June is Garage Door Safety Month
Make sure you’re not sacrificing home safety for convenience this month, and inspect your home’s biggest moving object during Garage Door Safety Month. Follow these tips to help ensure that your family is safe from garage door accidents.
- Keep controls out of reach: Hide garage door controls in a place where children cannot access them. And don’t leave them in your car where parking attendants or others can access them and compromise your home security.
- Test it: Each month, check the door’s reversing mechanism by placing a roll of paper towels in its path. If the mechanism doesn’t reverse the door’s direction as soon as it touches the paper towels, immediately contact a qualified professional to repair your door. Unplug or avoid operating the door until it is repaired.
- Unplug it while you’re away: Either unplug the opening unit or use a wall security switch made especially for use while you’re away on vacation.
