Garage doors are no more the regular roll-top ones, which need to be pushed up by hand. Today, garage door openers are offered with different accessories to make opening easier. Regardless of how heavy the garage door, it can be fitted with the right type of opener. These openers make sure utmost safety & security for garages under any conditions. They are also offered with several options and in various designs to suit the exact requirements of the user. The best thing is, they can be installed within one hour by a professional garage door expert.

Different Types Of Garage Door Opener:

Genie, Chamberlain, Sears, Wayne-Dalton, Linear, and Universal (SkyLink) make some of the finest garage door openers on the market.

Garage door openers are of 2 types depending on the use: residential & commercial. The main models are: Trolley, Jackshift, Hoist and the Slide models. Whereas Trolley openers are employed for standard lifting on sectional doors, Jackshift is employed for grilles, rolling doors and shutters. Hoist operators are identical to Jackshifts but they’re also suitable for heavy duty industrial doors. The slide door openers are meant for single & bi-parting slide doors and also for fire doors.

There are several different garage door openers on the market:

Belt drive: This opener is not as noisy as the chain drive. They can be installed in a garage that is below or next to the home.

Chain drive: This one is the cheapest & one most commonly used. It is quite easy to install this device because it is basically a metal chain connected to the motor of the opener. You can activate it with a remote control or switch.

Screw drive: This is an automatic garage door opener. A motor called direct driver operates it. The overhead door is lifted with the assistance of a threaded steel rod. It moves when the motor is switched on using no belts or chains so there’s no noise at all. It also has more speed compared to the other two types of garage door openers making it more efficient.

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