Jim GM4DHJ ... pretended :
When I bought this house there was a shop type roller shutter door on the
garage....after a while the springs must have went and it is very difficult
to raise speshly since I have had this transplant...anybody recommend a nice
roller type door powered or not that would make life easier .....?

Ten years ago, so prices will have increased, but I paid around £450
for a made to measure kit, to replace an up and over which was worn
out. The new door had/has a long small diameter motor in the centre of
the roll and takes up very little room. It came with two remotes, one
in the house, one in the car.

It was a DIY install, with the kit of parts collected directly from the
door maker. It was trivially easy to install. One point that you need
to be aware of is that the processor has crashed a couple of times and
the inside the garage RCD has tripped out once, making it impossible to
open from the outside. Inside there is a manual cranking winder, though
I have never needed to use it. I do have two other people sized doors,
so was able to get in to reset it. If there is no other way in, you can
buy an extra kit, which allows the cranking to be done from outside.

The slats in the door are an alloy box section, filled with insulation.
This type of door is not that secure, access is easy if noise is not an
issue, but round here it would not be a problem, theft and break ins
are very rare. So rare I have often left doors open and unlocked and
had no concerns.

I added a wired set of control buttons in the garage and a magic eye
across the door, to inhibit it from closing on the car, or pets. I
further extended the latter with an LED, which lights up when I have
got the car just far enough in the garage, to be able to close the
door.

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Regards,
Harry (M1BYT) (L)
http://www.ukradioamateur.co.uk