I felt like doing some market research on what garage door opener parts fail and give people the most trouble.  So I went right to the source.  I went to the main garage door company in the city that actually installs and services them.

I went over to Pioneer Door here in town who is the dealer for Overhead door and asked the residential sales manager what is the most common problem that people generally call in for.  I asked him this at nine o’clock in the morning and I could tell that he was not expecting this but I thought for a moment and said “people kicking or damaging the garage photo sensor.”

Apparently he gets calls all the time because someone’s garage door will not go up and they cannot figure out why.  It just stopped working.  So they schedule a service call to get it fixed.  Well the service technician finds out that the photo sensor was damaged in some way.  How does it happen?  A person can accidentally kick it, hit it while taking out the garage, or bump into it with something including a vehicle.  When that happens the garage door will not open, obviously.

An easy problem to fix.  A lot of the time the sensor is just out of adjustment and you just have to realign it.  Other times you are going to have a purchase a brand new part.  In any case doing both of those things is cheaper than paying for a service call and buying a whole new garage door opener sensor.  Where I live a service call is actually free but in many places it can be closer to $100.

While I was there I noticed a magazine called International Door Association.  I had no idea that there was an association, and one that published a magazine, but there is.  They give all sorts of good advice on their website.  I did find out some very interesting from their website.  Apparently the federal government  is offering financial incentives to homeowners to buy qualifying insulated garage doors. Under the stimulus package   signed by President Obama on Feb, 17, 2009, tax credits for energy-efficient home improvements have been extended and increased significantly. That means that adding a new garage door in 2009 or 2010 can save you money by helping to lower home energy consumption and costs, and it will help pay for itself this year through the tax credit incentive.  Definitely something to check out!!

I got a subscription so I will keep you posted on any new events that are happening or any new information I find relating to maintaining, replacing, or purchasing garage door opener parts for your home or business.

Your garage takes up a lot of heat in your house.  Anyone who owns one will tell you right off the bat that they take forever to get warm.  And its your garage where you could be loosing a lot of heat in your house.  The DOE Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy states that the most leakage (31%) occurs through the walls, floors, ceilings, and air ducks (15%).  Your garage was most likely not built with premium insulation.  Talk about an energy hog!

As far as your garage goes I am a firm believer that the topic of insulation is a very important topic.  This is really important for me personally because have a huge garage that I have to heat and I do that via a waste oil boiler that I purchased three years ago that I fuel with the oil from my oil change business.  We have long winters where I live so I want to have the most minimal amount of heat leakage as humanly possible so I do not run out of oil (we don’t do a lot of oil changes during the winter).

Okay so hot air rises and where does it go?  The building envelope: the roof, walls, doors, and windows that enclose your garage.  You need to make sure that those components are airtight to make it energy efficient.  You want to close as many holes as possible.  The need to build or get built shafts made from plywood and foam weatherstripping  and plug the holes with them.  You can also use the spray foam.  That’s what I did.  I used urethane.  Stuff is excellent.  I spray foamed my whole attic above the garage.  I can heat it now with minimum heat even at cold temperatures.

You have to uncover all the hidden holes in your garage.  There are most likey more than you think. You can plus small holes with fire barrier sealant.  Remember to seal all the holes in your ducks.

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This was one of my perfect ideas. Some of you pay a lot of attention to door repair. I’m going to start pounding the pulpit in a minute. It is difficult to put together allister garage door parts. Do not the circumstances justify garage door opener parts?. Perhaps what I have is a liking material to garage door opener parts.

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Just how important is this. It’s only going to help out allister garage door parts more in the long run.

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When you need parts you generally need to know what parts you are looking for.  Is it a track?  Is it a bearing?  If it is a bearing what type of bearing do you need.  There are many out there.  You need to know what type of garage door you have.  Many people do not know the brand of the garage door they have.  It could be a Stanly Garage Door, Genie, Overhead, Craftsman, ect.  My point is that you have to know what you are dealing with before you go to the store or online.  Otherwise you are going to be blindly looking for parts you either don’t need, may not exist any longer, or the wrong part all together and when you  buy a part on the internet it is usually harder to take back.

Once you know what part you need you need to know where to get it.  I have highlighted many sites which you can find garage door opener parts in earlier posts so you can look there if you please.  As I stated you can go to a department store like Home Depot or Lowes or Aces Hardware and find the parts you need but they are going to cost you more.  When you go online they are going to be considerably less but the only problem is that a) you have to wait and b)if you get the wrong part its going to be harder to return it.  If you know the exact piece that you want then maybe online is the way to go.  But I am not going to specifically tell you to do one or the other.  Some have worked both ways.  The question is how quick do you want it and how much trouble are you willing to take on to get it at the best price.

Be carefull of a lot of “universal garage parts.”  A lot of universal parts that I have bought have not fit.  Genie makes a lot of these and I have had to take them back.

Last the advice I am going to leave you with is don’t get the cheapest part.  It will break on you and you will be looking for that same part again in the not so distant future.  You do not have to pick the most expensive one because a lot of the times you are just paying for the name but I usually go with the middle of the road.  The middle price usually works the best for me.  If part A costs $5 part B costs $10 and part C costs $20 I will usually go with part B.  Not too cheap and not too expensive.  Hope this helps and good luck!

No matter what residents do, their clickers aren’t opening up their garages.

“We tried using it different ways getting it closer to the garage just different angles and positions and we tried changing batteries,” explained resident Taylor Anderson.

It isn’t just happening to the Anderson family, but to more than two dozen other residents near Welby Drive in the Tarrington neighborhood.

Residents say their clickers stopped working around Christmas Eve.

One family even got locked out of their home for a couple hours because of it.

Right now most of the garage doors will only open by the wall button, and some will open with clicker inside the garage, but once you step outside it’s dead again.

Some residents believe the disconnection could be due to the military taking over garage frequencies in 2004, but the Aamelia Overhead Doors Company that installed most of the garages door openers in the neighborhood says it changed its frequency long ago.

They plan to come out to figure out the issue, but a spokesperson believes someone in the neighborhood may have installed something that’s now messing up everyone’s frequency.

You can also read about a strange case involving garages by reading the Garage Doors Affected by Military Base post.

Stop.  Your impatience can turn a bad situation worse.  Please do not go to Sears thinking you are going to get a great deal.  Anywhere you go, no matter where you are, you are going to pay outrageous rates for garage door opener parts.  I can promise you that. A garage door chain that will cost you $250.00 at your department store, like Sears, will cost you $170.00 online.  Thats a $70.00 savings for one garage door opener part(s).

Shop around.  Yes, you are going to have to wait 3-4 days for shipping.  Trust me its worth the money.  A friend of mine had a garage door opener repairs business and I used to help him.  He taught me a lot of things.  He made a fortune.  He didn’t rip anyone off but the mark up on garage door parts is huge.  Its expected.  Everyone pays.  The key is to maintain your garage door parts and order online for good deals when something does go wrong.  Till next time. People know that when someone has their garage door broken they want to fix it as soon as possible.  They just want the problem solved, no matter what the cost.

You can find prices for garage door opener parts that are sometimes half the price of retail stores. I reccommend you click on the Garage Door Parts Website if you want to learn about a site where you can find almost anything.