Today, when I went out for my walk, it started raining so I returned to the house to get my rain coat. I found the garage door would not open. The way it behaved, I guessed it was the same issue...it was. Unfortunately, the keys to the garage and the house were in the garage, which I could not get into. I had to call Morgan and ask to borrow his key to my garage. This got me into the garage and sure enough, the power door lock was not retracting fully.
Last year, while the lock on the middle door failed, they had to order a replacement. I asked the technician to move the lock from the east door over to the middle door so I could use the middle door. When the replacement came in, they put it on the east door. So, the lock that failed today was not the one installed last year, but was one of the originals installed back in 2015.
I looked up ordering one and installing it myself. I found I could buy one for about $75. I then went out to see if there was any reason I could not install it. If so, then I would again move the one on the east door over to the middle door and order a new one for the east door. The only issue I could see with respect to removing the old lock was getting the lock screws off. I came to the conclusion I could not get these off. Therefore, I called Overhead Door, told them my story and asked if they could order a new one and have someone come out to install. They said they would but it would take seven to ten days for the new one to arrive.
