DGS49
Diamond Member
I have lived in a townhouse for the last three years, with no problems with my automatic, remote-controlled garage door openers.
We spend the month of February in Florida, and early in the month a neighbor sent us a text telling us that our main garage door was open (she knew we were out of town). Thinking nothing of it, we told her to close the door for us and exit the house by a secret means.
Two days later, same thing, different neighbor.
So I enlisted the help of a nearby friend, getting him to actuate the lock on the door, which he did.
We got back on March 1. I unlocked the garage door and we used it as usual. Three days later, sitting in our living room, we hear the garage door opening. Now it seems to happen at totally random times, maybe once every other day. I lock it out when we go to bed and unlock it when we leave the house, but last night when we came home from bowling, it was open again.
Our garage door looks out on a big open field. The houses behind us are a good hundred yards away, and there is no "thru traffic" in our rear parking area, so I don't think it can be pranksters, or somebody else's electronic code actuating the door.
Can any of our correspondents think of a cause, other than a ghost? (I could get the house blessed by a priest, I suppose).
We spend the month of February in Florida, and early in the month a neighbor sent us a text telling us that our main garage door was open (she knew we were out of town). Thinking nothing of it, we told her to close the door for us and exit the house by a secret means.
Two days later, same thing, different neighbor.
So I enlisted the help of a nearby friend, getting him to actuate the lock on the door, which he did.
We got back on March 1. I unlocked the garage door and we used it as usual. Three days later, sitting in our living room, we hear the garage door opening. Now it seems to happen at totally random times, maybe once every other day. I lock it out when we go to bed and unlock it when we leave the house, but last night when we came home from bowling, it was open again.
Our garage door looks out on a big open field. The houses behind us are a good hundred yards away, and there is no "thru traffic" in our rear parking area, so I don't think it can be pranksters, or somebody else's electronic code actuating the door.
Can any of our correspondents think of a cause, other than a ghost? (I could get the house blessed by a priest, I suppose).
