Garage Door Openers

A garage door opener is a remote electrically powered motor system that opens and closes garage doors. Most garage door openers are controlled by switches on the garage wall and by remote controls carried in the garaged vehicle. When shopping for garage door openers, you'll find a large selection of products from Genie, Liftmaster, Stanley, Multicode, Allstar, Carper, Skylink, and Sears Craftsman, which represent the leading brands of garage door openers. Once seen as a luxury, a garage door opener is now a standard convenience and virtually all newer homes are built with garage door openers. In terms of mechanics, screw-drive garage door openers are powerful and have the smallest number of moving parts, screw-drive garage door openers are also the most dependable and maintenance-free. Quality screw-drive models are almost as quiet as belt-driven units, and are most often recommended by reviewers.