"f86sabre" (f86sabre)
02/26/2015 at 18:56 • Filed to: Garage Doors
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"f86sabre" (f86sabre)
02/26/2015 at 18:56 • Filed to: Garage Doors | 0
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Thoughts on belt versus chain versus worm drive garage door openers? I think one of ours is crapping out. It is a very old screw drive system and is very noisy. *Update* went with a Sommers Direct Drive unit. Recommended by an G+ Oppo House member and lots of good reviews and supposedly very quiet. Our bedroom is partially over the garage, so that is a plus. Full lifetime warranty as well.
whoarder is tellurium
> f86sabre
02/26/2015 at 19:05 |
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Belt drives are soooo quiet and smooth. Just keep that in mind...
Also, battery backup is a nifty idea but I know the battery we had failed in a few years (not unexpected).
HammerheadFistpunch
> f86sabre
02/26/2015 at 19:06 |
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be bought a chamberlain (home depot) belt drive thats works really well and was a decent price (garage door crapped out 1 week after we bought the house)
garagemonkee
> f86sabre
02/26/2015 at 19:11 |
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If you have the type of door that they work on (segmented doors only, I believe) I was VERY VERY happy with my Liftmaster jackshaft door opener. Way less NVH than the chain drive that was original, with the huge bonus for me that there's nothing hanging from the ceiling in the middle of the garage.
Also, way easy to install, I did it myself just fine. Can't recommend the Liftmasters enough. Srsly.
Birddog
> f86sabre
02/26/2015 at 19:19 |
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I'd go Belt Drive and spend an extra buck on it. We put a Chamberlain in at my Dad's to replace an old screw drive for his detached garage.
You could hear the old one from 30' away. Now all you hear are the rollers. He couldn't be happier.
JGrabowMSt
> f86sabre
02/26/2015 at 19:21 |
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Ive got some crazy compact cable driven garage door at work, I can ask if anyone knows what brand it is. Amazingly quiet, pretty quick to open/close, and the door is pretty well insulated. Barely any kind of chill or draft well into -11F, and the door is more than half of my "office" wall.
lone_liberal
> f86sabre
02/26/2015 at 19:23 |
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I think chains are more forgiving of alignment issues than screw drives but that's only because my parents' have had issues with two different screw drive openers and that's the only reason I can come up with. I'd assume the belts should be as forgiving with a noise vs longevity trade off against chains.
desertdog5051
> f86sabre
02/26/2015 at 19:25 |
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For what it's worth. A friend who works on GDO's told me that he hardly ever gets repair calls for chain driven.
cabarne4
> garagemonkee
02/26/2015 at 19:27 |
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After reading the original post, I had the random thought of "why are all garage door openers mounted in the middle of the ceiling, with some sort of "drive" to lift the door?"
After about 30 seconds of googling, I found the liftmaster — it makes a lot more sense to me, having a side-lifted garage door. Hell, I was even imagining a cable-lifted system that was side-mounted.
glemon
> f86sabre
02/26/2015 at 20:27 |
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I had a craftsman chain drive for year, got a belt drive five years ago or so, it is quiet and smooth and does not need to be adjusted. It cam with the battery back-up, one day I came home and the door went up really slowly, I thought, damn, something wrong with the garage door, but then figured out the power was out, DAMN, something is right with the garage door, it works with the power off, cool, it was about $200 on sale at Sears, I think it was an online special combining a couple of deals, but for a $20 or two more than a chain I got top of the line, I am all about the belt (actually don't ever think about it, it just works).
The Compromiser
> f86sabre
02/26/2015 at 22:26 |
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Mine has a button. Door goes up. Door goes down. Door goes up...