For a single eight- to 10-foot-wide door not made of solid wood, virtually any opener works. It needs about 12 inches between the garage-door edge and the side wall. Wall mount (also called jackshaft) installs to the left or right of the garage door.Chain- and belt-drive openers are the vast majority of the market with belt-drive gaining share as the price delta closes. Replacing a broken belt is easier than a broken chain. The unit is compact and delivers a lot of power to open doors quickly. Screw drive uses a threaded rod to move the traveler, arm and door.The chain needs to be lubricated twice a year. It’s a bad choice if bedrooms or a work-from-home office are over the garage. Chain drive is the most affordable and least quiet.A rail runs from the opener (operator in industry parlance) and a chain, belt or long steel screw moves the trolley (or traveler) and the arm that attaches to the door. Most openers hang from the garage ceiling. It’s one of the most comprehensively equipped and strongest units on sale, but also one of the most expensive. But we also look at the extra features many of these products now offer, including levels of security and connectivity.įor our initial studies, the LiftMaster 8500W was extensively tested and served as a benchmark for comparison. The fundamentals are still the same: these products will open and lower your hefty garage door thousands of times over the years, so our primary evaluation metrics center on the attributes that are most important: quiet operation, lifting capacity, power to operate heavy or double doors, material construction, noise levels, durability and user-friendly design. Today’s openers are quieter and made of more modern materials than ones installed 30 years ago, and they can do a whole lot more: communicate with your smartphone, monitor your home and garage and interface with Google Assistant or Amazon Alexa. Garage door openers used to be fairly simple and often not all that different from one another, but this is the 21st century and the era of the Internet of Things (IoT).
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