In this blog entry, the professional Charleston garage opener installation team here at A1 Garage Door Charleston will detail the main different types of garage doors commonly available on the market today.
Chain Drive Garage Openers
- The most widely used type of garage opener
- Uses a metal chain to move garage doors up and down their tracks
- Highly durable
- Highly affordable
- Ideal for standard sized doors
- Works well with heavy garage doors
- Make more noise than other garage door openers
- Highly cost effective
- Ideal choice for reliability and budget friendliness
Direct Drive Garage Door openers
- Highly innovative
- Involves the motor directly traveling across a fixed rail or chain
- The motor unit will be kept inside a mobile trolley that moves along gears
- This reduces how many moving parts the garage opener has compared to other garage opener models
- More expensive than standard chain drive garage openers
- Highly durable and low maintenance
- Ideal for tall or heavy garage doors
- Longer general lifespan
Belt Drive Garage Openers
- Quietest garage opener
- Uses a rubber belt to lift and lower the door instead of a chain or screw device
- Ideal for attached garages or homes with bedrooms above or next to garages
- More expensive than chain drive or screw drive garage openers
- Highly reliable and smoothly operating
- Requires less maintenance than chain drive garage openers due to less metal on metal friction
Smart Garage Door Openers
- Allows for high levels of convenience and control
- Allows you to control garage doors from any location using a smartphone application
- Ideal for homeowners who want to open or close garage doors remotely
- Provides real time notifications when garages are opened or closed
- Allows you to schedule automatic operation
- Can be integrated with smart home systems like Alexa or Google Assistant
- Comes with encrypted communication and other security features that ensure that only authorized devices can open the garage door