If you have lost the remove that you use to lock your garage door, here are two steps you should take when looking for a garage remote replacement:

Get the remote replaced as quickly as possible

As soon as you realise that your remote has gone missing, you should find a company in your area that offers garage remote replacement services and arrange for them to provide you with a new remote.

The reason for this is as follows; if they happen to be going through a very busy period, the company that provides this service may take a few days to deliver your remote.

If your garage is currently locked and you have no means of accessing its interior without the remote, and you wait a few days before contacting the aforementioned company, this might mean that you will have to do without the items that are stored in there (such as your tools, gardening equipment, bicycles, etc.) for quite a while.

This could be a problem if you need these items for specific activities that you had planned to do during this period of time.

As such, if you require any of the goods that are currently housed inside your inaccessible garage, it's important to get in touch with this company immediately so that you can get the remote and gain access to your garage as soon as possible.

Take steps to protect your property from criminals if the door is unlocked

If your garage was unlocked when you lost the remote and it does not have a manual lock function, it is important to take steps to protect your property from criminals whilst you wait for the remote to be delivered.

The reason for this is as follows; one of the first things criminals often do after deciding to target a particular property is to check to see if they can gain entry to the garage, as the locks on garage doors are often easier to break than the locks on standard residential doors.

If a criminal does this and they realise that your garage is unlocked, they could end up gaining access not only to all of the valuables you keep in this area but could also potentially get into your main home (if your garage shares a wall with your house and features an entryway that leads into it).

If this situation occurs and you haven't taken any security precautions, you could end up losing many high-value possessions.

As such, it is vital to do what you can to keep your home safe whilst you wait for the remote to arrive. There are two ways to do this; firstly, you should remove any valuable items from the garage and put them into your house.

Secondly, if the garage features a doorway that leads to your house, you may want to install an extra sliding bolt lock on the side of the door that is inside your main house; these locks can be purchased at any DIY store and can be installed, using a drill, in a matter of minutes.