Garage door opener

Can't get enough of ALL-GLASS garages? They're all over social media, you've seen them when out at restaurants, and even TV home renovation shows use them.

If you own a company or provide a service and have been doing so for a number of years, you likely have customers who stop by your location to talk to you, to purchase replacement parts, or to check out what products you have available.

There’s going to come a time in most of our lives when we’ll need to go shopping for a new automatic garage door opener. If your time has come, how do you know which of the different types you should choose. Easy, you choose the one that comes with the most advantages! Once you start looking you’ll find there are different drive mechanisms: chain-drive, belt-drive, screw-drive, and our newest model, the Jackshaft.

If you’re wondering whether or not a battery backup for your garage door opener is a smart idea, the answer is yes, it definitely is. This is particularly true if you deal with power outages on a regular basis.

Thinking about upgrading your existing electric garage door opener? If yours is old and outdated, there are many new features and capabilities you can take advantage of. For instance, did you know that you can now use your smartphone to open and close the garage door? That’s just one of the features you can benefit from.

You probably do not spend too much time thinking about your garage door. It opens when you need it to open and it closes when you need it to close. At least most of the time. Most people never think about their doors beyond this, at least not until something goes wrong. However, it might be time that you upgraded your garage door.

Do you need a new garage door system? Don’t know how to choose an opener? Rather than running out to the store without information, read on and learn how to select a great garage door opener.

As Sean Bean once said, winter is coming. And while many are scrambling to buy their winter woolens and sports gear, others are prepping their homes for snow and frost and burst pipes. An often overlooked part of winter prep is the garage door, which can allow drafts to enter the house and drive up heating and energy bills if it is not properly maintained. Once you ensure your garage door is ready and able to withstand the arctic blast that’s coming your way, you can be warm and toasty with a properly insulated house with every opening covered, while everyone else is pretending to have fun making snowmen in their living rooms.

You left home this morning in a bigger hurry than usual. When you came back a few hours later, you realized your garage door was still wide open!

As there are a number of different brands of garage door openers on the market, in this article, we’re only going to talk about how to reprogram the most popular ones: Chamberlain, LiftMaster and Craftsman. We will also limit ourselves to door openers that have been manufactured since 1993. Since that time, garage door openers have been equipped with “rotating code” technology, which means that the code between the remote and the receiver changes each time you use it.