What to Look for in a Garage Door Opener

Two things to know when choosing a garage door opener.

Commercial or DIY(Do It Yourself)

Sounds simple, but what we are really talking about is quality. If you are looking for a long lasting garage door opener you immediately limit your choices in Sacramento. Why? Because you are not going to find one at your local hardware or big box store.

Sure there are great DIY models available, and frankly, most garage door companies will tell you either to pick one up at Home Depot or Lowes and they will install it. Or, they’ll just go ahead and purchase one from one of these stores and install it for you.

Abel Garage Door is different! We only sell commercial grade, professional quality garage door openers. Why? Because we back all of our work and we hate call backs. If you’re on a tight budget, we will help you to select the best value garage door opener from one of the big box stores and we will install it for you, while saving you money.

Here are a couple of things to look for when shopping for a garage door opener:

Quiet Functions
Chain-driven openers make more noise than the belt-driven ones. Since you are already willing to invest in this technology, why not go all out and go for belt-driven ones. The price difference is not really that great. Also, there are some integrated with durable belts to help it function for long years.

Can Detect Obstruction
It depends on how it can do it but it basically needs to detect if it is about to crash into something. Garage doors are heavy so it can cause problems and mishaps when it does not have a sensor. Companies use light beams to detect if something is obstructing its way and immediately opens up again.

½ Horsepower Or More
This motor power can typically hold average garage doors. Some still need to have a separate tool kit in order for it to work seamlessly on heavier doors. But basically, one integrated with this horsepower is already ideal as it is.

Keyless Wireless Pad
If you want total convenience, you have to get one with a keyless wireless pad. The good news is, there are lots of companies that offer wireless pads that can receive transmission from your garage even if it is made by a different manufacturing company.

Pick someone that is keyless and can let you change your code frequently so there would be no problem with radio scanner interference that may leak your code to burglars.

And if you need our input, feel free to give us a call, or send us an email, and we’ll get back to you ASAP.

Garage Door Openers

Back in the day, a garage was separate from your home where you had to go outside, lift the garage door open with a handle at the bottom of the door, get in your car, drive out, stop the car, and then go back to pull it shut with a long cord that hung from the top of the door. Jump ahead to today, where garages are entire rooms, heated, decorated, attached to the home and remote control accessed.

Gone are the days of manually opening the garage door. Remote control garage door openers have been around for a while, but keep getting perfected. A simple device such as this, makes our lives so much more convenient. As we pull up to our homes, we can start opening the garage from the top of the street, so it is already open when we arrive, to pull right in. Abel Garage Doors has been providing garage door openers since 1981.

With products ranging from replacement remote control garage door openers to wireless and wiredkeypads, drivers can find any part they need. When using any remote control product, we want reliability. What good is it to us, or how much convenience does it offer, if it only works some of the time? When choosing Garage Door Openers.com stocks major brands such as Genie, Sears Craftsman, Stanley, Linear, Multicode, Chamberlain, Liftmaster, Allister, Pulsar, Skylink or other major brands specific to your product. With low costs and same day installation 95% of the time, customers are ensured a long lasting product, delivered quickly and without hassle.

Garage door openers are either belt drive, chain driven or direct drive with an average speed of 7 inches/drop per second. There are faster openers that open at double the speed – 14 inches/drop per second. All automatic garage door openers are mandated to contain a sensor beam to detect a person or object in the way of a closing garage door, which then causes the door to stop losing and reverse back to open. They are also required to have a manual emergency release cord, a time reversing feature, automatic lights and a force adjustment feature. Safety is an important aspect to anything that automatically closes or opens, and a garage door is no exception.

With remote control garage door openers, it is important to have a rolling radio signal code to prevent thieves from capturing the code and breaking in. The ease of opening the garage should not be an invitation for burglar to come in. When approaching home, do open your garage door too soon and when you are not in sight of the garage. Look around the area and garage before pulling in and look in your rear view mirror as you come to a stop. Keep the door to your home from inside the garage locked. And, before you close the garage door, look around the car on both sides to make sure an intruder has not entered the garage undetected behind you. These are safety precautions everyone should be aware of to protect their home and family.

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Cropped Picture of Old Garage Door

Need a Face Lift … For Your Garage Door?

We have GREAT NEWS! We can change the look of your garage door for pennies, instead of paying the “Big Bucks” for the cost of a new garage door.

We recently complete a garage door rennovation for a home in Citrus Heights. The original door had a single window, which didn’t give much light to the garage. By removing the top panel of the garage door, we were able to retrofit the panel with the addition of 5 new windows. We were able to complete this upgrade the very same day.

The homeowner put a fresh coat of paint on the door and wall la … the home had an entire new look at a fraction of the cost.

You too can take advantage of this incredible savings by calling Abel Garage Door today for your free estimate over the phone.

New Windows Added For A Fraction Of The Cost Of New