I use "garage butler". It closes the garage door automatically (has 3, 10, 30, 45, 60 min timer). http://garage-butler.garage-door-opener-parts.com
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leaving the garage door open - solution for forgetful kids
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NAPPY
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When my daughter gives me attitude, I turn her phone off. Don't have to track her down to take it. When she realizes that it is off, she corrects her attitude and apologizes.
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lakeroadster
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I use "garage butler". It closes the garage door automatically (has 3, 10, 30, 45, 60 min timer). http://garage-butler.garage-door-opener-parts.com
$60 Bucks well spent. Thanks for the tip. You'd think this would be standard issue programming for every door opener?
Much better than something that calls your phone.... it merely closes the door.
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If your kids forget to close the garage door have them grounded for the day. Have them be in their bedroom for the day. Take away there cell phones, video games, movie and TV for the day. That will teach them a lesson real quickly!
If they forget to close the door again. Have them grounded for 2 days now. Still take away there stuff for 2 days.
Do this
No kids at home. My garage is 50' away from the house and is my shop. Wife and I battle over it because she "USED" to have a key and an opener before I came home for lunch and found the door wide open for over 4 hours! I was amazed nothing was missing. At a different time I myself left to go back to work, hit the close button saw the door coming down and drove away only to come back and find it open! I guess something blew across the sensor and reopened right before it completely closed. Now I don't drive away until she hits bottom and stays there. I hide a key in the house just in case she ever really needed to get it there.
I like that garage butler! Going to get one.
I like that garage butler! Going to get one.
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dslabuda
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For the OP: I think this is a great idea. My daughter remembers that daddy wants the door closed when there's no one out there. My son is still too little to reach the button and my wife is a lost cause. I still can't even get her to reliably lock her car at night--despite it being broke into a few times. I just stopped keeping anything of mine in there after losing my ipod, fifty bucks, etc. I'm seriously going to have to look at getting one of these.
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cspcrx
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my liftmaster 8500 has a TTC Timer-To-Close feature that will automatically close the door. It can be set for 1,5 and 10 minutes. May be as simple as changing the door opener to one with this feature. 1 minute would not be much time to have issues with theft. You can also override or disable it if your working outside and want to leave it open.
stimpy
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Me and my Old man think alike and I would be putting a bike rack or shed outside to put there bikes in , my step brothers were famous for using the garage door as a front door to the house ( and the house door was right next to it ) , my DAd finally put in a locking switch and hardwired the opener into it so it couldn't be opened without a key ( they were not smart enough to use the release pull like I did but I knew to close it after me ) . solved the problem quickly as they refused to lock up there stuff in the shed , and it disapeared ... when they got there new bikes the next summer , the shed door was locked all the time ..
Coolabah
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Im still doing the "hey, you lost your privileges..."
I live in the middle of nowhere town of 700 people....were everyone leaves their doors unlocked, keys in their cars etc. Granted, Im not doing THAT.....but Im not worried about the door left open for awhile.
I totally missed this post somehow- I used to live in a place like that and the only reason you needed to close the garage door at all was to keep the wombats, possums and bilbys out at night ! No wonder your kids are confused as to why they need to close the door at all : ) ... however your solution seems just the thing for you.
RobSmith
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how old are your kids....they have a growing brain and responsibility is low on their list of priorities ... ( watch some "close call skateboard" vids on youtube) they obviously don't have a priority on self preservation either.