Pry garage door open.

Unplug the automatic door opener. When you open a garage door by hand make sure to stay safe. Ever forget your keys to the house or even lost your garage door remote. These ladders will help keep the garage door open when you manage to prop the door open all the way.

These openers use a threaded rod to push and pull a trolley that lifts and lowers your garage door with ease. Unplugging the garage door opener before you try to manually open or reconnect your garage door will keep you safe. The trolley moves along the chain drive the long track attached to the ceiling when the garage door is opening or closing attached via a metal bar to the inside top of the garage door. You would obviously need the key for this but it would release the garage door without resorting to prying it with a hanger or another similar hack.

If you do not have an entrance door to your garage either to the interior of your house or the exterior there should be a key based garage door release on the outside of your garage. Get two crowbars or pry. In order to do it properly and safely you can follow these steps to open your garage door with a broken spring. On either side of the garage door place two 6 foot ladders.