Cardale garage door operation

Flashes

Does anyone else have a garage door that, in an emergency eg a power cut, cannot be manually opened? My garage door has a handle including a key lock that seems to be superfluous. There is no cord at the back of the key barrel that would disengage the door mechanism and allow manual operation. I would have thought that it would be mandatory to have such a way of opening the door, particularly as there is no other access to the garage.

Comments would be appreciated.

cranford

You dont say what type of door you have but I assume it is normally opened by a remote.
You can find information and user manuals under "help" on the Cardale web site.
Example: Under a warning for a Autoglide smart entry system the manual says "If the garage has no service entrance door then an exterior release kit MUST be fitted. This accessory allows manual operation of the garage door from outside
in case of power failure (See page 19)."
I hope this helps.

Le_Kirk

Mine does BUT you have to be inside the garage to be able to use it. It is a grab handle that disengages the mechanism from the drive and allows it to be lifted and lowered. We are able to access the garage through a side door. Not sure what we would do without the side door.

cranford

The example manual above does say "exterior" release kit which must be different from an internal release handle. I too have a release handle on my Horman but I have a side door also.

Flashes

Thanks. My garage door does have an internal release cord, but that is of no use if there is no other access or, as in my case, the remote does not work. It appears that whoever was employed to install the garages on my small estate ignored the instruction about an exterior kit that will open the door manually in the case of an emergency. I may have to break open the wooden panels of the door to gain access.!!!

One other thought. I take it that turning off the power to the garage would not help the situation?

molerat

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fyVcuATIYVk
https://www.ebay.co.uk/sch/i.html?_from=R40&_sacat=0&_nkw=garage+door+external+release&_sop=15

Flashes

Thanks for the links. Of course, the mechanism shown is the sort that SHOULD have been installed when my garage and door were built 16 years ago!! The installers ignored the instructions for a single access garage in the manual provided.