Garage Door Safety Huntington Beach CA

If your garage door is 10 years old or older, you may need a new one or an added entrapment protection system to keep your family and visitors out of harms way.

by Broderick Perkins
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Deadline Newsroom - Even garages get their day, well, actually 30 of them.

June is Garage Door Safety Month, but that doesn't mean you should relegate one month to the topic.

The idea is to give a month of concentrated attention to fact that the garage door is likely the largest moving object in the home, it's typically used every day and can be potentially lethal, especially to small kids. It always needs attention.

Since January 1993, the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) has required that all garage door openers have an external entrapment protection system. This typically is some electronic eye or sensor that will trigger the door to brake and reverse itself before it hits anything detected in its path.

It prevents accidental entrapment, injury or death.

Many older garage doors are quaint fixtures providing good architectural form, but their function may allow them to reverse only after a collision -- and that can be quite a hard crash -- or they don't reverse at all. If your garage door is more than 10 years old, consider upgrading, says the CPSC, and replace pre-1982 garage door openers that do not reverse. ...

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