Openers
Openers & Access
Chain drives, belt drives, wall-mounted units and the sensors that watch the doorway. This group covers keeping them working and bringing older setups up to today's quieter, safer standard.
Which one do I need?
- The door goes up perfectly.Garage Door Opener Diagnosis and Repair
- The motor runs, you can hear it working, but the door never moves.Chain-Drive Opener Repair
- There is a new squeal from the front of the rail, up near the header, on every cycle.Belt-Drive Opener Repair
- You swapped the old wooden door for a heavier insulated steel one, and the twenty-year-old opener that was kept has never settled.Garage Door Opener Replacement
- The small light on one of the sensors near the floor has gone dark, or it flickers when someone walks past the track.Photo-Eye Sensor Alignment or Replacement
- You bought a new remote at the hardware store, followed the little leaflet twice, and the opener light never blinked.Garage Door Remote and Keypad Programming
Openers & Access
Operators, safety sensors, controls, and access systems.
Garage Door Opener Diagnosis and Repair
The door by itself
With the door fully closed, the technician pulls the emergency release and lifts the door by hand. A healthy door rises smoothly with modest effort, holds still about a metre off the floor, and stays up when fully open. If it is heavy, drifts down, or stays put only at the top, the springs are tired or broken and the opener has been doing work it was never sized for.
Tracks, rollers, hinges, cables and drums are looked over at the same time. This check comes before any powered testing, because a door in this state is corrected on the door side first, by someone with the tools for tensioned hardware.