So you’ve taken extra precaution to secure your vehicles with care in a closed garage. Now, it’s time to invest in a quality automatic garage door opener. Who wants to get in and out of the garage with difficulty, anyway? Whether you are building a new home garage or just replacing the one you’ve had for years, there are lots of options available in the market today that will suit your needs. Here’s American Veteran Garage Door’s opener buying guide.
What to Look for in a Garage Door Opener
If you are ready to purchase and install a new garage door opener, it’s important to consider all the factors that we list in our garage door opener buying guide. One is the size of your door and how often you use it. You also need to consider if there is a bedroom or a living room near the garage. An important choice to make is if you want to control and monitor the garage remotely. And finally, is if you want access to the garage if the power goes out. Here are the features you should look for a garage door opener.
1. Low noise
Nobody likes a noisy garage door, especially if you are very sensitive to sound and have a living space or bedroom adjacent to your garage. A belt-driven or direct-driven model is your best choice.
2. Remote-control reliability
Look for a dual-frequency garage door opener which automatically switches between two frequencies to reduce interference.
3. Rolling-code security technology
Don’t let burglars guess at your opener’s code. This technology selects a new, nonrepeating access code from billions of possibilities every time you use the remote control.
4. Battery backup
This feature will allow you to keep using your garage door opener during power outages¸, but it’s a rare feature that only higher-end models have.
5. Overhead lights
Lights are standard equipment on all the garage door openers. Look for ones you can control independently of the door’s opening or closing.
6. Internet connectivity
Nowadays, you can check the status of your garage door whether it is open or closed and be able to open or close it remotely, thanks to internet connectivity.