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Garage Door Records

Every service call filed before you leave the site.

Every door you have serviced with its spring size, opener and warranty dates on file, so a callback starts with the right spring on the truck.

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Free for 25 doors, no card. See a sample garage door service record

Free tool: next due date

Enter the date and the next one appears here.

Your customer sets this interval; no rule fixes one.

The rules, with where each one came from.

Each date this app counts and each check it runs on a save is listed here with its source and the day we last read it. Where a rule lives in a paid standard, we cite it and keep the same facts in our own layout; we never copy the standard's text or forms.

5

sourced rules in this trade, each read on or after Oct 29, 2026.

Dates it counts

  1. Next tune-up: the interval set in tune-up every (months) from the last tune-up.Set per customer; no rule fixes this interval.
    Your contract

What it checks when you save

  1. The federal safety rule for automatic garage door openers covers every residential opener made on or after January 1, 1993.From 16 CFR 1211.1 Effective date (Cornell LII), checked Oct 29, 2026.
    For reference
  2. A residential opener built to the rule starts reversing a closing door within 2 seconds of touching something in its path.From 16 CFR 1211.7 Inherent primary entrapment protection (Cornell LII), checked Oct 29, 2026.
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  3. Besides reversing on contact, an opener for an overhead door either closes only while someone holds the button within sight of the door, connects to an outside safety device such as photo eyes, or has a second protection built in.From 16 CFR 1211.6 General entrapment protection requirements (Cornell LII), checked Oct 29, 2026.
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  4. When something breaks the beam of the opener's photo eyes, a closing door reverses, goes back up and stops at fully open.From 16 CFR 1211.8 Secondary entrapment protection requirements (Cornell LII), checked Oct 29, 2026.
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  5. The opener checks its safety device on every close. If the device is missing or faulty, a closing overhead door opens again and an open one goes no more than 1 foot down, or the opener closes only while someone holds the button in sight of the door.From 16 CFR 1211.8 Secondary entrapment protection requirements (Cornell LII), checked Oct 29, 2026.
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Asked, and answered from the rule.

Which garage door openers fall under the federal entrapment-protection rule?

  1. The federal safety rule for automatic garage door openers covers every residential opener made on or after January 1, 1993.From 16 CFR 1211.1 Effective date (Cornell LII), checked Oct 29, 2026.

How fast must a garage door opener reverse when it hits something?

  1. A residential opener built to the rule starts reversing a closing door within 2 seconds of touching something in its path.From 16 CFR 1211.7 Inherent primary entrapment protection (Cornell LII), checked Oct 29, 2026.

What should an opener do when the photo eyes are blocked or missing?

  1. Besides reversing on contact, an opener for an overhead door either closes only while someone holds the button within sight of the door, connects to an outside safety device such as photo eyes, or has a second protection built in.From 16 CFR 1211.6 General entrapment protection requirements (Cornell LII), checked Oct 29, 2026.
  2. When something breaks the beam of the opener's photo eyes, a closing door reverses, goes back up and stops at fully open.From 16 CFR 1211.8 Secondary entrapment protection requirements (Cornell LII), checked Oct 29, 2026.
  3. The opener checks its safety device on every close. If the device is missing or faulty, a closing overhead door opens again and an open one goes no more than 1 foot down, or the opener closes only while someone holds the button in sight of the door.From 16 CFR 1211.8 Secondary entrapment protection requirements (Cornell LII), checked Oct 29, 2026.

What it keeps for you.

Door

Door, Type, Use, Width, Height, and more.

What your client receives.

The garage door service record, as the app issues it the moment the service call is saved: signed, dated and frozen, with what is next due. This one is filled with invented records so you can read it before you sign up.

Building owners read every report filed to them in one binder, free.

Sample Inspection Co. (fictional) · Garage Door Records

Garage door service record

Avery Lund

Door

Door
Avery Lund
Type
Sectional
Use
Residential
Width
1 ft

and 26 more fields

Service call

Scheduled
Apr 2, 2026
Completed
Apr 2, 2026
Status
Completed

Service call

Springs: no gaps, rust or stretchPass
Cables: no fraying, and seated on the drumsPass
Rollers turn; hinges and brackets tightPass
Tracks plumb, fastened and free of dentsPass
With the opener released, the door holds halfway up without driftingPass
Closing door reverses when it touches an object on the floorPass

and 6 more on the full report

Photos

No photos on file.

Line items

No quote lines on file.

Signature

Not signed in the app; signed on paper if at all.

Next due

Next tune-upNov 11, 2026Set by your contract

A recordkeeping aid. It does not certify compliance and is not legal advice.

Every name, date and number on this sample is invented.

What Garage Door Records costs.

Free

$0
  • 25 doors
  • 1 person

Solo

$9 a monthFounders price; list $19
  • 750 doors
  • 2 people

Crew

$24 a monthFounders price; list $49
  • 4,000 doors
  • 10 people

Company

$49 a monthFounders price; list $99
  • 20,000 doors
  • 25 people

All-Access

$74 a monthFounders price; list $149
  • 20,000 doors
  • 25 people
  • The same limits in every trade
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