We Installed A New Garage Door Opener
We had some bad luck with the garage door last week. By bad luck, I mean that it stopped opening and closing. It was fine in the morning when I went to work, but it wouldn’t work at all by the end of the night. I had to open and close it manually for the next few days, which was a pain because it’s a big, heavy door.
Uncle Marve came over to take a look at it, but the motor was shot. We would have to buy a new one. The sensors on the old Craftsman model were shorting out anyway, so it was time for a replacement. Marve and I went to Lowe’s and bought a Genie screw driven system, complete with two key remotes and a wireless security remote.
I didn’t realize that installing the new garage door opener would be so involved. I figured that we would just remove the box on the ceiling and pop a new one in. Because we upgraded from a chain drive to a screw drive, we had to replace everything: the box, the rail. the proximity sensors and most of the remote wiring.
The job took most of the day and one more trip to the hardware store (the bolts that keep the rail together broke). The new system works great though! Marve even wired up a new interior button so we can still open the door from inside the house. So on top of everything else that we’re doing with the house, we now have a new garage door opener.
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