Someone Drove Into My Garage Door

So i m a college student nebraska and made one of the most careless mistakes of my life today.

Someone drove into my garage door.

I was parked maybe a foot infront of it and honestly didn t think anything of it. If you have an electric garage door opener it can most likely lift your door completely. We get calls about once a week from someone who backed into their garage says jon jacobs owner of sound door services in renton washington. How garage door openers work.

The first electric garage door opener was introduced in 1926 but. Your insurance may cover the damage. If someone else hits your garage door their auto insurance should cover the damage. This is the sport that can get hit most by cars and other obstacles.

Garage door professionals say homeowners driving or backing into their garage doors happens all the time. If you accidentally hit your garage door with your car don t panic. The device he s created dubbed the opensesame can open a garage door using a brute force attack in less than 10 seconds. The most common type of garage door accident is when damage is done to the bottom half of the door.

It s important that you understand that this may happen to you as well. But whether your homeowners insurance or car insurance pays for it depends on a variety of factors. I lightly tapped the garage. On average standard garage door openers are strong enough to pull over 350 lb or 160.

I was up at 4 30 for a conference had slept maybe 2 hours and accidentally put my car in drive instead of reverse. Lately you can see a lot of articles and reports circulating on the web that mentions the fact that a garage door equipped with an electric door opener can be opened with a hack kid toy that s right.