Often a homeowner wonders which garage door opener worksbest.
The answer is, it depends!
If you were asked which is the best laundry detergent, or which is the best pasta sauce, you wouldn’t even think twice about your answer. There are items we purchase and use so often that it’s easy for us to try new things and quickly determine what is best, what we like, and what we will continually use. But it’s not offten that we need to shop for a garage door opener. In fact, you probably will only do it once in your life, maybe twice if you move to a new home. So how can you go about deciding what is best?.
There are three types of garage door openers to think about, and each is meant for a type of lifestyle. It’s really up to you to determine.
What’s the Best Garage Door Opener?
Don’t panic, this brief summary will aid you inevaluating the facts about each.
1. Chain Drives - These use a metal chain to run the garage door on its track. Chain drives are the mosttypical and are often the most affordable; and yet they are also the noisiest
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So the question is, do you care about noise? If your garage is detached or you want to know what time yourchildren are coming home at night this might be a good choice. But if you’d rather nosound, maybe because there are bedrooms above the garage, the chain drive might not be for you.
Summary: Cheapest but noisiest.Good option if you have a not attachedgarage or don’t care about noise.
2. Belt Drives - Considered the best opener available. Belt drives, like chain drives, are veryreliable but unlike their noisy brethren they run nearly silent, thanks to their rubber belt! So if your garage is attached to the house or you just hate the loud noise involved with garage doors, this is most certainly a good choice garage or dislike loud noise,consider choosing this one}.Keep in mind though that belt drives are usually moreexpensive than chain drives, so there is a tradeoff . Precision Garage Door highly recommends these.
Summary: Practically silent but more costly. Best if you have an attached garage or don’t like noise.
3. Screw Drives - These are not recommended because they just don’t hold up well under drastic temperature changes. If you live in an area with hot summers or cold winters you will run into some problems. Screw drives work by using a threaded steel rod attached to a lifting device. Slow moving and noisy, screw drives are moderately priced compared to the other options
Summary: Best if you live in a region with constant climate. Noisy and slow moving.
Ok, Just How Loud Are These Things? How often do they require garage door repair?
You can read these openers all you want, but you have tohear to them for yourself. You can find a nearby showroom to check them out.
