We sell, service and install all major brands of garage door openers, including the PDS-4700 - simply the quietest and best built door opener on the market. If you suspect a problem with your Allstar, Chamberlain, Hormann, Genie, LiftMaster, Linear, Marantec, Raynor, Sears, Stanley, Wanye Dalton or any other brand of garage door opener, call the garage door opener professionals at Precision Door Service. Our certifed technicians are trained to repair any brand of door opener.

If you are looking to purchase a new garage door opener and have it professionally installed, call the location nearest you for service today! Here are some things to consider when purchasing a new opener.

First of all, there are three major types of garage door openers. They are:

Belt Drive

Belt drive garage door openers offer ultra-quiet, long lasting performance. The fiber-reinforced belt eliminates noise associated with chain and screw drive openers. The direct current (dc) motor operates smoothly and quietly. This unit slows down for starts and stops. The security codes for the controllers automatically change each time the system is activated and never repeats. This prevents would-be intruders from gaining access to your code. The belt drive is considered to be the best opener available.

Screw Drive

Screw drive garage door opener uses a lifting mechanism that moves along a threaded steel rod. They are powerful units and because they have few moving parts, they require the least maintenance. This is generally the slowest moving of the three types of openers and is not as quiet as the belt drive units. However, the latest screw drive models feature a plastic lined track which increases opening speed while reducing the noise level associated with metal to metal contact.

Chain Drive

Chain drive garage door openers use a metal chain to guide the door up and down along its tracks. Chain drive systems are the most common and usually the least expensive. They are the noisiest of the three types of openers because they use a metal chain along a metal trolley in order to guide your garage door.

Some other things to consider are:

Safety First

If your opener was installed prior to 1993, you may be missing out on a great safety feature that is now required on all U.S. and Canadian openers manufactured since that time – photoelectric eyes or some other device that provides equivalent protection against entrapment.

Photoelectric eyes – mounted about six inches above the floor – cast an invisible beam across the door opening. If a door is closing and, for example, a child or pet were running underneath the door, they would “break” the beam, causing the door to automatically reverse.

Because your garage door is the heaviest and largest moving part of your home, a new opener with entrapment protection makes a great deal of sense, particularly if you have small children. (Note – It’s important, too, to teach children that the garage door system is not a plaything.)

We can help you choose the system that makes sense for your needs. Precision Door Service technicians are also fully trained to install and test the system for optimum performance and safe operation.

Key to the Castle

Many folks don’t carry a house key anymore. Why? Many find it easier to enter their homes through the garage door, using a remote control or an external keypad. These devices have become the new “house keys” for many homeowners. These keypads are especially popular with “latchkey kids” – kids who come home to an empty house. Millions of children come home every day and enter their homes using an exterior garage door keypad. In fact, one survey shows that 33 percent of parents whose homes have external keypads say that the keypad is the number one way for children to enter the homes.

“Latchkey kids are now keypad kids,” said Chris Long, editor of Door & Operator Industry, an industry magazine.

“Keypad use has more than doubled in the past 10 years,” said Tom Wadsworth, editor of Door & Access Systems, another magazine for the garage door industry. “Convenience is the driving factor behind this trend – no more worries about lost or stolen keys.”

The new fingerprint-activated keyless entry pads have created a whole new level of convenience. Now, you don’t even need to memorize an entry code. Convenience is literally at your fingertip.

You’ve Always Got the Power

Entrapment protection and keypads are great, you may say – but how do we open and close the garage door when a storm rolls through and knocks out the power?

Today’s openers won’t keep you waiting outside in the rain, or force you to manually disengage the opener and lift the door by hand. A popular accessory sold with new openers is a battery back-up system that allows you to use your garage door opener 24/7, regardless of any loss of power to your home.

Speaking of power, chances are you have a surge protector in your home to safeguard your computer from voltage spikes. Surge protectors are also available to shield your garage door opener as well, keeping your door operating system running and protecting your investment.

If You Can Dream It ... It’s probably available. Garage door opener accessories abound. Would you like your garage door opener to switch on lights in your home as you’re pulling up the driveway? Or alert you if you left the garage door open? It’s all now possible with new garage door accessories. You can even make a fashion statement with your garage door remote by customizing it to match your car’s interior.