Question:
My overhead garage door opens by the usual hand-held "clicker", but
there's also a box affixed to the garage with push-buttons numbered 1
through 0. There's no "people door", so at present I can't walk up to
the garage and open it, but I have to go into the house for the
clicker. I'd like to keep a house key in the garage -- in case I lock
myself out I could punch in the garage combination and get to the
house key that way.
At closing last August, the seller was not present but the seller's
agent promised to get me the combination to the garage door. Despite
repeated reminders that information is not forthcoming, and the
seller has left the country. Any idea how I can find out the
combination, or reset it?
Answer:
One more thought to consider, Stan, if your current opener is quite old.
Back in the old days, openers could be programmed for up to maybe 256 or 512
different codes, but the code always stayed the same. Given one of those,
the possibility of a neighbor's opener causing interference--or a determined
hacker trying to break into your garage didn't have too much work to do to
get your garage door opened since it wouldn't take that long to go through
every conceivable combination.
The newer openers have millions of possible combinations and the code
changes after every opening/closing, so it's virtually impossible to have a
neighbor/thief conflict. If your opener is of the ancient variety, it may be
worth looking into having the whole opener system replaced with a new one.
Overkill, maybe--but that will solve your current problem
