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Whats the best garage door opener????
Anyone can tell me where to buy a genie garage door opener with good
price? I'm in GTA. Thanks. Bill Rubin wrote: In , (Andrew Hume 9234-81373 0112710) writes: i just installed new garage door openers (genie 9550's from builders square) and while they are quiet, the noise they make is dominated by the noise (mostly transmitted by conduction) of the door itself. andrew hume p.s. i do like the genie, and particularly like the fact that a single remote can control both doors independently. (can do 3 actually.) I just had a couple of Sears openers installed and while they aren't silent they are definitely quieter than the 20+ year old models they replaced. The guy who installed the openers said I should have replaced the doors first (I am planning to, but they are on order) because the old doors and tracks will not do good things for the new openers. It turns out that one door is in worse shape than the other, so I won't use the 2nd one until it's replaced (just as well, I don't generally open it anyway). Also, I'm not sure that completely silent openers are an improvement. One of the old openers had a bad habit of opening on its own, generally at 11:30 at night (I tried changing the code but it still opened so I just unplugged it. The guy who installed the new openers said that sometimes it can be due to aircraft? Dunno). In any event, I heard the door opening at 11:30 and went to check it out. If I had not heard it opening, I would have ended up with the door open all night. I did want to say that the new Sears 3 function transmitters can also open 3 doors independently. In fact, even the new wireless outside keypad can control 2 (maybe more) different doors with different codes. I thought that was pretty impressive. It's also relatively easy to reprogram the remotes, you just push a program button on the opener and then push the button on the remote and the opener learns that remote. You can also erase all of the codes. This is a vast improvement from the old dip switch deal! I am probably going to end up reprogramming them because the installer left me with the mini-remote that I got as a bonus for one of the doors programmed to the wrong opener, plus for simplicity I will probably program the large button on all 3 of the full size remotes to be the first door and the middle button (smaller) to be the 2nd door. That way I don't have to wonder which opener I am using. PS I don't really need all 3 full size remotes, I would be willing to trade one for an indoor panel with the light and lock buttons (one of the openers only came with a little doorbell button to open/close, I had to take that to get the mini-remote as part of the package). -- Bill |
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